I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
- SIR MIX-A-LOT, “Baby Got Back”
Every time I hear those lyrics, I cringe. Why? Because I admit that I have a flat butt. Please, no jokes. I’m a little sensitive about it. Once I asked an ex-girlfriend if she thought I had a nice ass and she said I had a wonderful personality. I should have known then that the relationship was doomed.
You’re probably saying, “Women don’t care if men have big butts.” But according to Yahoo! Answer!, which knows everything, women do.
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Oh, New York Times. Where would we be without your hard hitting and insightful reporting on Asian culture? According to this article from a couple weeks back, crooked teeth, or yaeba, is the hot new trend among women in Japan.
Japanese men are said to find this attractive: blogs are devoted to yaeba, celebrities display it proudly, and now some women are paying dentists to create it artificially by affixing plastic fronts to their real teeth.
Whoooa, them Japanese folks are crazy! Not only are they born with imperfect teeth (like us!) but they also pay for dental surgery to make them even more crooked. Say whaaaaaaaaaat?
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Presidential candidate, former Governor of Utah, and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has often said that he is fluent in Mandarin, which he learned as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan for two years. A recent Slate article questioned whether or not Huntsman was truly fluent in Mandarin Chinese, especially after his most recent appearance on The Colbert Report.
Happy Tuesday, kids – so from the 66% of people who marked “BORED,” clearly people are NOT a fan of Girls Generation’s recent English track, “The Boys.” Fair enough, jaded commenters. As for the J-Pop fans looking for their female-driven Asian entertainment to be less “skank” and more “sweet,” here is a recent video of The Wonder Girls – they who have been touched by Perez Hilton and have opened up for the Jonas Brothers – covering “Nothing But You” by Bruno Mars, he who is part Filipino and had that awkward run-in with cocaine last year.
How awkward and awesome is this? WCCO, a local Minnesota news station, falsely reported that a Chinatown market was selling dog meat. The problem was that the reporter confused what the Chinese employee said as “dog” instead of “duck.” After the story aired, “New York state inspectors raided the Dak Cheong Meat Market and didn’t find one bit of proof that they were selling dog meat. Chao Fang, an employee at the market, talked to the Post, which somehow correctly understood what he said and quoted him accurately.” The kicker? Fang also said, “‘How could we sell dog meat? This isn’t China. This isn’t Korea.’” Oh snap! But he has a point. Get it straight, journalists. Chinese people eat CATS.
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[EDITORS NOTE: This is a review for the Queers on the Verge Shorts Program at the San Diego Asian Film Festival.]
The presence and portrayal of any group in cinema is called into question when they are marginalized by ignorance or bigotry—and often times, it’s both. Whether it’s negative portrayals based off of offensive stereotypes or an utter lack of representation, the question remains: how do people tell their story if those talking about them don’t really know what the story is? Continue Reading »
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Women get together and complain about men. It happens. Yet no other group of women display such visceral antagonism toward men of their own race as Asian women do. We Asian women never say generally “men are horrible.” We say “Asian men are horrible.” We ourselves buy into the rumor that somehow Asian men are more misogynist than other men. The complaints ring universally: Asian men are more abusive; Asian men are more chauvinistic; Asian men are weak; Asian men fail to protect their women. Why?
As Amy Tan and many other Asian female writers have discovered, as every American who has ever watched the glowing screen mesmerized by the gloriously vicious Yakuza gangster strutting through the red-lit parts of Tokyo or the pockmarked Korean actor who is playing a Chinese guy who rapes and beats the white protagonist’s girlfriend know, Asian men are the perfect villains.
Byron Wong (of BigWowo.com and Fighting44s fame) wrote an editorial in the International Examiner, “Heterosexual Asian Men and the Invisibility Problem” (October 19, 2011) that sounded off on the lack of positive representation of straight Asian men. More surprising than the dearth of non-evil straight Asian men in the mainstream media (because really, white people getting it wrong about people of color–when has that been surprising) is the dearth of non-evil straight Asian men as a viable model even within the APA community. As Wong noted, the invisibility of straight Asian men in the APA blogosphere is a “mutually-recognized irony” among straight Asian men.
Making its World Premiere at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival (starting tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8th-19th) is PEARLS OF THE FAR EAST (Canada/Vietnam), a collection of seven short stories inspired by true events spanning several generations. The film captures some of the most breathtaking images of Vietnam making each frame absolutely postcard worthy gorgeous to watch.
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The perpetual foreigner syndrome is something we as Asian Americans are unfortunately all too familiar with and something we have to brush off as cases of stupidity and ignorance. Sometimes, it can seriously get in the way, especially if you’re trying to run a business. This was the case in Alabama where the owner of a large southwest Alabama car dealership was derided as “Taliban Toyota” by a competitor.
A friend of mine pointed this cute NFL commercial highlighting NFL.com’s ticket exchange online service (nfl.com/ticketexchange). The kid is an everyday American football fan, wearing his team’s jersey and his father looks pretty psyched as well for being able to buy some tickets to the game.
Out of all the major league sports in the United States, I wonder what is the most popular amongst Asian Americans – football, basketball, baseball, or hockey (or even soccer)?
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