Over the last year or so I've felt increasingly sensitive to the way asian men are portrayed in TV and movies - often desexualized, feminine, and the butt of jokes. It's kind of upsetting.
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Yeah I mean obviously it's not this way in a lot of foreign media. My original tweet was talking about western media, sorry for not being clear.
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It’s because we forgot Bruce Lee! I’ve got an old grizzled white supremacist populist farmer uncle in Poland, and Bruce Lee was that man’s hero
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Hmm. Season 2 of Altered Carbon seems like a good example of this. Same character, different actors, very different portrayals along these dimensions.
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It really can't be unseen. Luckily there have been noticeable changes in recent years.
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It’s even worse for brown men from Asia, always shown as either some nerdy IT type or a terrorist. No inbetween
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The feminine part especially so when you realize it's a reaction to George Takei.
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Glen on Walking Dead was one of the few heroes. But then of course they killed him.