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Constance Wu, who plays Jessica Huang on the show Fresh Off the Boat, has picked a somewhat ridiculous platform on which to fight for equality. For the backstory, NBC originally greenlighted a script from the trio behind the hit show Superstore called Mail Order Family. Just in case you were wondering, that is not a play on words, the premise was to be about a widowed father who sends away for a mail order bride to help raise his two daughters. It was based on writer Jackie Clarke’s experience with her own father having done this. She once described her whole sordid tale on an episode of This American Life. Spoiler – Clarke’s experience was miserable and she dislikes everyone involved. Understandably, the show received much backlash and NBC canceled it very soon after purchasing it.

What is not understandable is Constance posting this tweet last Friday:

If the woman is FIRST billed & paid 2X what the male actor makes then I’ll be OK w/ Mail-Order Bride comedy, in fact I’ll root for her

— Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) September 30, 2016

But then she rethought her tweet and decided she should clarify herself so she tweeted this:

@ConstanceWu I mean I’ll root for her anyway. But anyone who thinks this is a ridiculous request oughta look into themselves