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.

[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)

[Husker8877]

The idea of Gwen Stefani together with her harajuku girls at my place is the best present I can have to sign off with today...

[Michael.SF.]

Did you just come back from:

www.xxxschoolgirlsxxx.com?

[texassizednightcrawler]

Isn't that a Ronnie James Dio face?

[puroresu]

The Japanese schoolgirl look rocks! No wonder Cho hates it. It's cute!

[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!

[wickedpinto]

If you prefer I could get started on the barbarella thing, or the . . . Grrrrrrr. Princess Leia Slave outfit. But that isn't the topic. The topic is schoolgirls. I was just trying to expand the conversation as it concerns the schoolgirl uniform.

Though if you wanna start a thread about Princess Leia I'm all for it. :)

[gopwinsin04]

I like the way you think. (even for a Husker fan, lol)

[Feiny]

I need to get me a few Harajuku girls....they will make me look taller.

[antceecee]

Very cute. I love Gwen and most of her music.

[TC Rider]

Margaret is just jealous.

Her lame, short lived, tv sitcom sure did plenty to reinforce stereotypes of Korean women and their mothers.

Who will LesCho go after next? German barmaids in traditional serving garb?