‘And this is when my mom kicked me under the table when I mouthed off to my dad.’
Jack Yang and Lucy Liu show each other’s war wounds in Cashmere Mafia.
Last nights IM conversation with Will-W.
willw: omg cashmere mafia went there!!
willw: good for them
xxxtine: went where?
xxxtine: what’s going on?
willw: lucy liu!
willw: dating an asian guy!!
xxxtine: OMG!
willw: u’re missing out
xxxtine: I’ll find a torrent tomorrow!
willw: so fresh! love it
xxxtine: who is he?
willw: no idea
willw: omg the men on this show is hot
willw: are hot
willw: they’re so hot they make me have bad grammar
The tall drink of water is Jack Yang and according to IMDB … he lasts for 3 episodes. Still … ROWR!
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akrypti wrote:
WHOA. So weird because I *JUST* watched this episode last night on my computer.
Go here: http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
Click on “Cashmere Mafia” and you’ll see the episodes.
They didn’t just go “there” but they went all the way. He says to her that he normally doesn’t date Chinese girls and she pretends to be aghast only to realize she hasn’t dated an Asian guy since junior high either.
Posted on 24-Jan-08 at 1:25 pm | Permalink
John wrote:
Yeah, I watched this last night too. I was amazed to see an Asian American couple dating on mainstream prime-time network television! And both the characters were kind of surprising themselves acknowledging that fact as well. Too bad it looks like that is only going to last for another two episodes.
Posted on 24-Jan-08 at 8:53 pm | Permalink
Robert wrote:
Don’t worry.
They’ll make him gay in due time. Heh. The fact that there is such a huge uproar over this just makes it all the more sad and funny at the same time. Nothing will come from this since in the very next episode, she hooks up with yet another white guy.
Business as usual.
Posted on 25-Jan-08 at 10:37 am | Permalink
Robert wrote:
I also find it extremely odd that they chose to make the Asian man in the situation as the one that doesn’t date Asian. I have honestly never heard of this coming out of any Asian man’s mouth but have many Asian women who hold this mentality.
Posted on 25-Jan-08 at 11:20 am | Permalink
jozjozjoz wrote:
A little late on this, but *ROWR* for Jack Yang. I nominate him for our Top 8 Sexiest Asian Men list this year!
Posted on 27-Jan-08 at 3:42 pm | Permalink
Sophia wrote:
hmm. I think Robert has got something there! perhaps the Asian man who only dates non-Asian is a myth and the Asian-Am men should write in to the white men who wrote that episode? perhaps we can encourage them to have some Asian-Am writers if they don’t already?
Posted on 30-Jan-08 at 10:00 pm | Permalink
Bertie wrote:
Sophia, that’s sarcasm right? I know a few Asian American men who don’t date Asian American women.
Posted on 31-Jan-08 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
Sophia wrote:
Hmm. Well I have never met such a man but perhaps that is b/c I come from CA where we have lots of Asian-Ams? But to portray that as quite common and an insider Asian thing, as they do on the show… perhaps that gives out the wrong message, or maybe it opens doors for Asian Am men and women to date non-Asian Am men/women who see the show…
Posted on 31-Jan-08 at 3:53 pm | Permalink
Bertie wrote:
Well I’m in NYC where there are also lots of Asian Ams, and the show’s based in NYC.
Honestly, I thought the writer for that particular episode may have been an Asian Am guy.
Posted on 31-Jan-08 at 7:56 pm | Permalink
Sophia wrote:
Yeah. but are the “Asian-Am men that don’t date Asian” you know originally from NYC or CA or originally from a “whiter” state where their high school romances/fantasies were non-Asian?
writers for the episode:Writer: Chris Alberghini, Mike Chessler
so, not so Asian, unless they married and took their white wives’ names or were adopted.
Hmm wonder how many asian am writers there are in hollywood. perhaps Will Tiao knows?
Posted on 31-Jan-08 at 11:08 pm | Permalink
Bertie wrote:
Asian parenting pressure is pretty much the same, regardless of geography.
Anyway, I thought the episode was pretty clever and spot-on. I liked the look on Lucy Liu’s face when he said he didn’t go for Chinese girls. I’ve had guys explain to me that they’ve been pressured to date Asian and they simply got sick of being pressured. I mean, if you want another example… look at John Cho’s character in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. He purposely avoided the Asian girl who kept following him around, indicating that ending up with someone like her was expected of him. The same theme was (sort of) covered in The Namesake w/ Kal Penn’s character from what I recall.
Posted on 01-Feb-08 at 8:12 am | Permalink
Robert wrote:
Can one rationalize that if Asian parents didn’t pressure their kids to date and marry other Asians that interracial dating would decrease? Or would it just increase because there isn’t that same pressure?
Posted on 02-Feb-08 at 2:32 pm | Permalink
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[...] (as nominees for Best Reality Star, since Yul Kwon can’t win four years in a row) as well as Lucy Liu’s two-episode boyfriend from the now canceled Cashmere Mafia and Indian-Canadian comedian Russell Peters, which led to this [...]
Posted on 01-May-08 at 12:43 pm | Permalink