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Margaret Cho: Harajuku Girls (PC Barf Alert! 'Japanese Schoolgirl Uniform Is Like Blackface')
Margaret Cho Net ^ | 10/31/05

Posted on 11/01/2005 1:21:52 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Japan; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: asian; bakablather; barfalert; bitterhomo; blackface; crazygaybiatch; failedcomedian; gwenstefani; harajukugirls; huh; japanese; jealousdyke; korean; lesbian; maggiechoisnuts; margaretcho; pcalert; shutupandact; wickedstyle
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To: lainie

I saw a behind the music about her and the story of how she was in love with the other bandmember, and then, when they broke up, all her songs were mean songs about him, was heartbreaking, but hysterical! (I know, that was a long, crappy sentence!)


121 posted on 11/01/2005 3:47:14 PM PST by Hildy
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To: gopwinsin04

She's hopeless. She's actually saying Gwen only married a Brit to be like her. How crappy.


122 posted on 11/01/2005 3:48:02 PM PST by lainie
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To: lainie
What really bothers Madge is that SHE didn't think of the Harajuku girls first...lmao!


123 posted on 11/01/2005 3:53:23 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
So now Margaret thinks she's Che Guevara?

Or Gypsy Rose Lee?

**** Click at your own risk! ****

124 posted on 11/01/2005 3:54:44 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: gopwinsin04

This is funny funny stuff!

Here's this burlap sack of a female who makes her living with lame stereotypical race baiting "comedy", b!tching about "racist" aspects of the Harajuku's wardrobe choice!

Sane people just can't make this sh!t up!


125 posted on 11/01/2005 3:56:32 PM PST by porkchops 4 mahound (What ya gonna do?.......... Get REAL........ American CONSERVATIVE, not a Republican lapdog)
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To: VadeRetro

oh, geeeeeeeeeeeeeze


126 posted on 11/01/2005 3:58:45 PM PST by lainie
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To: porkchops 4 mahound

And then washed up has been Madonna is piling on for good measure because her album is going to be outsold by Ashlee Simpson! It's been one wacy week...


127 posted on 11/01/2005 3:59:14 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
I think Maggie may have a lesbian girl crush on Gwen and is acting out to get her attention, Ms. Stefani is 100% old school woman no doubt!

Gwen Stefani goes out of her way to look "glam rockstar/diva." However, if you look at some of her oldher photos, like the one you published, she's really a very beautiful young woman, and I think that she really goes out of her way to cover it up. Her look, with outrageous clothes and makeup really hide how gorgeous she is.

Mark

128 posted on 11/01/2005 4:00:33 PM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Japanese schoolgirl gear is like blackface? Uh, no. I think it's extremely safe to say that very few men are or ever have been sexually aroused by a young woman wearing blackface.


129 posted on 11/01/2005 4:00:47 PM PST by RichInOC (hai!)
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To: VadeRetro
Looks like no man would want Margaret, so she decided to sign up for the other team.


130 posted on 11/01/2005 4:02:46 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
I won't even ask WHICH other team. Name another team, she's ON it!
131 posted on 11/01/2005 4:05:51 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: MarkL
She can really be beautiful when she wants to be.


132 posted on 11/01/2005 4:10:22 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Personal Responsibility
I'm still pissed about lucky charms. I consider this the equal to the "Irish need not apply" slogans of the late 1800's.
133 posted on 11/01/2005 4:13:48 PM PST by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Who? LOL!

To paraphrase Mr. E. Costello, "....I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused."

Sometimes a person does not have to try too hard.


134 posted on 11/01/2005 4:21:10 PM PST by porkchops 4 mahound (What ya gonna do?.......... Get REAL........ American CONSERVATIVE, not a Republican lapdog)
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To: lainie
BTW -- did you see that Madonna has come out with claws bared against Gwen? -snip- as if!

BTTT!! I missed that! I can barely stop laughing to type. Bwahahahaha. Madonna was never anything but skanky and Gwen is feminine and lovely. And is blessed with a beautiful voice. Unlike Madonna's well synthesized voice (and I even like a couple of Madonna's songs...).

135 posted on 11/01/2005 4:35:19 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: gopwinsin04

I love that romantic 40's era look she's going for in the Vogue shoot. No wonder Margaret and Madonna are jealous! I think Gwen's a natural brunette, but few can wear the platinum as well as she can!


136 posted on 11/01/2005 4:40:57 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: lainie; gopwinsin04
She is. She's finally matured enough that she no longer makes me cringe. In the early days, with every song being about Tony, and every interview being about Tony, it got to be too much. And the fashion from the middle years wasn't always so hot.

About the fashion, I agree somewhat, sometimes looked more like workout clothes. But otherwise, I disagree. She's quite versatile. I loved the torch songs about her unrequited love. Bathwater is still one of my favorites. And the way she sang them was/is amazing, too. Oh, and I did like the pink hair. Not a look for everyone, but it worked for Gwen the singer.

137 posted on 11/01/2005 4:46:31 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: fortunecookie

Oh, I didn't have a problem with them per se; I just thought the songs were ubiquitous. It was obvious for awhile that she was a girl with issues, so, I'm glad she moved on. We all do. I'm also glad to say her issues never dipped to Madonna lows!


138 posted on 11/01/2005 4:53:13 PM PST by lainie
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To: gopwinsin04
Did Wendy & Lisa complain that they were 'lesbians in blackface' when they were playing for the Revolution?

LOL, no indeed!

Margaret Cho is absolutely nuts, she's having the same meltdown that Rosie O' Doughnuts had once her career tanked.

LOL, meltdown indeed. I call them tantrums, too. Worse yet, Cho seems to be racebaiting, spreading hate where none exists. Or should I say, inserting hate where none exists. I love her style, too, and her music. I don't think I can get away with imitating her style, but I wish I could.

139 posted on 11/01/2005 4:54:46 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: RacerF150

It does look like Margaret has lost a few.


140 posted on 11/01/2005 4:56:25 PM PST by robomurph
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