The Duchess discussed Hollywood caricatures of East Asian women along with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho, and addressed the “toxic stereotyping” East Asian women face in Hollywood and the films that have played into these tropes.
was also criticised for the character O-Ren Ishii, played by Lucy Lui, who was described by writer India Roby as a stereotypical ‘dragon lady’ who “uses her sexuality as a powerful tool of manipulation, but often is emotionally and sexually cold and threatens masculinity”.Lizzo is well and truly over harmful stereotypes about plus-size women, and we’re here for it: “The dragon lady really comes from this sort of fantasy of orientalism.
Cho, who grew up in San Francisco, says she “never saw Asian people” on screen when she was growing up, and so she “never felt seen anywhere”.
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