Category Archives: Race, Gender & Ethnicity

Nail Salon Stereotypes

By sindy | Published: August 29, 2009
I was looking up Platino pedicure chairs for a friend and found something amusing: the spatech website includes documentation (installation instructions, specs, etc.) on equipment and for this chair, they have non-English versions. The languages the documentation comes in? Korean and Vietnamese. While nail salons are stereotyped as being owned and run by Korean and [...]
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Is it racist?

By sindy | Published: July 9, 2009
From the Comedy Central show Tosh.0: I didn’t think a show about web videos would be interesting since I’m not a fan of “wrap-up” shows and I think it’s weird when you people use TV to talk about things from the Internet– it’s like they’re dumbing down computers and the Internet to make it more [...]
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Two Women, Two Babies, One Family

By sindy | Published: June 2, 2009
An amazing story about two women (partners) who got pregnant at the same time, using the same donor too! Two Women, Two Babies, One Family (from Real Simple) A sweet quote: At night, we started putting our bellies together so the babies could say hi and tap at each other. It was sweet. What could [...]
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