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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: fortunecookie
Did Wendy & Lisa complain that they were 'lesbians in blackface' when they were playing for the Revolution?

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

And I love her style: Gwen

81 posted on 11/01/2005 2:39:10 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: oyez
I think MS Cho likes fashions that puts women in leather or burlap...

Or in Ms Cho's lap! : )

82 posted on 11/01/2005 2:39:46 PM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: gopwinsin04

Who cares what a short, fat, angry, lesbian Bush-hater thinks?


83 posted on 11/01/2005 2:46:26 PM PST by stinkerpot65
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To: gopwinsin04

... and she is a truly nice person. My daughter got to meet her at a Tommy Hilfeger (sp?) fashion show i LA in the mid nineties and she was absolutely gracious and humble (as a matter of fact she was worried that she didn't do a good enough job on their set). OTOH Cheryl Crow (sp?) was also there and was a stuck up beotch.


84 posted on 11/01/2005 2:46:58 PM PST by antceecee
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To: SaltyJoe
Look at how much Gwen hates the Asians! She actually talks to them and gives one an interview at the Grammys...


85 posted on 11/01/2005 2:48:06 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Well, I only saw them once, and they weren't in "school girl" outfits, but in cheerleader outfits. I didn't really understand why there were there at all, since she was doing her own version of "If I Were a Rich Man," from "Fidler on the Roof."

Somehow, it was different from when Topol did it...

Mark


86 posted on 11/01/2005 2:48:49 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: antceecee

That is what suprises me about Gwen too, she has been so famous for a very long time and is still gracious and kind. Very rare nowadays....


87 posted on 11/01/2005 2:50:53 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Two Asian women in high profile roles that are far more attractive that Maggie...

Linda Park from Star Trek, Enterprise

and

Grace Park (not related) from Battlestar Galactica

Mark

88 posted on 11/01/2005 2:55:18 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: Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro

Not me, but I'm guessing it's right up Martin's alley!


89 posted on 11/01/2005 2:57:31 PM PST by pissant
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To: JohnnyZ

                            Fook Me, Austin, Fook Yu
90 posted on 11/01/2005 2:57:52 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: MarkL
'Rich Girl' feat. Eve

'All the riches baby, won't mean anything, all the riches baby is nothing compared to what your love can bring.

All the riches baby, wont need no other thing baby--your love is better than gold and diamonds.' apologies to Tevvye

91 posted on 11/01/2005 2:57:58 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Rastus
I don't know anything about Harajuku Girls, but they must be something to celebrate if this sow doesn't like them.

I don't know anything in particular about Gwen Stefani's 'Harajuku Girls', but Harajuku is a district in Tokyo, where the 'Goth Lolita' look is popular. On Sunday's at 10 am, girls dressed up in their Goth Lolita costumes gather there and just hang out admiring each other's costumes. The guys are there admiring the girls, too.

92 posted on 11/01/2005 3:00:18 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: MarkL
How about the luscious Julie Chen of CBS Early Show?


93 posted on 11/01/2005 3:02:09 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: TC Rider
Naw, she ought to go after nicely rounded Latina ladies if she wants a real challenge to feed jealousy:


94 posted on 11/01/2005 3:04:37 PM PST by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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To: gopwinsin04

I think she's jealous of Gwen and the girls


95 posted on 11/01/2005 3:09:07 PM PST by earlyamerican
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To: fortunecookie
Some more 'real' Harajuku girls.


96 posted on 11/01/2005 3:11:13 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Didn't she date Quentin Tarantino before turning gay? That'll do it, ya know.


97 posted on 11/01/2005 3:14:13 PM PST by Hildy
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To: earlyamerican
I almost feel sorry for Ms. Cho, consigned to a life of traveling in Motel 6's to dingy lesbian dives and comedy clubs to eke out a living after she had her own ABC prime time sitcom.

If she could have stuck it out another 2-3 years, those syndication profits could have made her rich!

98 posted on 11/01/2005 3:14:23 PM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Yes, he did.

drooling

99 posted on 11/01/2005 3:17:06 PM PST by Mamba56 ("You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting." - Gen. Curtis LeMay)
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To: frogjerk

She looks like her choker is too tight. Too bad that wasn't it.

100 posted on 11/01/2005 3:17:09 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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