No more Delirious??

I just read somewhere that Delirious? is breaking up in 2009... Sadness. I like their music.

Pig-headed jerks who refuse to listen to reason and think they're oh-so-smart aggravate me

So, somehow I landed on an Asian-American (?) site (www.modelminority.com). There was one article about a Korean American woman who wrote a book about a KA adoptee. And the article mentioned that she (the author) is married to a white man (WM). (Btw, she is a Visiting Lecturer at Brown, and her husband is a professor at Brown.)

Then, I read the comments, and I have to say that many of them were quite... aggravating.

There were several Asian American males (AM) who started bashing the author and calling her the next "Amy Tan" (i.e., sell-out), etc. because one of her characters (the adoptee's biological mother) had an "American lover" in the '70s and the author herself is married to a WM.

When a few others responded, in so many words, that they were tired of people bashing Asian American females (AF) and calling them sell-outs (among other more vulgar things) for the fact that they marry WM, and that those people should learn to respect all AF.

Then those same people with the... annoying commentors said that they do respect AFs, they only bash those who are sell-outs. (One responded to one of them AF posters by saying, "you married some white trash that has no college education and makes half of your meager income, right?") Another said something to the effect of "I only respect AFs who love themselves and their culture."

Hello??? So, if an AF marries a WM -- regardless of whether she actually loves him or not -- that automatically makes her a sell-out? How does that work? She'd only be a sell-out of she married him as a "trophy", to elevate her social (racial) standing. Of course, whenever someone pointed this out, they would obstinately ignore it and say, "AF who marry WM are sell-outs!!1!"

Seriously, every time someone tries to argue with them (I mean, doesn't their statements vex anyone else who just might possibly stumble across and read this post?), they say stubbornly refuse to listen to reason and logic and say, "Hahaha, that's the funniest bit of BS I've ever heard!" or "Did it strike too close to home? You're probably dating a WM!" or "AMs are getting gypped, and AFs aren't doing anything to help; in fact, they're making it worse" or whatever else you can think of.

Of course, they would be playing a different tune if an AM married a WF. Then, it's the AM who are finally being recognized in society, or whatever BS they can pull from their noses.

Gah! It makes me mad.

...btw, is anyone reading this?

friggin' freshman year flashback (look at me do alliteration)

some stupid person (probably) from the stupid party across the hall pulled the fire alarm. i felt too lazy to leave, since i knew it wasn't an emergency. So I'd been listening to the high-pitched whine of the fire alarm for the past 9 minutes, and it just stopped.

idiot.

I don't understand why the font suddenly changed on me. It's really annoying me. I liked the original font, too, with this layout... T_T

on a second note, welcome back, laura!

reaction to the 2008 Olympic torch route thus far

well. i must say that china is doing a fine job of making a fool out of themselves for all the world to see, on national and international news. i mean, i've seen them do it before in Seoul Train, but really, how many people saw that, huh?

just because you don't like the fact that someone is criticizing the way your country is treating others, doesn't make it all right for you to physically attack them!

it's kind of interesting how the chinese citizenry have no ideawhat china (the gov't) is actually doing to some people. it's almost like they think that the government can do no wrong, and everything the government does is for their own interest (like the whole Three Gorges Dam business, where the gov't basically pushed people out of their homes, as well as destroying historical buildings so that they could make a dam that might do something good eventually). gah.

honestly. what is it with the anti-CNN masks? what did they expect? did they think that people would say, "oh, look, the olympics are going to take place in china. let's ignore all the human rights violations that are occurring in that country and just have fun!"?? i mean, of course people are going to use this opportunity (of china being in the spotlight) to bring injustices to the surface for people to face and confront!

seriously.

btw, i don't have problems with china in general, per se... i have these sorts of thoughts about lots of different countries, my own included.

*pictures courtesy of fresnobee.com