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State of the Nena.
Grad school applications: 2.5 out of four complete and submitted. The .5 would be the NKU app, which unfortunately is a two-part process. Yes, that's two steps in paper submission before you even get to the interview stage. Thank goodness they have a final application deadline in freakin' June for the fall semester.
Reading: Tsubasa (this week's chapter actually made me cry!!!), Ah! My Goddess (HOLY CRAP you guys this story arc is getting awesomer by the minute), and catching up on the past two years' worth of X-Factor. Oh, X-Factor. You are so, so good. Even with your insistence on revolving entire storylines aroundSparklepunk Mary Sue Layla Miller, you're still so, so good.
Linky-links: Derek Kim on the Avatar movie. Read it. NOW. Derek Kim is an amazing writer, and if his words can't convince you that "racist" is exactly the right word for this shit, then nothing can. Also: It just keeps getting worse. However, there may be a way to make lemonade from all those lemons.
Doing: Yes, I am scanning stuff. Hold yer horses.
Reading: Tsubasa (this week's chapter actually made me cry!!!), Ah! My Goddess (HOLY CRAP you guys this story arc is getting awesomer by the minute), and catching up on the past two years' worth of X-Factor. Oh, X-Factor. You are so, so good. Even with your insistence on revolving entire storylines around
Linky-links: Derek Kim on the Avatar movie. Read it. NOW. Derek Kim is an amazing writer, and if his words can't convince you that "racist" is exactly the right word for this shit, then nothing can. Also: It just keeps getting worse. However, there may be a way to make lemonade from all those lemons.
Doing: Yes, I am scanning stuff. Hold yer horses.
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pee ess: Glad your box got to you! ♥♥♥
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It angers me that "suspension of disbelief" is thrown in as a defense for this crap! As if this is just like believing a guy on ropes is flying or something!!!!!!!!! As if that's ALL IT IS TO HIM!
*screams*
Also it made me think of my own feelings and growing up wishing not just I could be seen as a girl but often seeing myself in my fantasies as a WHITE girl b/c to be heroic or pretty or successful from what I picked up in fiction and superheroic fiction and etc meant that. :\ I didn't want to be a token, I wanted to be a main hero... and I've been thinking lately that I always get told by white ppl when I express my feelings on this that "well in Hong Kong they have Chinese heroes, so just go watch those" but then we also get told to assimilate, to see ourselves as Canadian/American, and truthfully even if I do watch Hong Kong movies and stuff, I still do see myself as Canadian, this is still the culture I grew up in, and the heroes I look up to are still the ones in this culture (in fact I reached out to Asian movies and pop culture for Asian heroes only B/C I couldn't find any here) and it's hard growing up being told "well you're Canadian/American, but you're not going to find yourself in any empowering roles in the media here (which in Canada is mostly American which is why I did the slashy thing) and even if you're SUPPOSED to be in those roles, well they'll be filled by white ppl too!" >:O And ugh!
I dunno if I make sense there.. I just woke up but that piece a lot in me and my feelings about me being white in my power fantasies growing up and also why "just look at a foreign country (and truthfully, China and Hong Kong, while where my family came from, is still "foreign" to me compared to Canada) for heroes and you'll be fine" does not make it better!
Brawr... :\ I hope I'm not just being silly. I'm just sick of always being smacked down when I bring this up with "well I have Asian and female and black heroes, stop being racist and caring about skin colour!" and "well in Hong Kong every actor is Chinese! go complain about that!" or "if you want Chinese heroes look in China!" and etc :(
Also, b/c of those sentiments and also "you're Canadian/American, not Chinese Canadian/Amercan, Canadian/American" and other such sentiments that get thrown around also, I feel like I have to CHOOSE. You know? I can't just be me, Ami, Chinese Canadian girl, who can find Asian heroes in the place she grew up in and calls home and have both parts of that identity sated (if that makes sense), I have to CHOOSE. If I'm Canadian (and in media essentially American), well that means WHITE. Otherwise if you're not okay with that, gtfo and go back to China. :\
That's what I feel like I'm being told. :(
I dunno if that's unfair or if I sound too extreme or sensitive but.. that's just stuff that's been on my mind and that post brought it out. Thank for again for linking to it :)
*hugs*
I'm sry for writing an essay on your blog :(
Also good luck on your apps! :D
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I wonder what would happen if a publication such as Entertainment were to publish Mr. Kim's essay, complete with pictures? So far, it seems like it's only fans making a stink about this. It seems like the complaints really need to be made more mainstream. What if someone were to point this story out to the people who make shows like Access Hollywood? It seems like it would be a juicy enough story.
Isn't there some equivalent of the Anti-Defamation League or NAACP for fighting racism against people of Asian descent? If there is, why haven't I heard anything about them getting involved? Because really, if this were about whitewashing black characters, you know activists would be all over this like white on rice.
Hollywood! UR DOIN IT WRONG! I BITE MY THUMB AT YOU, SIR! (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
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