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  • The Asian Gals on America's Next Top Model   6 years 22 weeks ago

    Im indian,and i personally think dear anchal, aint that gorgeous.70% of the worlds indian girls look better than her.tyra is nuts saying shes got scary beauty.

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 22 weeks ago

    Earth Girls are easy. Mars needs women...

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 22 weeks ago

    An asian girl of course!

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 22 weeks ago

    Excuse me if I misspelled the ugly soon yi's name she was a nasty little gross thing anyway. What type of girl marrys a man that molests her?

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 22 weeks ago

    You want to know an example of why Asian women are easy?Becaue of Woody Allen he met Son Yi his adopted foster daughter at an underage. If any man were to ever try having sex with a 14 year old white girl she would have screamed child molestation or rape! But then this disgusting, gross, Soon Yi thing went and married a white man that clearly molested her. But asian girls are so easy that they like to get molested. Soon Yi and Woody Allen are married now with a child, that is why people say asian women are easy. Look! this underage asian girl married this ugly, hideous, old man that any white girl would try to stick in prison you are DISGUSTING! and you know it. Disgusting ass asian girl you betrayed a woman that adopted you because you are easy!

  • The Insidiousness of Soft Racism   6 years 22 weeks ago

    Jennifer: I think that the director sounds f***ed up, I think you raised a valid point and that the process is, in fact, very important, and that while you may not be able to change the mind of the people in charge this time, you have to bring up these issues.Because every moment at which we say "wait, this isn't right" that deals with issues of marginalization, invisibility, and just plain old-fashioned passive racism is still a front in which we have to raise our voices and take an anti-racist stand.Stay strong!

  • The Insidiousness of Soft Racism   6 years 22 weeks ago

    jen, i had a fruitless argument in a writing workshop once, in which one of the other writers (white, male) wrote a fantasy piece in an entirely offensive "imperial china" which was a pastiche of every horrible cliche that has ever tortured my life.i couldn't sleep the night after i read it, i cried in class when trying to express how offensive it was, and i got no support in the workshop from the three other people of color in the class (none of them asian).the instructor, who was otherwise a great teacher, tried to turn the conversation away from this with the attitude that i had had my say and my opinion was no more important than anyone else's.the two things that made this whole incident tolerable in my memory were that:1. I interrupted the teacher and said distinctly (if tearfully), that no, no other opinion on this was acceptable. there was a position on this piece that had a certain absolute truth to it and offending someone of the ethnicity that was being exploited was something that required absolute respect. no one agree with me, but i said it.2. afterwards two white male students, who had just been conferring with each other, came up to me of their own accord and said, "we just don't get it, do we?" they said it humbly, and without irony. they got the fact that they didn't get it. I agreed and that was that.jen, i don't think you're going to get through this time, but maybe you can get just these two things across and let them sink in (it may take years):1. you have a perspective that, in its small way, is of absolute truth and must absolutely be respected. there is a nugget of truth here that is not subject to relativity.2. your producer simply does not get it. and because he doesn't get it, he's not going to get that he doesn't get it.just say these things, have a good cry (in front of everybody) and then let it go.

  • My New Boyfriend   6 years 22 weeks ago

    Another web site dedicated to the criticisms of the alllooksame.http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27828

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 22 weeks ago

    I think it is absolutely pathetic that people continue to view Asian women as objects and trophies for men to strut around and show off. Buying into all of these fetishes and fantasies is truly a reflection of one's stupidity. Everyone is different, regardless of culture, religion and language. People have different preferences across the board.This idea that Asian girls are easy is a FANTASY. Let's be real for a minute. The belief is that ALL WOMEN ARE EASY. There is a stereotype that Latin women are easy, that black women are easy, that white girls are easy, that Japanese girls are easy, that English girls are all sluts, that college girls are easy, that high school girls are easy, that California girls are easy, that Florida State girls are easy, that Arizona State girls are easy, go to Amsterdam because Dutch girls are all whores, hey Brazilian women are sexual freaks etc. etc. etc. Do u see a theme here? You name a group of women and men will want to believe that they are all sluts. Have u ever heard of a stereotype that such and such group of women are NOT easy? Probably not or if you did it is most likely applied to just a few groups.So then the next obvious question is why have we not heard such an idea? Well simply because that does not fall into the male desire that all women are easy and the female desire that all women are sluts except them. That is our human fantasy. Asian girls fall into that. Also from a commercial point of view it does not sell vacation trips, clothes, movies and music. Men will always want to believe that all women are easy and that they secretly desire us and are sexual beasts blah blah blah, when in fact most women are simply looking for love, financial security and upward social mobility in order to support themselves and their children.And even if you did go to Japan or China or Brazil or England or whatever for a year let’s say you did get lucky had sex with 20, 50 or even 100 women. Which by the way is extremely unlikely. Those 20, 50 even 100 women are just a small percentage of ALL the women you would have meet, befriended, interacted with, and passed by on the street that entire year. If ALL Japanese, Chinese, Brazilian or English Women are “easy” why wouldn’t every single women u met have sex with you? If all those women are “easy” they you should have had sex with a different women every single day, every single hour. My point is that even in the few most extreme and unlikely cases, the evidence still does not support the idea that ALL women from such and such a group are “easy”.If u are an insecure guy (which most of us are) why wouldn’t u want to believe that all Asian or Latina or Black or White women are easy and desire you. Remember this: People see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe regardless of numbers, surveys and FACT. If you are confident in who you are and what you can provide as a lover, companion and friend why would you even give these ideas and these speculations a second thought? Why would they ever excite you? Think about that…I feel that this issue taps into a larger issue of male-female relations. I think men in general need to start looking at women, all women regardless of their origin, creed or culture as individuals more so than just objects or sexual conquests. Then maybe there wouldn’t be so many problems in the world. Wake up people don’t believe the hype! It is an insult to your intelligence. And if you choose to believe in it, that just illustrates your lack of objective perception which is probably based in heavy insecurity.

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 23 weeks ago

    MichaelI lived in Japan for many years. Ive seen black and white dudes without cars, whose primary transportation was the public train. Many of then had beautiful Japanese Girlfriends, I was one of them. In Japan a car is not a necessity like here in America. Sounds like you have an imaginative Western view on the way girls think in the East.

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 23 weeks ago

    I can honestly say white men will always say fat, white, ugly girls are the only ones that date black men. And white woman probably say white men who are very ugly who cant get any white woman always go after asian girls. And in some strange way there is a lot of truth to that. A majority of white men started dating asian girls because of Wars that broke out that means there were no white woman around so they preety much had no choice. I think white woman tend to be more conceited because so many men want to be with a white woman, so people always say cruel things about them. And as for asian girls being easier I think that is probably true. Most men know they wont be rejected by one, some white men just get on planes and go to asian countrys and come back with a wife its like coming back with a souvenier. You can never go off and just look for a white woman, that would be impossible. By the way I dont care if I misspelled anything.

  • Anti-immigration group fronts Asian American   6 years 23 weeks ago

    RELAX:To disagree with a policy is one thing, to condon and promote race wars is another. Im the product of a mixed race, so stop the hate

  • Anti-immigration group fronts Asian American   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Nigerians and whites can have Gujarat...or even better they can move into Bihar and Orissa and even Assam. fine with me..100 million of them.

  • Anti-immigration group fronts Asian American   6 years 23 weeks ago

    "for example, Raj: if 50 million Nigerians wanted to move to Gujarat, would you be cool with that? Didn't think so..."Comment: This land does not belong to you. Your ancestors stole it from American Indians. If an Englishman is making the statement about Engalnd that you just made, fine. But, this is America..whiteness is the figment of American imagination. Whiteness and blackness are colors..they are not cultures. Keep talking about race war..all you guys look like are a bunch of jokers.

  • What is Happening to the Independent Press?   6 years 23 weeks ago

    I definitely feel for u guys. I think it is amazing what you do. I really appreciate the service you provide. I think everyone who consistently comes to this site has a duty to financially support Hyphen. I don't want to see you guys fold either.

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 23 weeks ago

    omg dude I know some black guy hes my roommate and he went to japan and droped the girls at the club easily and they were fine to. The only reason they liked him was because he had a nice car

  • Scooby-Doo creator Iwao Takamoto dies   6 years 23 weeks ago

    IWAO TAKAMOTO DID NOT CREATE SCOOBY DOO!! The actual, real, proven creators of Scooby Doo were Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Go to www.rubyspears.com and find "The History of Scooby Doo" and read the real story! Iwao Takamoto only designed Scooby based on Ruby & Spears written description.

  • Scooby-Doo creator Iwao Takamoto dies   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Wow I never knew the creator was Asian Am. Crazy stuff.

  • Love Your Asian American Artists!   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Great blog Robin!Thanks for your words - keep on shakin'up this world.Peace, Kathy

  • Mako, Pioneering AA Actor, Dies   6 years 23 weeks ago

    I only recently discovered Mako had passed. He was always a welcome presence on the screen. He's featured in the majority of my movie collection. He will not be forgotten, yet he will be missed.

  • Anti-immigration group fronts Asian American   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Raj writes:"Unless whites become a minority in this country the effects of racism will linger."At least Raj is open about his ethnic cleansing goals!Well, we've got a race war coming, and we all know who's going to win it. Hint: Raj, get used to life on the subcontinent.

  • Anti-immigration group fronts Asian American   6 years 23 weeks ago

    to Raj, bigotry = white Americans having the same ethnic pride he presumably allows Indians to have.for example, Raj: if 50 million Nigerians wanted to move to Gujarat, would you be cool with that? Didn't think so...

  • Norm Chow candidate to coach Cardinals   6 years 23 weeks ago

    what is the point of this website? Who cares that an nfl coach might be chinese?

  • Scooby-Doo creator Iwao Takamoto dies   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Takamoto was a stoner who modeled Shaggy after himself (always had the munchies, paranoid and squirrelly)

  • Asian Girls Are Easy   6 years 23 weeks ago

    Hey Asian girls, wake up! The media portrays u as beings sluts and whores and Asian men (your fathers, brothers, uncles, friends, husbands, lovers etc) as weak and unmasculine. What r u doing to change those perceptions? Personally, I don;t c you doing much. R u just going to willingly let them bash u?

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