'Here's the problem with giving Asian women a hair streak to let us know that they're cool: It only works if you assume that the majority of Asian women are meek and submissive.'
Here's the problem with giving Asian women a hair streak to let us know that they're cool: It only works if you assume that the majority of Asian women are meek and submissive. By saying, "this hair streak makes independent thinkers identifiable, and shows us that they're different from 'regular' Asian women," you're implying that any Asian woman who still has her natural hair color is part of an almost hive-like submission — and that simply isn't true.
I have yet to meet a single Asian woman in the real world who didn't have a rich internal life, and that's one of the many things that makes this trend so problematic. It suggests that these writers probably don't have a lot of dynamic Asian women in their lives; they're working off of a stereotype, and they assume that the rest of us will be, too.
If you're going to give us a rebellious Asian woman on the screen, that's great! But don't shoehorn in a hair streak so that the audience will be able to intuit her entire personality from it. Show us that she's an independent thinker. Show us that Asian women are just as diverse a group as any other, and use the words, actions, and interactions of your characters to make that obvious.
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