(Or, the happiest, funniest people in the world)
Just a short
break from all those serious, goodness.how.cerebral.can.you.get!? pieces.
More on Ashleyslips:
Here's a post about a really hot
Filipina -- the hilarious Petra Mahalimuyak (Fragrant Petra)-- whose really hot,
hyperbolized Filipina accent and super hot Filipino humor make her sooo
endearing.
Frankly, when I see my fellow
Filipinas, I often have this defiant, wicked, un-feminist thought cross my mind: That--power
issues and poverty aside--one of the reasons why the Philippines is the choice source of mail-order brides is
because, well, we Filipinas are so sexy and pretty and fun to be
around, after all. We’re the world’s topnotch trophy wives! Ha!
I mean, how often do you see get to
see an ugly Filipina, anyway? Come on, be honest. It’s kinda rare, ano?
Filipinas are among the world's most delectable women, I say.
And where else can you
get a pretty woman who will "lovingly clean your toenails with a
toothbrush?" – That’s what YES
editor-in-chief Jo-ann Q. Maglipon said in one of her 1980s articles (published
in the book Primed) on Filipina mail order brides, then just an emerging problem.
Before you accuse her of 'objectifying' women, note that before
Maglipon became the entertainment editor that she is today (and consequently, one
of the country's highest-paid editors), she was an underground activist who
fought against the Marcos dictatorship and wrote articles on slain doctor-to-the-barrioDr. Bobby de la Paz, like this:
So her toothbrush-for-toenails
comment was truly just an accurate portrayal of life as it really is: complex and
difficult, astonishing and ugly, joyful and awful, comic and tragic, trivial
and sublime—sometimes all at the same time—and always multifaceted, resisting the
black-and-white labels the religious and the righteous would like to confine
it with.
As I write this, there are hundreds of thousands of Filipina maids
deployed all over the world. Many of them will be beaten, raped. Some
will be killed. Most of them suffer milder forms of abuse, but abuse
nonetheless. But life does not stop dead because these terrible things happen.
And the spirit of the archetypical Filipina lives on, resilient, as
lighthearted and bubbly and hopeful as ever.
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