The Spicy Sexpot is still a fixture on our screens. From Gabrielle (played by Eva Longoria) in Desperate Housewives to Gloria (Sofía Vergara) in Modern Family, she provides an alternative to the ubiquitous Latina maid, although the two tropes appear to come together in the more recent Devious Maids, the title of which probably says it all. This is no shade on those actresses: they are who they are. The problem is when their appearance is used to reduce millions of women of the various races and ethnicities that populate the twenty-one countries that make up Latin America into one hot-blooded
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