Popular Posts in the Past 15 Days

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Guest Writer
  • Say My Name: Changing my Adoptive Name – “Sitting down in a chair the other day, a funny thing happened: I turned a year older. It got me thinking about my name. Six months earlier I’d handed over some papers and a check for two-hundred dollars; just like that I became Chun-Soon Li.”
  • Asian BMI: How I Became Obese in Ten Seconds – “I showed my reading, which indicated that I was overweight, to my doctor. ‘You can’t use that reading,’ he said.  ‘You have to use the Asian BMI.’  He looked up my BMI on the Asian BMI scale.  ‘You are obese,’ he declared.“
  • Mixed Company of Yale’s “Single Asians” Isn’t Very Funny – “…my general rule is that if it’s really funny, a lot can slide me without being offensive. And guess what? This isn’t funny at all; it’s cringe-worthy and doesn’t pull off the irony and sarcasm of other parody videos. And the girl on the left is totally off.”
  • NSFW: Justine Lai Paints Herself Having Sex with US Presidents – “…every single heterosexual Asian man is wincing by his laptop because, oh hey, if the image of the Asian female against a white guy is an uncomfortable one to begin with, there she is giving head to Abraham Lincoln.”
  • Finding Religion – “With my mother’s passing this last year, we’ve been to Buddhist temple quite a bit, and we’ve also started going to a United Church of Christ. As a family I know we’ll continue to go to UCC for services, but how much do I expose [my daughter] to Buddhism, without adversely affecting her developing faith in Christ?”
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