I was in the middle of writing some entry on Juno and whiteness when I thought I'd Google a couple of phrases. I have to say there's something rather confounding about these results, unless I should use "woman" or "man" instead:
"quirky Asian guy" (9 results)
"quirky Asian girl" (76)
"quirky black guy" (40)
"quirky black girl" (76)
"quirky white girl" (7)
"quirky white guy" (9)
"quirky Latino girl" (2)
"quirky Latino guy" (1)
"quirky Jewish girl" (10)
"quirky Jewish guy" (5)
Unless, of course, "white" is the unmarked category. (Best of all is the fact that a good majority of the hits above are actual self-descriptions on Friendster and MySpace, which strikes me as really, really sad.)
But then you get this:
"quirky sidekick" (1,810)
Now we're talking.
p.s. There are no quirky Filipino girls. Just wanted to let you all know that.
Posted by the wily filipino at February 26, 2008 01:28 PM