Caucasian man thinks he's a Filipino woman

Sounds like Jessica Tarlov when he sings

Adam Wheeler, from New Orleans, changed his name to Ja Du, had his penis and testicles removed, grew his hair long, and thinks he Filipino, possibly because he believes "you are what you eat."

The guy loves Filipino food and culture and identifies as being Filipino. His German shepherd identifies as being a white mailman--and the dog's a bitch, not a male.

Du drives around in a purple colored rickshaw called a Tuk Tuk, a vehicle used for public transportation in the Philippines, and when the temperature falls below 35 degrees F., his female parts turn blue. (The photo below should explain it all.)

"Whenever I'm around the music, around the food, I feel like I'm in my own skin," the mentally ill Du told WTSP. "I'd watch the History Channel sometimes for hours, you know, whenever it came to that and, you know, nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture."

The comments put Du into a small, but growing community of mentally ill people whose reality testing is derived from believing that TV shows such as "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone" were documentaries. (See also Rachel Dolezal.)

Du told the Huffington Post "I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music." Hopefully, things that make sense to him but not mentally healthy people will make sense to his psychotherapist.

He continued, "It's all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [that's] how I feel about the Filipino culture."

What was I thinking? Makes perfect sense.

But actual Filipinos aren't too happy with Du because he is overlooking the history of struggle Filipinos endured. Some Filipinos believe that Du is merely exercising white privilege, but they're just as crazy as Du.

Filipino-American journalist Jackie Fernandez said Du's comments highlight the "thin line between cultural appreciation and appropriations being crossed."

If Du is a liberal, and I suspect he is, the liberal media will define his mental illness as cultural appreciation.




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