GRRRRRRRRR . . .

Has everyone seen this?
It's been going around for a while, and I believe it is not a doctored photo, but really exists in the April 2004 issue of Details Magazine.



What kind of bullsh*t is this? If someone had written a spoof about "Drunk or Irish" or "Drugdealer or Black," what the heck kind of uproar would our nation be in? There are fewer of us than there are of the rest of you minority groups, but that doesn't mean that inaccurate stereotypes and hurtful stupidity doesn't affect us all, minority or majority, and that we shouldn't stand up against it, together.

Thankfully, someone is covering this minor (hopefully to be major) brou-ha-ha. Check this out, from today's New York Daily News' Daily Dish column:

GLAAD TO BE UNHAPPY

The devil is in the new issue of Details, according to some angry gay and Asian groups.

The magazine contains a tongue-in-cheek feature inviting readers to discern whether the man pictured is "Gay or Asian."

The Details piece plays on such terms as "chicken," "entering the dragon" and finding "the plumpest eel."

The Asian-American Journalists' Association has demanded an apology from Details editor Dan Peres, citing the article's "leering sexual innuendo and a litany of the most tired cliches about both Asian and gay culture with no goal other than to ridicule both groups."

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation also protested and an online petition condemning the feature attracted over 15,000 names.

A rep for Details said the magazine will print a statement of "regret" next month.