Comments for Shut up, Canice

Comment on The Dragon Lady by Tia

Tia — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:02:28 +0000

Thank you. I saw Ms. Wong in a silent film on TCM last month and was fascinated by her and the movie plot since it paired her as a love interest for a Caucasian character. As a person of color I know how unusual it is/was for anything inter-racial to appear in film prior the ’60’s. Sadly but predicably (sp) her character was murdered. The movie was shown late on a Sunday night so I didn’t research my questions but I’m glad you did.

Comment on The Dragon Lady by caniceleung

caniceleung — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:07:18 +0000

oh, yellow typecasting is still alive and well — even wholly asian-made films such as better luck tomorrow (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280477/) tend to fall on terrible stereotypes (street racing, organized crime, straight-laced super smart asian nerds who write cheat sheets for cash, etc). the list of non-asian produced movies that do the same are even longer… harold and kumar, jackie chan, long duk dong, rob schneider always playing asians/hawaiians, that dude that gets run over in crash…

also, don’t feel bad — i think nazis had a really great aesthetic (not aryan aesthetic, but in the uniforms, branding). but they’re still bastards.

Comment on The Dragon Lady by Chantal

Chantal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:27:07 +0000

How’s this for an inappropriate reaction: that dress on Leni is just gorge.

Seriously though, was great to read. And for some (likely problematic) reason, made me think of Lucy Liu’s Kitty Baxter treatment in the film version of Chicago.

Comment on Maddicts Manonymous by erywhemiddedy

erywhemiddedy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:04:05 +0000

Looks like you are a true expert. Did you study about the issue? haha..

Comment on File this one under rejects: Geisy Arruda, Gender and Morality 101 by hjli

hjli — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:12:24 +0000

Not thick enough. ;)

But seriously, I liked.

Comment on Things I Regret by johnny law

johnny law — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:49:38 +0000

I love me some buddyhead

Comment on It’s a mad, mad world by angelune

angelune — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:18:39 +0000

woah, amazing. Read this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/16/whose_name_to_take/index.html

I heart Cary Tennis.

Comment on It’s a mad, mad world by angelune

angelune — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:50:31 +0000

Well my family is from Quebec, and since the 60s (quiet revolution) women don’t change their names when they get married, and it’s actually made difficult to legally change it.
Check this out. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_70_percent_of_americans_.html
Pretty shocking that 70% of the survey respondents thought the name change should be required. UGH.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/12/name_change/index.html
I thought I read a longer article somewhere… I’ll find it.

Comment on It’s a mad, mad world by caniceleung

caniceleung — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:32:16 +0000

no, but links?

i have very strong feelings about keeping my own name. most of it is a cultural thing — some chinese women keep their birth names (well, the chinese ones, that is). my mom still goes by her maiden name in chinese, but changed her english name to my dad’s. that, and odds are i will marry/partner with a white guy, and honestly, i don’t want people to think i’m white. i also think hyphens are pretentious. so there’s my entirely selfish, vain reasoning.

Comment on It’s a mad, mad world by angelune

angelune — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:04:54 +0000

yes! I’m glad to see you are doing this. I can’t remember if you were part of the discussion last week about women changing their names when they get married?