Q and A

Hey dozens of readers. I'm toying with the idea of doing a video post in which I answer your questions. What kind of questions? Any kind! It can be Asian American or race/gender/media related (my usual schtick) or it can be totally random and ridiculous, such as (to steal blatantly from Will Ferrell) "If you were a hot dog and you were starving, would you eat yourself?"

But of course, I can only do this if you actually submit questions. You can leave a question (anonymously if you choose) as a comment or you can send it to me in an email at antisocial.ladder@gmail.com.

Note: I may or may not be slightly drunk when I film these answers.

Bossip is Bacist, Bomophobic

I think I read Bossip strictly to get riled up. It's like watching Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly. Sometimes, I need to hear some unabashedly ignorant, racist, sexist, homophobic banter to get a sense of what we're up against and also to just fuck around with my blood pressure a bit.

As I'm sure I've said before, I read a lot of different culture-specific blogs, i.e.
Guanabee or Towleroad, and I was a big fan of Stereohyped before it was unfortunately shuttered last year. I firmly believe that minorities should keep up with the goings-on of other minorities. How else are we ever gonna organize that revolution? Kidding...

There was a time when I legitimately read Bossip because I like to be up on famous people that aren't always white, which is pretty much what dominates every other gossip blog on the web. I can't pinpoint when Bossip turned into a cultural landmine in which its writers constantly skewer black celebrities for being gay, for purportedly being gay, or for futilely denying that they're gay when we all know they're G-A-Y!

In addition to being on Homo Watch, the folks at Bossip love igniting heated battles between their commenters with their purposefully inflammatory posts on interracial dating, usually featuring famous black men and their non-black partners. I know, whatever, Asian Americans are still at each other's throats over interracial dating; hostility on the Internet is nothing new to me.

However, Bossip takes it one step further and it's a step too far. Check out their post on David Alan Grier's divorce from his wife Christine Kim which is cleverly titled:

"Me NO Love You Long Time NO MO’"

Lovely.

First, I hate to curse the dead, but fuck Stanley Kubrick. I realize that during the filming of Full Metal Jacket that he no idea that one little line uttered by a Vietnamese prostitute character would make it into the Racist Asshole zeitgeist, but hell...this phrase will haunt us forever. Oh, and fuck 2 Live Crew while we're at it.

Second, Kim is likely Korean American and likely not a prostitute, yet it doesn't seem to matter does it? She's foreign and she's a gold digger, no if's, and's, or but's. Those slanty eyes tell us everything we need to know about her! They even tell us, according to Bossip readers, that she had Grier's baby strictly to cash out with the divorce! Ah, yes, Yellow Peril does strike everywhere. In you're bed, in your bank account, everywhere.

And now my favorite part: the comments. My notes are in bold.

Bee

Bossip the title of this post is so tacky. You guys have a very diverse group of people that read this site.

Nique

@BEE
That may be so but this site is actually geared towards black ppl.If you find offense to it-maybe you should find something else that fits your views THANKS!
Nique, did you just say to be black is to be racist?

Tabby

Another black man loosing stacks….Homegirl made sure she waited until she had a baby so her money train wouldn’t end. Teehee! When will black men learn. Stick to your own kind!
Something tells me you're single, Tabby...

dfiestyone

No, it means that “Me No Need You No More” because she has her green card to stay in America now so she doesn’t need him because she will be capable to get another fool in a minute!!!!! LOL!
2 years?? That’s the longest that she could have hung in there 4?? A dayum shame, I’ll tell you!!! SMFH!!!
difestyone, egregious overuse of exclamation points does not a good argument make.

Just Me

So….I’m STILL laughing at the title!!! I think I got my laugh of the day!!
Did you also pay to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop?

missunderstood

@any who are offended by the title. Be offended @ 2 Live Crew! Bossip didn’t make that shyt up. Be offended at Mariah Carey, who last year recorded a song with the same damn name(Love you long time).
Be offended at the Asian prostitutes who use that line when they want to give you some coochie. Don’t be mad at Bossip for repeating shyt.
[sound of crickets chirping]

John D. Hater

CHINESE, JAPANESE, DIRTY KNEES, LOOK AT THESE!!!
[sound of crickets chirping]

missunderstood

@jo

Why are you on a site who is so BLATANTLY racist everyday? Go to a site where they sit and sing kumbaya. I LOVE my black people, and we are told all day long to “lighten up”, so why should I be fighting mad over an asian joke? I’m not, and never will be…
Wow. And here I've been getting fighting mad over black jokes. That sucks.

missunderstood's comment suggests that there were quite a few commenters who objected to the post. Here are some choice ones:

DaHonestTruth ~ Turn My SWAG On

*pulls out soapbox, stands on it and grabs mic*

why is it black people and black people only who get to throwing aorund insults when it appears someone is notaccpeting to another race? you don’t see this happen in any other race. no other race starts bashing their own in defense of others. no other race screams “give me unity or death” like blacks do. ever other race has the pride in their own to put no other above them. why is it that only black people get so volatile when another race is insulted? you know unity is NOTHING against pride and everytime i read some insult some black person has made against another in favor of sticking up for another race it just goes to show how sadly to black people it means more to be accepted by other races than to be proud of your own and that really sad.

other races ask for respect and keep it moving even if it means they must live among themselves. just look at all other races in this country and how well they live and grow among their own. thats how vietnamese and indians come here and within years own entire blocks and communities. blacks are the only desperate fools out there begging to be accepted by others. any study will tell you that the minute what someone else thinks of you becomes move important to yo uthan who you are and where you come from you will lose yourself, who you are and your pride everytime.

asking for respect = pride
begging for acceptance = unity with other races at the expense of your own

think about it. stop it with the bashing of your own in defense of others.

OH REALLY?

@ NIQUE

YOU ARE A MORON. SO BOSSIP HAS TO DUMB DOWN THEIR POSTS BECAUSE IT’S GEARED TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE? ARE YOU CRAZY? SO IN THAT CASE DON’T GET MAD AT THE KKK FOR HAVING WEBSITES THAT HATE ON BLACK PEOPLE, SINCE IT’S GEARED TOWARDS RACIST WHITE PEOPLE. I NEVER KNEW BOSSIP WAS GEARED TOWARDS LOW IQ FOLKS WHO ARE RACIST. THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW. YOU MUST HAVE BEEN THE REASON THEY MADE THIS WEBSITE !

Mr.K

I find the headline of this post very offensive!! How can we as black people get angry over offensive images and impressions of our people in the media when we turn around and do the same shit. Not to mention that Christine Kim is an Asian American and has never spoken like tat a day in her life.

SMH @ Bossip editors!!

Did you digest all of that? I know, it's hard. If you're ready to move on, let's look at one of Bossip's posts from the Perez/will.i.am kerfuffle. It is titled "You probably already knew this fat queer was racist."

If you remember, this is when Perez said he had considered calling will.i.am. the n-word before finally deciding on "faggot." So Bossip is ready to draw and quarter Perez for thinking racist thoughts (and for being gay, apparently), but think they're just being damn hilarious when they publish blatantly racist posts for millions of readers. What's ironic is that Bossip and Perez are cut from the same "pandering to the lowest common denominator, spreading hate, and creating baseless scandal in the name of increased site hits and ad revenue" cloth.

No wonder you two are fighting. Y'all are family!

But the time has come. Just like I stopped reading Perez Hilton (if only to maintain my own sanity), my days as a Bossip reader are over. I've had enough of my masochistic, reading-ignorant-content-just-to-get-my-ire-going tendencies. Besides, there are literally millions of mouth-breathers tapping away on the Interwebs; if I devoted energy to railing against them all, I'd have a heart attack.

I'll always save room for a little Mann Coulter and the Fox News crew, because I like to think it brings me one step closer to Jon Stewart. Other than that, I'm gonna try to keep it cool. Idiot-induced anger is known to cause premature wrinkling. And I ain't going out like that.