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Scrubs star Judy Reyes is fed up with Hollywood's tendency to typecast Latinas as domestics, calling it "a phenomenon created by non-Latino people...whose experiences with Latinas are limited to conversations they’ve had with their maids." Hack screenwriters who've inflicted the likes of Maid on Manhattan on the world have been put on notice:

I’m saddened by the fact that the first time Jennifer Lopez played a Latina was as a maid [in "Maid in Manhattan"]. And, para el colmo, she was actually rescued in the end by a white man! (Actually, the first Latina role J.Lo played was Selena.) I’m not looking down on anyone playing a maid, or even playing a prostitute. I need that to be absolutely clear. My mom was a maid and plenty of people in my family work as maids. There’s nothing wrong with that profession [..]

I do enjoy the character of Rosario (the feisty El Salvadoran housekeeper played by Shelley Morrison) on "Will & Grace" because she has a complete disregard for her non-Latino boss’s view of her. But sadly, there’s a lack of appreciation for that actress and her role.

Since we know that it's going to be a while before anyone in Hollywood is persuaded to stop spying on the help through their nanny-cams long enough to ween themselves off plugging stereotypes into their scripts, we think we've finally got a handle on the kinds of acceptable maid roles. The romantic comedy maid rescued by the white-man-in-shining-armor: bad. The foul-mouthed sitcom maid that's constantly belittled by her white, alcoholic boss: hilarious!