Netflix show removes “offensively stereotypical” Latina housekeeper role

[hewontgo]

Actress Ada Maris penned a letter to the show’s creators about the “hurtful” depiction of a Latina housekeeper https://t.co/ULrnTcGTaR
- NME (@NME) November 12, 2021
Upcoming Netflix comedy series Uncoupled has dropped a Latina housekeeper character, after an actor criticised their stereotypical portrayal. Ada Maris read the script for the comedy

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[kranf]

Home Economics also has a latina housekeeper and she is not even a fleshed out character.

Good for her and f*ck everyone else

[curdlesnoots]

[cstoffer]

But why not flesh out the character and hire an diversity and inclusion manager and and make the part actually matter?

It seems way too easy just scrap the part than to actually listen to her valid objections to the role.

[brokecouture]

Honestly fuck them, I’m glad they didn’t even try to do something sensible like that clearly it would have crashed and burned. They don’t have the capacity or the grace to do something like that obviously so good riddance and fuck the show.

[madhler]

Spite. They probably cut the character out of spite. Like, “fine, if you don’t like the way we wrote the Latina character, then you get no Latina character.” Fucking assholes.

[missyxxmisch]

yep. That's exactly how I read it. bastards.

[anderbobo]

NPH is an asshole so I'm not surprised that he was cool with that to begin with.

[unnecessaryhat]

my thoughts exactly

[owl_get_you]

Literally will never forgive him after the party with the Amy Winehouse ~snacks~

[anderbobo]

Yup... that was literally it for me.

[therearewords]

First of all: let's not act like Americans speak any language but English broken, so why still turn it into a joke when esl people do it with English.

Secondly:NPH

[daisyissosilly]

Let's be honest: most Americans don't even speak English correctly.

[zibbydoo324]

I took Spanish all 4 years in high school. Then as an adult, I worked with a bunch of Hispanic immigrants. At that point, I barely spoke kitchen Spanish but I could hang in translating scenarios. I’ve been out of that environment for a few years. Now I say I speak Spanish like a 2 year old. (Hablo español un poquito pero mi español es basura. como soy dos años.)
Very limited & others will struggle to understand me.

[hisjulliet]

How do Americans speak broken English?