“Then there was Kung Fu, with David Carradine, who was not Chinese. So they shouldn’t have called it Kung Fu; they should have called it Hey, That Guy’s Not Chinese.” - Margaret Cho
That was me, sorry.
I don’t really mind that the big companies don’t sell cards with gay couples on it; it gives me another reason to support my local gay-owned business.
And StarvingButStrong is correct. A blank card with a handwritten message exceeds all forms of hallmarkery in the Etiquette Sweepstakes. (A lady at the church I went to used to sell little white cards with flowers embroidered onto the front… like, with actual thread… and with blank insides. Blew anything I could have bought at the store right out of the water.)
I find it more offensive that people are incapable of using the internet or going to an ethnic store to find what they want. Maybe that’s just because I’m paid to find obscure stuff…
But to continue the hijack…
Not on every show. On Xena, many of the couples were interracial - black/white or Asian/white. Five black/white couples featured prominently. And they got hate mail. Piles of it. :smack: And when I recounted this story to one of my goth friends in grad school, she agreed with the letter-writers. It was okay for the main couple to be gay, but mixing the races was bad, bad, bad! :mad: If a ridiculously-premised syndicated TV program can create that kind of backlash, no wonder the major networks who actually have people watching are more cautious, and the greeting card companies are more conservative. Nothing says family values like the Hallmark Channel, for crying out loud.
I do admire CSI(s) for looking at the actual demographic of their location city, and trying to represent the ethnicities there, instead of a national token demographic. CSI: Miami has an actual Southerner and plenty of Hispanics (er, well, it did). CSI: New York has Italians. Maybe eventually we’ll have an Asian person other than B.D. Wong to watch.
“When I grow up, I want to be an extra on M.A.S.H. Or maybe I can play a hooker in something!” - Margaret Cho