I don’t do advice. I’m always muttering that to myself when I get e-mail from adoptive parents asking me what is best for their adopted child: X or Y? That’s not why adult adoptees exist, people, and I haven’t ever put myself out there as a personal adviser or offered to co-parent anyone else’s kid. Sorry, folks.
Those gems cost money.
I don’t do advice.
Oh, but then I catch myself every so often, uttering what sounds awfully close to advice. Well, nobody’s perfect.
Like today, I’m thinking, great jumpin Jolie-Pitt, these T-shirts are horrendous, and in such poor judgment, I’m practically wiping up spit and vomit off my nice new monitor, and if it suffers permanent damage, can I bill these gits for that?
Why, you wonder, am I barfing up my last meal? Archives, do your thang.
So, I don’t do advice. Except for today, and today my one free nugget of advice is:
For the love of Pax, do NOT buy these shirts.
Secondly, I’m not sure that I have an appropriate post in my archives that I can offer in response to this atrocity, but the bottom line here is, FREE THE LITTLE ASIAN GIRL. UNHAND HER, YOU FOUL BEASTS. Crawl out from under the rock beneath which ye dwell and assault her no longer with such gawd-awful fetishist garb, ye abusers of innocent children!
*convulses*
“China doll.” If I could obliterate one phrase on this day, today — one hideous, insulting, makes-my-skin-crawl, stereotypical, racist, saw-my-ears-off, Orientalist pairing of two words that should NEVER be uttered in relation to Asian girls, Asian women, Asian adoption or any scenario involving human beings — it would be that one.
Use it not. I WILL DESTROY YOU WITH MY WRATHFUL ASIAN WOMAN DEATH GLARE.
Did I mention that I don’t do advice?
Jeez, you adoptees are so angry all the time. jk
I’m glad I’m not the only one who wants to puke when i heard “china doll”
I hear you on the advice.
May I also add this little piece of garbage?
I’m thinking of getting one. What color do you think would look best with my magenta hair? (I died it because I got tired of being perceived as the grandma.)
SO TOTALLY KIDDING.
I hated letting anyone know I was a waiting AP because it would pull the most lamest possible comments and questions out of peoples’ butts. Pregnant women go through that too, and while they might enjoy it for the first day or two they show– by the eighth month (at least so I hear) they are generally ready to sit on heads to get them to quit talking. So why would this element of AP privilege be something we would give UP?
WTH is up with the name “Pax”? I know what it means, but whenever I hear it I think of Tampax. I think I prefer the name “Pez”…….
Jessie (AP with a conscience)
Dammit, I left a comment but I bet WP ate it or sent it off to spam. I’m with you on the advice thing but hey, “Assembled in America with Vietnamese Parts” and ” Born in Vietnam – Loved in America”????? WTF were these people thinking?
I am her REAL mother………….???!!! How degrading to the whole essence of who their children are. Each saying was worse than the next. I followed every link and agree on all counts.
Carmen: GRRRRRRRR. *gnashing teeth*
Sue, the minute you start slipping and edging toward the dark side, we’re sending the TRA brigade on over to stage an intervention.
Jessie – LOL! You’re right! At least she didn’t choose Tham Pax.
Sume, *tsk tsk* spamming people again? I thought we broke you of that nasty habit.
Found your first comment in my spam just now. Atrocious link — it matches these other ones perfectly.
Mia — I couldn’t even bear to look at *all* the clothes on those sites. I hear that there are some doozies on there that would make even the angriest adoptee cry. Ha ha.
Ha.
Okay, that “Little Lantern” link was … truly icky. I think it was the font that sent me over the edge.
Yikes! Some of those t-shirts are truly frightening on so many levels.
I don’t know whether to laugh, vomit, or cry. I think I’ll choose crying.
sad to say I just did a count of adoption themed items on Cafepress:
Adoption child: 639 items
adoption boy: 654
adoption girl: 1040
adoption animal: 3940
adoption cat: 2170
adoption dog: 6420
What does this say about our society?
Oh. My. God. Nice Oriental Font There. Yeah…. What?
First of all, adoption as a ‘theme’? A fricking ‘theme’??? If I write a poem about Easter freaking Bunny, I may use pastels as a theme… I’m thinking maybe Elmo or Maisy Mouse as possible themes for LN’s birthday party…
Again, what’s with the exploitation?
Excellent blog. Hopefully will turn the tide against muppets like jolie and madonna. Should be mandatory reading for anyone considering transracial adoption. Which will then ideally lead them to reconsidering.
AHHHH! those shirts! MY EYES! MY EYES!
*sizzling noise from eyes being burned out of skull*
And now I’m blind.
Well at least I don’t need to look at those damn shirts anymore! =P
what an cute little asian girl. where can I buy one?
ewwwwwww. “Little lanterns?” Little stereotypes more like it.
And if I ever refer to the child who may become my son as my “Guatemalan Blessing,” please send the afore mentioned TRA goon squad after me posthaste