CANCEL MAIL ORDER FAMILY.
I don’t know if y’all know, but NBC bought the comedy called Mail Order Family. (Source)
This show apparently “follows a widowed single father who orders a mail-order bride from the Philippines to help raise his two preteen daughters”. It is supposed to be a sitcom.
And let the fucking anger commence.
1. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS UGLY. Racist? Check! HUMAN TRAFFICKING? Check! Fetishization of Asian women? Check! There is not ONE THING funny about ANY OF THESE TOPICS.
2. This is loosely based off of the writer’s life whose dad DID THIS. You can here her talk about her experience DISGUSTINGLY here. (Source) Literally, listening to this alone made me so angry. She talks about how the mail order bride her father BOUGHT wasn’t GOOD ENOUGH for her as a mother, and she defended her father through it all… HER FATHER ALSO HAS A SECOND SECRET FAMILY IN THE PHILIPPINES. Just a lot of ugly and a lot of fetishizing of Asian women. She also talked about it here in this article. (Source)
3. LET!!!!!!!!! PIN@Y!!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!! EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give them roles. SE Asians are often seen as Not Asian by white people and East Asians, and we barely see them in media. REPRESENTATION FUCKING MATTERS.
4. Jackie was terribly RACIST in trying to defend her RACIST ideas on Twitter. I don’t have the Time to pull up every ugly thing she’s said today, but… it’s just ugly.
5. CANCEL!!!! THIS!!!! SHOW!!!!
I have more thoughts, but I’m pressed for time. I made a small thread on Twitter about why this whole thing is bullshit if you want to read more.
Fuck. This. Show.
I wanna point out that this isnt an asian thing across the board. This is a pilipinx (and to an extent other se asians) issue. No one talks about the human trafficking faced by pilipinx women (and thai and cambodian) to the usa and to use this as a quirky plot device is not only disrespectful but down right irresponsible. Being sold to a white man in a new country is not sitcom
So wait, when ethnic men take a white girl into sex trafficking its a 3 movie Liam Nielson revenge series, but when white men buy a woman of color its a sitcom.
Im so fucking done
