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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at margaretcho.net ...
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: freedomson
I am sure she still has fat ankles. All liberal women do.
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:29:04 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(Would you like a beer? No thanks, I will have a bud light.)
To: JohnnyZ
To: frogjerk
That is so much better than what it could have been ....
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:30:08 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
("She was appointed by a conservative. That ought to have been enough for us." -- NotBrilliant)
To: frogjerk
Did you know that Gloria Steinem is Batman's stepmom? Just another useless factoid.
24
posted on
11/01/2005 1:30:14 PM PST
by
Rastus
To: gopwinsin04
I am so offended!
:: he says as he downloads it to his hard drive ::
How dare you post such things!
;)
To: gopwinsin04
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:31:13 PM PST
by
Rastus
To: gopwinsin04
"Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls " ?
I am totally in the dark
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:31:29 PM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Holicheese
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.
28
posted on
11/01/2005 1:32:18 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
To: gopwinsin04
Japanese men think the schoolgirl outfits are the hottest thing going. Especially if they're really schoolgirls. Cho's just a jealous whore.
To: Holicheese
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.
30
posted on
11/01/2005 1:32:34 PM PST
by
Niteranger68
("Spare the rod, spoil the liberal.")
To: gopwinsin04
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.
31
posted on
11/01/2005 1:32:59 PM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Holicheese
"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.
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:33:05 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
To: gopwinsin04
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.
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:33:15 PM PST
by
untenured
(http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
To: wolfcreek
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.
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posted on
11/01/2005 1:34:39 PM PST
by
Rastus
To: nuconvert
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.
To: EQAndyBuzz
We call them Grankles- Grandma Ankles.
36
posted on
11/01/2005 1:38:06 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(Would you like a beer? No thanks, I will have a bud light.)
To: goushi
Margaret is just jealous.
37
posted on
11/01/2005 1:38:14 PM PST
by
cloud8
To: gopwinsin04
38
posted on
11/01/2005 1:39:04 PM PST
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: andyk
To: gopwinsin04
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"
40
posted on
11/01/2005 1:40:43 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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