Margaret Cho: Harajuku Girls (PC Barf Alert! 'Japanese Schoolgirl Uniform Is Like Blackface')

Margaret Cho Net ^ | 10/31/05

[gopwinsin04]

Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls have been getting a lot of attention lately, and I have to say that I am confused. I like Gwen Stefani, she's allright. She's very stylish, has a nice voice and a flat stomach. She is a rock star and quite good at it.

Now she has 4 things all together, the Harajuku Girls. I want to like them, and I want to think that they are great, but I am not sure if I can. I mean, racial sterotypes are really cute sometimes, and I don't want to bum everybody out by pointing out the minstrel show.

I think it is totally acceptable to enjoy the Harajuku girls because there are not that many other Asian people in the media and we have to take what we can get. Amos n' Andy had lots of fans didn't they?

At least it is a measure of visibility, which is much better than invisibility. Even though to me, a Japanese schoolgirl uniform is kind of like blackface, I am just in acceptance over it because something is better than nothing.

An ugly picture is better than a blank space, and it means one day we will have another display at the Museum of Asian Invisibilty, that groups of children will crowd around in disbelief, because once upon a time, we weren't there.

[gopwinsin04]

The girls are her METAPHORICAL muses, you fat stupid lesbian shrew.

[Personal Responsibility]

This just goes to show, if you look hard enough you can find something to offend you.

[freedomson]

Looking for ways to be offended.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"The girls are her METAPHORICAL muses, you fat stupid lesbian shrew."

So, tell us how you really feel? :)

[gopwinsin04]

[Monkey King]

Ah yes.

The Japanese are going to give a damn about what a Korean Lesbian has to say about their culture.

Maybe not.

[Rastus]

I'm offended by Margaret Cho. I don't know anything about Harajuku Girls, but they must be something to celebrate if this sow doesn't like them.

[Holicheese]

she isn't fat anymore. Last time I saw her she had lost a lot of weight. No I didn't go to her less than humorous show. She was on TV. Yes, I turned the channel.

[JohnnyZ]

pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures

[cripplecreek]

"She's very stylish, has a nice voice and a flat stomach."


And there Margaret exposes her real problem with Stefani. The uniforms are just a means of attack.

[frogjerk]

[freedomson]

Yeah, now she just looks bloated.

[JohnnyZ]

NOT pictures of Margaret Cho!!!!!!!!!!

[Holicheese]

I think the Harajuko girls are hot!

[rwilson99]

Is this the same fat lesbian who claims to be mistaken for Lucy Liu in her 10/27/05 blog entry?

B-List nut job... pay no attention.

[gopwinsin04]

[frogjerk]

[evets]

[Rastus]

I think the Harajuko girls are hot!

I only first heard about them about four minutes ago.

[Holicheese]

I am sure she still has fat ankles. All liberal women do.

[gopwinsin04]

[JohnnyZ]

That is so much better than what it could have been ....

[Rastus]

Did you know that Gloria Steinem is Batman's stepmom? Just another useless factoid.

[Personal Responsibility]

I am so offended!

:: he says as he downloads it to his hard drive ::

How dare you post such things!

;)

[Rastus]

[nuconvert]

"Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls " ?

I am totally in the dark

[EQAndyBuzz]

She had a rib removed a while back. That was when waifism was in vogue.

A salad would have been just as good and less painful.

[wolfcreek]

Japanese men think the schoolgirl outfits are the hottest thing going. Especially if they're really schoolgirls. Cho's just a jealous whore.

[Niteranger68]

she isn't fat anymore. Last time I saw her she had lost a lot of weight.

Look behind her and you'll find it.

[Ditto]

An ugly picture is better than a blank space, and it means one day we will have another display at the Museum of Asian Invisibilty, that groups of children will crowd around in disbelief, because once upon a time, we weren't there.

Maybe she has a point, because for the life of me, I don't have a clue who Margaret Cho is, what a Harajuku Girl is, or why I sould give a damn about either.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I am sure she still has fat ankles. All liberal women do."

And fat calves that go into those ankles. In my bizarro world we call them cankles.

[untenured]

Even though to me, a Japanese schoolgirl uniform is kind of like blackface,...

Like it or not, Japanese schoolgirls, especially Harajuku ones, are the arbiters of cool for large stretches of East Asia. So take it up with them.

[Rastus]

Japanese men think the schoolgirl outfits are the hottest thing going. Especially if they're really schoolgirls. Cho's just a jealous whore.

Yes, I read an article about Japanese vending machines that sell used schoolgirl panties. No offense to the Japanese, but a Lee Greenwood song is running through my head about now.

[gopwinsin04]

The Harajuku Girls are kind of like Gwen's backup dancers/band.

Each girl has a nickname for her four metaphorical muses 'Love,' 'Angel,' 'Music,' & 'Baby.' Kind of like Prince and the Revolution in the old days.

[Holicheese]

We call them Grankles- Grandma Ankles.

[cloud8]

Margaret is just jealous.

[andyk]

[gopwinsin04]

[Michael.SF.]

This coming from a woman whose best joke was:

"I hate it when people call me a Chink."

"I'm Korean, not Chinese, that makes me a Gook, not a chink."

Well, it was either that joke or the one where she makes fun of her mother's lack of understanding of the castro district:

(Must imagine heavy Korean accent as you read)

"Ass Master's? What is Ass Master's? I no understand, this Ass Master's"

[nuconvert]

LoL. That helped a little, until you mentioned Prince and the Revolution. That's not the old days for me, so it confused me again. lol

[andyk]

LOL, you win!

[George Smiley]

Margaret Cho is Korean.

And evidently historically ignorant.

The Koreans still have a great deal of animosity towards the Japanese for atrocities committed during World War II, for which only the most minimal apologies or compensation have been made.

[oyez]

I think MS Cho likes fashions that puts women in leather or burlap. Basically, it is none of her business.

[gopwinsin04]

That is truly great comedy, mimicking her own mother in racially offensive stereotypes for all of the whiteys to laugh at! (the pot--Margaret Cho--calling the kettle black, lol)

[Tijeras_Slim]

This is just weird enough to appeal to ya'.

[wickedpinto]

Lived in Japan for a year. LOVED! the outfit. both of my regular girlfriends still had the skirts. . . . and I hate to admit it (I was much younger then) that . . . Daddy Liked.

Personally I think that nothing has reduced the prospect for racism against the Japanese than the beloved schoolgirl outfit. It is hard for a man to hate the japanese, especially when they finally find a way to convince their mate to find THEIR old school uniform (a lot of US schools still have them) or their old cheerleader outfit, or BUY them a new cheerleader outfit. I'm on a tangent, but I think that god loves the schoolgirl uniform, because I think there are a lot of schoolgirls who were conceived thanks to the assistance of the mesmerizing uniform.

[gopwinsin04]

You rock Gwen Stefani! Anything lesbo shrew Maggie Cho is against, I am solidly for...

[Michael.SF.]

The Koreans still have a great deal of animosity towards the Japanese for atrocities committed during World War II

And that is not even to mention that the Japanese culture itself is probably the most racist culture in the world today.

[WhiteGuy]

I really don't care What Margaret Cho has to say on serious issues.

I'm just here to access Gwen Stefani and cute Asian babe pics.

Thanks for the excellent thread.

(Gwen needs to quit barfing after each meal)