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@RykerBurse [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : I love this. It’s so true. Woman are wonderful and complex creatures. And notice none of this has anything to do with your identity. It’s what you as a person choose. So stope the #woke drama [URL redacted]
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@JoannMuray [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: 🔴La culture #Woke a encore frappé en #GB!
Les scènes incluant le personnage japonais de M. Yunioshi, dans le film de Blake Edwards, "Breakfast at Tiffany's", diffusé sur @channel5_tv, ont été purement et simplement coupées!
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#IRLActorMickeyRooneyCharMrYunioshi #OtheringCaricatureImperialismOrientalYellowface
Supplementary "Rooney produces a dragged-out mockery of a Japanese accent in this role, becoming what Wall Street Journal columnist Jeff Yang called 'the godfather of the 'Ching-Chong' stereotype', which has endured for decades and conflates many kinds of Asian cultures and languages into one caricature. ... The emasculation of an Asian man by Holly Golightly is crucial to take notice of as there has been a long standing tradition of feminizing Asian men for political purposes by US mass media. Bo Leungsuraswat points out that 'the feminization and queering of Chinese immigrant men further justified their exclusion from the American cultural sphere on the ground that their existence threatened American family norms.' Maintaining family norms are hardly a priority for Holly Golightly, who has abandoned her ex-husband and his children in favour of a cosmopolitan lifestyle in New York. However, this means that Yunioshi becomes the scapegoat onto whom the viewer displaces their disappointment in the protagonist's deviations from family norms. Yunioshi embodies a domestic figure, contrasting Holly's cosmopolitan independence, making him a surrogate for the female protagonist's flaws and her move away from traditional modes of feminine existence" https://www.unpublishedzine.com/film-1/its-time-to-talk-about-mr-yunioshi-in-breakfast-at-tiffanys And Phruksachart, M. (2017). 'The Many Lives of Mr.Yunioshi: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast atTiffany's': Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 32(3), 93-119. [academic source] Bo Leungsuraswat (2012). 'Badass, Motherfucker, and Meat-Eater: Kit Yan's Trans of Color Slammin' Critique and the Archives of Possibilities' in Nineteen Sixty Nine: An Ethnic Studies Journal vol. 1, no. 1 (2012).
#PhenomnCulturalFormGenreTropeManicPixieDreamGirlMPDG [Wikipedia] #IRLActorAudreyHepburn
Supplementary "Rooney produces a dragged-out mockery of a Japanese accent in this role, becoming what Wall Street Journal columnist Jeff Yang called 'the godfather of the 'Ching-Chong' stereotype', which has endured for decades and conflates many kinds of Asian cultures and languages into one caricature. ... The emasculation of an Asian man by Holly Golightly is crucial to take notice of as there has been a long standing tradition of feminizing Asian men for political purposes by US mass media. Bo Leungsuraswat points out that 'the feminization and queering of Chinese immigrant men further justified their exclusion from the American cultural sphere on the ground that their existence threatened American family norms.' Maintaining family norms are hardly a priority for Holly Golightly, who has abandoned her ex-husband and his children in favour of a cosmopolitan lifestyle in New York. However, this means that Yunioshi becomes the scapegoat onto whom the viewer displaces their disappointment in the protagonist's deviations from family norms. Yunioshi embodies a domestic figure, contrasting Holly's cosmopolitan independence, making him a surrogate for the female protagonist's flaws and her move away from traditional modes of feminine existence" https://www.unpublishedzine.com/film-1/its-time-to-talk-about-mr-yunioshi-in-breakfast-at-tiffanys And Phruksachart, M. (2017). 'The Many Lives of Mr.Yunioshi: Yellowface and the Queer Buzz of Breakfast atTiffany's': Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 32(3), 93-119. [academic source] Bo Leungsuraswat (2012). 'Badass, Motherfucker, and Meat-Eater: Kit Yan's Trans of Color Slammin' Critique and the Archives of Possibilities' in Nineteen Sixty Nine: An Ethnic Studies Journal vol. 1, no. 1 (2012).
#PhenomnCulturalFormGenreTropeManicPixieDreamGirlMPDG [Wikipedia] #IRLActorAudreyHepburn
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