‘Desperate Housewives’ Alienates Filipino Surgeon Fan Base

Members of the Filipino medical community are indignant with ABC after a crack aimed at their subset of a subset aired on an episode of Desperate Housewives, once believed to be television’s last bastion of cultural sensitivity.

Teri [Hatcher’s]…character told a doctor that she needed to check his diplomas just [to be sure] they didn’t come “from some med school in the Philippines.” Some believe this was a racial slur against Filipinos.

Rude! And if a television station’s fictional characters are racist, so must be its personnel. So what’s ABC going to do to prove their offices aren’t full of despicable bastards yanking their eyes into slants at the water cooler?

ABC is apparently in talks with the organization about creating more jobs for Filipino Americans and how to take action regarding the grievances of the Filipino American community.

They’re giving them jobs! Because money makes irrational outrage go away.

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Published 10/13/07 by


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