Newsflash: I'm not writing a fucking dissertation on the various manifestations of Japanese culture and ethnicity.
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Holy crap, I guess I do have to break this down for you. No, Japanese Katy Perry fans would probably not have the same opinions of Katy Perry's oriental fetishist behavior if they knew the extent to which overall American oriental fetishism goes (and though KP's VMA performance is just a small slice of this, it's…
Also, okay, since you went there, nitpick note. You make the distinction between "Japanese Americans," which is the category you put me in, and "Japanese (as in, your bullshit parameters of Japaneseness)," which I guess you established as disparate from me. In American culture, "Japanese Americans" are primarily…
Omg and now with these "well Japanese Americans are like this but actual Japanese people" classic Katy Perry stan party lines. As though a performance that took place in the United States has no obligation to consider how the performance affects Americans. And as though something being potentially acceptable in a…
I'm with you, dude looks like he's on some Divine shit (not that I don't love Divine).
Oh boy, now I get to play take-apart-my-background-so-stranger-on-the-Internet-can-decide-I'm-not-"Japanese"-enough-and-continue-her-white-supremacist-steamroll-bullshit!! I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME, LET'S FUCKING DO THIS.
"The Japanese response?" Bitch, who? I'm an actual Japanese person and I think Katy Perry's performance was horseshit. But I guess it wouldn't matter to some ignorant, white supremacist stan who thinks Katy Perry is a beautiful, unique, uncriticizable snowflake and all Japanese people share a hivemind.
the brand declares that there will be "no more retouching our girls and no more supermodels."
Baby Paula Abdul at 2:50!!!!
Truth!!
I mean obviously the two are not complete analogues (there are things Janet has said and done with her music that Bey can't even touch tbqh sry), but you can make the greater general argument that both of their images, especially regarding sexuality, were tightly controlled by their fathers.
Also how badly does America need a Rhythm Nation right now? Because pretty badly.
"Because most women do x for bad y reasons, no women should do x for any reason."
Sorry, but: so? There are women who refuse to leave the house without makeup, but I am not one of them. I just like to slap on some eyeliner from time to time because it helps me go for whatever look I'm going for. Should I stop wearing makeup at all? Or, if I choose to wear makeup, should I also wear some kind of…
That said, unless you're allergic to makeup, you'd have to put on a lot of it to see the same negative effects as someone squeezing a corset too tight. Like, so-much-it-literally-weighs-you-down-and-you-stop-breathing much makeup.
Most women have been told that we don't NEED makeup until we come into the office one day without anything on and get asked by 5 different people oh my god are you feeling okay??? You look so sick!!
Probably national fatigue from the oversaturation of Gedde Watanabe in the '80s.
JWoww's Marceline hoodie!!!
Cats are literally the definition of guile!