This is a quote directly from your article. Heck, you practically opened the article with this.

It’s mostly a problem for us Asian Americans who get frustrated when one of the rare roles that isn’t an emasculated math nerd who’s the butt of the joke or exotic love interest/femme fatale to the white hero or wise

They likely don’t give a shit, because they have their own media and movies. It’s mostly a problem for us Asian Americans who get frustrated when one of the rare roles that isn’t an emasculated math nerd who’s the butt of the joke or exotic love interest/femme fatale to the white hero or wise, old martial arts master…

Except the people who bring up a character’s identity often present it as they can only identify with characters that look like them. If it really was the way you said, then they probably wouldn’t have brought it up to begin with as a character’s looks would then be a non-issue.

The very idea that you need to share superficial characteristics with a character to identify with them is part of the problem..

As much as Im shitting on io9 bro Im sorry but its location is Hong Kong but more specifically its a nowhere place based on HOng Kong.

Nope. It shouldn’t matter. It’s the values of the character, not their race, that’s important. Please, stop using race as a tool of negativity. It’s this type of regressive thought that’s harmful.

Then you don’t know what false equivalence is. EggplantEmojiFan didn’t say anything about the capacity to enjoy particular characters being determined by how closely you can identify with them.

then you are still being sent the message that asian heroes only exist outside the United States. Not IN the United States.

Yeah the character scar Jo is playing is a robot with a soul she isn’t Japanese she has she has a Japanese name so people are going apeshit...but she is a ROBOT! It’s very sad that people are forgetting what adaptations are...

Hey, I’ve got an idea that I think would be really cool AND would also do something to show people movies with amazing leads and characters from different parts of the world.

When am I gonna get my half black half Asian transgender pansexual autistic otherkin president?

And the weird thing is nobody seems to care about the very clearly Asian ones (like Kuze, who works best as a local and was modeled after Takeshi Kaneshiro).

Honestly though, this whole whitewashing ‘panic’ is finding some small negatives in a very strong forward trend that Hollywood is (for once) ahead of the game on.…

Wow another writer of I09 misses the mark completly on Japan and Japanese media. But ok fine lets fact check because obviously you havent been to Japan, nor lived there for an extended period of time and if you had you must have spent your time consuming instead of learning as most American weeaboo trash do. So lets…

I could almost agree with you if you at least got the title right...

If you need media to define who you are and what you aspire to, you were a poorly-raised kid. (As further evident by a little girl being given access to grind house violence and literally porn.)

Except that is not what they said. They said nothing about enjoying, only identifying with. There is no false equivalence in that comment.

Now, I’ve never been a minority, but I would suspect that if you feel that you are “the other”, say, because you’re a minority in a media culture that exists to please the majority, any sort of representation that acknowledges your existence must be satisfying. It feels like being part of society instead of something…

I must have missed a ton of GITS series and movies where the team actual looks like “asian” people. Because most of the main characters in the stuff I have seen don’t look “asian” at all.

How..... how are we still Having this conversation. How? How? There’s a hundred threads on io9 alone explaining that they are Asian, they “look Asian” to Asians, white to white audience. That it’s about the style. How are some people still pushing the “they don’t look Asian” garbage. HOW?!