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Gomez has already expressed our grief about Ugly Betty having been shoved aside by ABC to make room for the latest unfunny all-white female ensemble comedy, in this case In The Motherhood.

Now comes news that In The Motherhood, which starts tonight, is bucking the Hollywood trend to cast Hispanic women only as nannies and never as middle-class mommies...by having the resident nanny on the show played by a Hispanic man, Horatio Sanz. Never mind that Mr. Sanz appears to be channeling New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson for this role; it's just annoying to Gomez that Hollywood couldn't, say, have a professional Latina mom in the cast, and a white male manny. Either way, though, chances are good that the show would flat suck binkie.

Gomez has had a chance to look at the pilot to this show, and while some of the ideas are sorta interesting, the show just basically bores Gomez to tears. It stinks because the writing is mediocre, as is the acting. But for Gomez, the show really sucks because it is the latest in a long line of shows/movies that seem to think:

1. The only interesting women in American are white women.
2. The only way white women can be interesting is to be callous, self-absorbed, dishonest, shallow and stupid.
3. Hispanics were put on this earth to care for the generally unwanted children of shallow white women.
4. It is clever and funny to cast a bearded Hispanic man in the role usually reserved for Latinas.

Gomez is over it already, and we suspect the rest of America will follow suit. We think our new friend Maria, whose blog Confessions of an Eastside Actress chronicles firsthand how frustrating it is to be a Latina in Hollywood, will likely agree that In The Motherhood is a waste of time and money for ABC.