Desperate word for Philippine Medical Professionals…
On October 2 2007, Teri Hatcher “Susan Mayer” throw a knock-out line from Desperate housewives episode that upsets Philippine Medical Professionals and even the Philippine Government made a protest against “Desperate Housewives series” for a slur made against the Filipino Doctors.
I’m sure a lot of Professional Doctors from Philippines or even Filipino people will feel insulted from this line
“can I check those diplomas because I want to make sure that they’re not from some med school in the Philippines.” -Susan Mayer
In my hopeless opinion… I think it is not Teri Hatcher who is responsible with this racial slur against Philippine Med.
hmmmm.. I don’t know who really needs to be blamed and who needs to apologize.. But I guess It’s the producer or the script writer who has a big responsibility in this discriminating act against Philippine Medical Professionals. Do we need to boycott “Desperate Housewives“?
Let me know your opinion. Rant it here…
October 4th, 2007 at 7:10 am
The Philippine consulate should sue the scriptwriter or those people behind desperate housewives. We should not blame the artist..because as we all know.. she’s just doing her job. And lastly, the filipino doctors who are from med schools here in our country continue their specialization in USA!! hahah! soooo..what’s the point of that script??????!!
October 4th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Desperate Housewives TV producers apologized already…
Here’s the link:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=94596
October 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Well, the dialogue was certainly offensive and discriminatory. Nevertheless, I don’t think the show’s writers would have written anything like it if not for all those stories about “supposed” doctors from the Philippines…doctors operating with their bare hands? C’mon…
October 4th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
A lesson learned for the TV producers who, after receiving petitions and hate letters from the Filipino-American community, finally apologized. Ergo, i would still watch it… it’s fun! hehe…
October 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Should spend more time in reviewing their script. It’s not fair for Filipinos but the artist should not be blame for that.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:15 am
Descrimination is really everywhere, that is a fact. But for this series, they could have been extra sensitive with this issue as it certainly affects the Filipino community.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Not everyone in the Philippines are watching the Desperate Housewives. This is just a propaganda in order to gain new audience offshore. They’ve succeded in gaining audience in the 4th Season premier by degrading a 3rd world country. Looking on the other side, they’ve also degraded their country. Now that the US is being replaced by Medical slaves coming from the Philippines, I think they should be more alarmed. They still need to import quality doctors and nurses.
October 13th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
That is so unfair! I think we should blame the director on this matter.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
That is so lame for the part of “desperate housewives”… They should check their scripts first… Very lame!
October 15th, 2007 at 8:39 am
it would have been more appropriate and actually funny if she had made up a name of a school like “Crazy Pete’s Mail-Order Diplomas” or something cheesy like most comedy shows normally do… coz i think it is very racist to actually name a specific country…tsk tsk tsk
October 18th, 2007 at 4:09 am
This is an old issue from desperate housewives but I found it so lame from their part. Be careful next time.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 am
Sad to hear this story for Filipino people.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:49 am
So desperate!
October 30th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
This is foul to every filipino people.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
What the heck are they thinking?
October 31st, 2007 at 12:13 am
Sad for Filipino people to hear this world wide.