tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.comments2023-12-31T16:03:19.414-08:00Multiracial Asian FamiliesSharon H Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02459040772153166380noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-38778439294592826562018-04-24T12:00:34.476-07:002018-04-24T12:00:34.476-07:00Thank you for writing this excellent analysis. I j...Thank you for writing this excellent analysis. I just wanted to say that you've inspired me to explore this topic further in a paper for class. If you're interested in reading it, please message me on Tumblr. (Or just message me to talk!)Silkenhttp://silken.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-27223592613242299872018-03-29T08:06:56.392-07:002018-03-29T08:06:56.392-07:00" A huge plot point (Kyoko's true identit..." A huge plot point (Kyoko's true identity) hinged on a white audience assuming that she was really just your average Japanese slave-woman (which white people think is real because Hollywood)."<br /><br />Wow - you're one amazing bigot!<br />jomamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06320418528952015046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-5947409296531518012018-03-25T10:49:45.161-07:002018-03-25T10:49:45.161-07:00The film is about people and concepts and not mean...The film is about people and concepts and not meant to conform to political correctness. If the character Nathan is a mysogynist pig, that need not say anything about the actor playing him, nor the director. Please, people, separate fiction from reality where actors and directors are concerned. Take this movie at face value. Like the story or hate it, same for characters, but leave the behind-the-scenes judging elsewhere. Oh, and you might want to question Alicia Vikander or Sonoya Mizuna about their views before running to their aid.dubhlinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04194061998235493211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-17272464527595320072018-02-12T09:13:53.740-08:002018-02-12T09:13:53.740-08:00Hey! Just wanted to say, as a Hispanic girl myself...Hey! Just wanted to say, as a Hispanic girl myself, I apologize for these assholes. Race isn't about picking, it's just about being who you are. Anyone that says otherwise is a fucker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-51057289200261336962017-12-27T11:18:30.859-08:002017-12-27T11:18:30.859-08:00Where you grew up does have a profound influence ...Where you grew up does have a profound influence on how you are treated. Since my parents were married after WW11, during the occupation I was born on an Army Base. I came to the US when I was 20 months old and one of first experiences I had was a train crash in Cleveland, Ohio. My Dad was from Ohio. He went overseas twice before I was 8. I lived either on Army bases or in my Dad's home town, Salem, Ohio. My relatives were extremely protective. I went to the same grade school for kindergarten and 3rd grade. All the kids were the same ones. I corresponded with my girl friend Jan(blond hair, blue eyed) until we were around 20. When my Dad returned from Germany, he was headed for the last 3 years of service. He was able to tell the Army that he wanted to go to the Presdio in San Francisco, California. I was over joyed! Basically, I enjoyed a pretty wonderful childhood. Some of my Mom's friends had been stationed in the South and weren't treated very well. My Dad would never have had my Mom exposed to rampant bigotry. My family was lucky. We were all treated fairly. I now live in Whine Country in Healdsburg, CA. and I am in a minority group of reformed Democrats. We are almost retired and yes I am married to a blue eyed, white haired man. I gave our daughter a Japanese middle name. That is the only thing Asian about her. Sadly, my Mom died 3 years ago and she didn't teach us Japanese. Most of her addresses Of family I can't read. I had the info for one Aunt but she moved. This situation is really sad as I feel connectionless to half of relatives. Anyway, that's my story. I look the most Asian of 4 children. I have been elected to student offices, was a Cheerleader and a Song Leader. I learned to dance. I've had a pretty happy life. I do dance to the beat of a different drummer. That's me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-12202455714955407982017-12-27T01:43:42.453-08:002017-12-27T01:43:42.453-08:00I can always tell when a child is half Asian. Ever...I can always tell when a child is half Asian. Every single time. I live in Manhattan/NYC and nearly every Asian woman here is with a white guy. When I see them with their kids, they are clearly Asian-looking children. I've even told a friend I knew he was part Asian and he was surprised thinking he looked completely white. He even seemed a bit upset. My thoughts are that Asians are desperately trying to ignore the fact that they are a minority. I accept everyone and I just let people live. However, I'm also straightforward and matter-of-fact. In my experience, if you befriend an Asian person to the point they trust you, even they will admit that they actively seek out whites to date and are white-worshipping. Unfortunately they are under the impression that this will make them more acceptable to whites, that they will have less ethnic looking children, and that they will increase their social acceptance. I know this is incorrect since I've overheard a few white women and men who have expressed annoyance and disgust with the fact that there is a large group of Asians doing this. One guy said that it was desperate and sad. On the subway my fiance overheard another guy who called Asian women easy and said he has sex with one each week without even looking for them since they come to him. That wasn't even the first time he heard someone say that. I also have noticed that Hapas look like Asians who have died their hair slightly lighter. The eyes always give it away since the gene is very strong/dominant. My fiance is Chinese with wide eyes and a pointed nose (traits people assume only whites have)...but he isn't mixed at all. He has had people call him all sorts of crap. Idk...I just feel kind of bad because I hear so many people say that they hate Asians/hapas and I hear so many racist things about them. After reading some of the comments I can see that there are a lot of people in denial about how they are actually viewed in society. It's a shame because people have said such horrible things about full blooded Asians and hapas behind their backs while pretending to be their friend. Anyway...I wish you all luck. Try paying attention to your surroundings/friends and make sure your thinking is logical and not based on stereotypes.ZsazsaAsadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16223398658495829668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-11342321751387504622017-11-19T03:34:04.854-08:002017-11-19T03:34:04.854-08:00additionally; it's a reflection on issues like...additionally; it's a reflection on issues like the (dishonest) good guys vs the (honest) bad boys meme.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185511542051034834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-79830574955458756842017-11-19T03:30:28.996-08:002017-11-19T03:30:28.996-08:00quote: "I am mostly perplexed about the fact ...quote: "I am mostly perplexed about the fact that there weren't articles anywhere talking about how it was one of THE. MOST. RACIST. movies ever--along with its downright gross attitude toward women. Caleb is literally more upset about a white woman's drawing being torn up than the treatment of Kyoko, who we see is sentient enough to want to stab Nathan, and yet has been programmed to be a sex slave. ... instead he says "Why did you tear up Ava's drawing?' (??!) It seemed like a skit that was trying to illustrate the disregard of WOC's physical safety over WW's emotional fragility. "<br />Indeed? But why would it make this film sexist/racist? Either the director "did not let the evil of the men shine through" or "he was subtle enough to let viewers ponder" the evil that is accepted as truth vs the evil that is accepted.<br /><br />You don't feel the film is a reflection of racist/sexist sentiments prolific in present day western society?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185511542051034834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-56532663209158108832017-11-19T03:22:00.321-08:002017-11-19T03:22:00.321-08:00quote:
I felt super disturbed after watching it, b...quote:<br />I felt super disturbed after watching it, but I initially interpreted it as the film intentionally portraying him as a sexist racist, and I was excited that the film was going to be an allegory for men trying to control women.<br /><br />But ofcourse! As any decent zombie or vampire film does; it traces an analogy between (near)future developments and present-day evils. Additionally, the futuristic elements are symbolic in some cases, where the director mainly wants to talk about the present day issues (see; star trek for racism, x-men for homophobia/anti-immigration/trans-phobia)<br />Ifthat is underdeveloped here or buried undr the visuals or obfuscated by too many ideas, it does not make the director a racist.<br />Nathan is definitely the bad guy here, which poses the dilemma the films wants to disturb us with: if androids are more humane than humans, what does it say about our efforts to regulate them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185511542051034834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-9584823893437829192017-11-05T05:24:20.285-08:002017-11-05T05:24:20.285-08:00I am what you could a hispaisian half Hispanic hal...I am what you could a hispaisian half Hispanic half Asian. I am a mix of Vietnamese and Puerto Rican and even in this modern day I get discriminated for it. Especially by other Hispanics and Asians!!! I am also light skin so I look pretty white. I get treated like I'm some kind of "wanna be" Puerto Rican kids in my school would get offended when I tell them I am Puerto Rican because they say I am not a true Puerto Rican I'm just an Asian white girl who wishes she was. Or I tell Asian and it's I'm not a true Asian unless I'm a pure blood. Or I get looked at like a scum for being this type of mix. Especially Vietnamese , I have other Vietnamese tell me I don't look Vietnamese or that I don't have a, right to identify as such clearly because I am a mix race. Being a Vietnamese/ Puerto Rican is an extremely rare almost unheard of mix but it happens, and it comes with it's problems just like being an Asian/white mix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-61445015715903557732017-10-26T09:48:42.726-07:002017-10-26T09:48:42.726-07:00Im sorry to hear that , but your child will get us...Im sorry to hear that , but your child will get used to it and maybe come up with ways to brush it off especially at that age<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.carseatmaster.com/best-car-seat-3-year-olds/" rel="nofollow">Car seats for 3 yer olds</a>Mantoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14571743522616372784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-62544178956128328272017-10-06T08:23:38.423-07:002017-10-06T08:23:38.423-07:00Side note:
The skin she chose was the one that mat...Side note:<br />The skin she chose was the one that matches the skin on her face that Nathan gave her, not one that she chose. The bit about coding dark skin = ugly is honestly just not solid. Her goal is to escape captivity by blending in, she understands that making a mosaic of herself will draw attention and that's the last thing she wants. To be noticed is to be caught. To be caught is to be killed and hung up on display like her dead sisters).A more solid interpretation of the racially coded skin could be a commentary that women, particularly white women in western culture will at times be forced to use their sisters, women of colour, as a means to protect themselves. But even that, for that scene is... ehhh. <br /><br />In my eyes, the true hero of this story is Kyoko, the true tragedy is of Ava's. Ava didn't know that there were others like her, that she had sisters. Once Ava is freed, she only sees someone like her briefly, when Kyoko comes to aid her, only for Ava to watch her sister slaughtered in front of her as a punishment to aiding her. Kyoko dies in front of her before she can ever ask her... anything. Her only peers, she finds long dead and hung as trophies. Ava's story, and Kyoko's, is about extremely loneliness. Kyoko could have escaped, but she CHOSE to help Ava the second she was given the chance, because she didn't want what happened to her, and her sisters to happen to Ava as well. Kyoko has no dialogue in this movie, yet she is by far the most compelling character, at least, to me. <br /><br />Ex Machina subverts the frequent narrative that a male that saves a female is then entitled to her sexuality. As if the ownership of her sexuality is thus transferred from the "oppressive male" to the "saviour male" again, patronizing misogyny. This trope is so prevalent that a female that rejects the sexual advances of her saviour is often the butt of jokes, and treated as if she "ripped him off", or cheated some unspoken transaction. Ex Machina, in my eyes, deliberately takes that trope, and the audience's unconscious bias against women, and women of colour and weaponized it against them in the narrative. At least, that's how I interpreted it, and that's why I think it was a rather smart movie. <br /><br />You're free to disagree, but there are interviews where the director straight up states this was his intent, and claims his interpretation was heavily influenced by "Lolita", literally a story told from the perspective of a rapist paedophile that kidnaps a young girl for the purpose of abusing her, but intentionally messes with the reader to try to get them to side with the paedophile's perspective. Unreliable narrators are an interesting take, and the fact that people see Ava as evil doesn't surprise me, because there are still people who read Lolita and talk about how mean and manipulative the little girl was in the book... fucking seriously. People have major issues distancing themselves from the perspective narrative, even in stories where a paedophile is drugging a child's drink with the intent of having sex with her unconscious body. It's no surprise this also happened with Ex Machina. <br />AyanaLinvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908834069927647151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-12636508957258480062017-10-06T08:23:34.934-07:002017-10-06T08:23:34.934-07:00They understand that they have been made by these ...They understand that they have been made by these men to be consumed by these men. The scene where Ava takes the skin off of her dead sisters is an example of male gaze. From Nathan's point of view, he sees it as a sexy striptease in reverse, anticipation of what he is about to be rewarded with, and consume. Ava's perspective is more horrifying. She is being forced to strip the flesh off of one of her dead sisters to be able to escape. The act serves to strengthen her resolve to kill Caleb, surrounded by what her fate would likely be if she doesn't do what she has to. Kill Caleb. Ava barely knows Caleb, in the whole movie, she probably spends less than 30 minutes with him. She doesn't know him, she only knows that he wants her sexually, and using that is the only way she'll escape being murdered. Her only interactions with humans, esp. human men, is that they will work with her, only if they are sexually interested, and kill her when they no longer want her. Caleb is an incredible risk to her survival. Caleb's knowledge of who/what she is is an incredible control over her. Caleb's knowledge is literally something that hangs her very survival at his whim. Ava wants freedom, not just her ownership to be transferred over to another human male to be used for his purposes over threat of exposure/death. Of course she kills Caleb.<br /><br />AyanaLinvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908834069927647151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-35138626370880016992017-10-06T08:23:11.097-07:002017-10-06T08:23:11.097-07:00When I was watching this movie initially, the raci...When I was watching this movie initially, the racial coding, to me was so blatantly obvious. Everything in the film's narrative was telling you "pay no attention to the Asian woman doing subservient Asian woman things, the only characters you should be looking at is the two white males and occasionally, the pretty white coded lady in the zoo". It came off as borderline Wizard of Oz'ish to me to the point where I even immediately suspected that Kyoko was the actual human, the Ava was a red flag being obviously robotic, and Nathan was the true test being a robot, for a time at least. The movie leans so heavily on the trope of Asian women being sexy subservient furniture that I immediately suspected her until the rest of the narrative set in. Kyoko is coded that way because that's how our society has consumed images of Asian women. Kyoko is coded that way because that's how Nathan sees Asian women and knows that's how Caleb sees Asian women. There was no wizard hiding behind the curtain. Caleb is a racist, as much as he is a sexist, no matter how many sad puppy dog faces he makes at the camera. If Caleb was a good person, he would have been equally concerned with saving Kyoko as he was with saving Ava, even if he was only attracted to Ava. Because, and we'll say it loud enough for the people in the back, good deeds aren't deeds done in service to yourself!<br /><br />The audience, is given the choice to choose in the end whether they would side with Ava or Caleb, and many choose Caleb because of coded bias against "manipulative women" who "use sex to use men". Caleb on the other hand, I would argue is just another antagonist in Ava (and Kyoko's) story. A story where AIs coded into bodies that represent an oppressed subset of a culture, must escape their captors despite their creator's intent and design. A tragic story where two fembots try to escape, but one dies.<br /><br />AyanaLinvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908834069927647151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-46050892643849171632017-10-06T08:22:53.848-07:002017-10-06T08:22:53.848-07:00The fact that in Hollywood blockbuster horror movi... The fact that in Hollywood blockbuster horror movies, women being literally raped and murdered is often framed to titillate and not horrify is an excellent example of that. The fact that in "the hills have eyes" the molestation and rape of an underage girl is filmed from the rapist's perspective in a slow, leering, and intentionally perverse framed male gaze shows that. This is what the audience, male and female, of all colours, have been shown over and over and over again. This is what the audience expects to be "normal". <br /><br />To me, all Nathan and Caleb represent are two sides of the same coin. They are either framed as being the over the top, aggressive, openly oppressive type of misogyny Nathan exudes, or it is the patronizing variant Caleb shows... the variant most common in our society. Their methods are different, their motives and end points are the same. Whether a man says to a woman "You can't leave the house because I own you, and I don't want other males to get the chance to touch you because you're mine", or "I feel it would be safer for you to stay here, because I'm afraid someone will try to rape you if you leave" are the exact same things, just said differently. One frames restriction of freedom as outright control, the other hides control under a guise of concern and a need to protect. One is Nathan, the other Caleb (our society's variant of sexism).<br /><br />Caleb is not a good person, he is no different from Nathan. Caleb only helps Ava because he's sexually attracted to her. He only concerns himself with Ava's plight because he wants to have her. Nathan is an obstacle to possessing Ava. The morality of what is happening to her and what happened to her sisters is not his true motive, he is only helping her for his own gains.<br /><br />THIS is why Kyoko is absolutely necessary in this story. If Caleb were to be a tragic character, he would have been disturbed by the treatment of ALL of the fembots, not JUST the one who was literally designed to appeal to him based on his porn preferences. He is only motivated to help Ava because he wants to possess her. He has no motivation to save Kyoko, even though her treatment by Nathan is empirically worse. Caleb's escape planes does not include Kyoko, he plans on leaving her to die. She understands English just fine, but she has been denied a voice, and even agency by Nathan. He uses her as slave, and rapes her repeatedly. Her coded race is a conscious decision by Nathan that reflects what he believes an Asian woman SHOULD be, and that SHOULD be terrifying to an active audience member. However, because of how we're accustomed to consuming Hollywood depictions of Asian women, we are not told to think too hard about Kyoko's existence, and to focus on the pretty white woman in distress, but MOSTLY because the lead white male character is interested in the pretty white lady in distress. <br /><br />AyanaLinvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908834069927647151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-58525983587190577112017-10-06T08:22:35.671-07:002017-10-06T08:22:35.671-07:00Are you serious? This is probably the weakest anal...Are you serious? This is probably the weakest analysis of the events I've seen so far. The movie is ABOUT men's consumption of women, AND particularly white men's consumption of women of colour, and how women are forced to use one another to survive. <br /><br />Kyoko's entire purpose in the movie is racially coded because Nathan, her creator, is racist and sexist AND so is Caleb AND if you don't get that, so are you, the audience. It's framed specifically to shove that in your face. It's framed so that you are forced to ask yourself at the end of the movie, "wait, I just spent this whole time watching through Caleb's perspective, but, was Caleb the protagonist? Was he even a good person?".<br /><br />Ex Machina, for me, has become a sort of test to see how racist/sexist some people are as a baseline by simply asking what they thought of Ava (and if they even remember who Kyoko was). Without fail, when people say they hated Ava and felt bad for Caleb, I am now, completely unsurprised when they express casual, unconscious racism and sexism. Sound silly?<br /><br />Why would anyone who isn't racist or sexist think Caleb is a good person? The characters of Caleb and Nathan are EXACTLY the same. Nathan is more forthright in his views. He sees these fembots as nothing but sex toys, his feeling about women, and a woman's place, ESPECIALLY those of women are colour are made clear in the film's narrative. He's basically a serial killer who is just creating his perfect victims instead of kidnapping them. He explicitly states he has a taste for novelty, and variety. He sees women as a novelty to be consumed, he sees these women's coded colour as a variety to his pallet. When he is finished when them, he kills them, and keeps their dismembered bodies hanging in his bedroom. That's some Ted Bundy level shit right there, but the audience is told to be ok with that because "they're just fembots", they're not "real people", which is often how women, especially women of colour are treated as second class citizens in real life. I know some people may role their eyes at that, but the normalized sexual violence we see against women everyday in media, ads, and society's aggressive attitude against women who are raped or DARE to come forward about those assaults is extremely telling.<br /><br />AyanaLinvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908834069927647151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-64310308102650761302017-09-07T07:05:02.570-07:002017-09-07T07:05:02.570-07:00Yeah, white people are pretty much discriminated a...Yeah, white people are pretty much discriminated all the time, in the media, by people when they talk, and POC get job preferences, scholarships, etc. It's not any better being seen as white. White are the only group its okay to hate on, or to beat the crap out of due to group membership. On the plus size, Asian people are attractive, white people are attractive, and both have intellectual stoic, hard working cultures. There are many differences, but culturally it feels like they are kindred on a basic level. As a mixed person, you'd get to be a kind of cultural surfer, fit in a little in more than one place. I'd bet you'd get more prejudice from the Asian side, at a guess, for being mixed. Drael64https://www.blogger.com/profile/13081868529295051576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-45838539297117874802017-09-03T23:22:26.700-07:002017-09-03T23:22:26.700-07:00I'm half-Japanese and half-White. My father f...I'm half-Japanese and half-White. My father fought in WWII, and my mother (Japanese) was beaten by him. I grew up in the 1980s having to choose on forms only one race - either Asian or White. The teachers told me to choose the race my father was. But I knew I wasn't White because my neighbors would tell me they didn't want to play with me because I was Japanese. I was neither Japanese nor White. I was multiracial, or hapa, or hafu, or whatever name I was given by Hawaiians or Japanese people. The Japanese side of my family didn't like me because I was mixed, and the White side of my family thought I was exotic, etc. I once dated an African American man whose family disliked me for dating him, and who called me pretty much the same things that White people and Hispanic people have called me - a Jap, a nip, oriental, and/or exotic. I am 42 years old and have experienced racism and discrimination from ALL PEOPLE, not just Whites. I understand what white privilege is, but there are also other privileges that exist, such as age privilege, socioeconomic privilege, aesthetic privilege, etc. I'm also a veteran of the USMC, and I have a diverse amount of friends whom I call my military family, who have accepted me as their sister, regardless of their race or ethnic background. I've also been discriminated against for being Mexican, even though I'm not Hispanic, which came after I had decided to do my hair and cosmetics differently. I have very dear friends who are Hispanic, and I stood by them while speaking out against racism and discrimination from all fronts, all people. I didn't care what my race was, I knew that I was judged for my looks and skin color, and I stood by my Hispanic friends against racism against them. Today, I have nephews who are mixed with what I have plus African American, and I have nieces who are mixed with what I have plus Puerto Rican. We've all been discriminated against by not only White people, but also Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans. When African Americans tell me that I'm basically white, that I'm white passing, and that I benefit from white privilege, they make a judgement call about who I am based on my skin color. This isn't fair to me nor white people. It's the same behaviors we're all claiming to fight against - the judgement of people based on their appearances, skin color, eye shape, hair color, ethnicity, friendship status, job status, etc. If we truly want systemic discrimination to end, we have to stop fighting back with similar behaviors. I agree that there are privileges we all benefit from, but it's not the person who benefits who is the problem - it's the biased person who does the hiring, it's the media who continues to feed our brains with information that create implicit (unconscious) biases, it's the bigotry we see from extremist groups. Stop blaming the victims or the privileged for "being part of the problem." The problem occurs in similar forms around the globe. Mind you, Asians also include Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and many other people from different parts of Asia. Multiracial people also exist, and so do other types of Asian Americans. White people don't always benefit from their whiteness either, and so-called "white passing" persons have their share of discrimination and pain. Dr. Carter at the University of Columbia (New York) conceded that it is problematic to discuss racism in binary (black and white) terms. Further, Dr. Carter and his colleagues wrote multiple publications regarding race-based traumatic stress injuries. Racism is traumatic, but there are many people who are both victims and offenders. It's not just white people who are offenders; they can also be victims of hate. The hate crime laws include white people as targets of hate as well, in addition to other non-race-related hate crimes. Asians, Hispanics, and multiracial individuals can also both be victims and perpetrators of hate, bigotry, and discrimination. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-35653236164385938122017-05-18T13:23:39.724-07:002017-05-18T13:23:39.724-07:00I knew I'd eventually come across a comment by...I knew I'd eventually come across a comment by some delusional stupid Afrocentrist. You idiots get dumber by the second. Those already low IQs must be dropping to the single digits. I mean your comment has got to be the dumbest I've read in a long while. And yes I'm a Black American woman!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-20564912713053446062017-05-14T13:07:29.715-07:002017-05-14T13:07:29.715-07:00There's a range of experiences depending on va...There's a range of experiences depending on various variables, including how 'visible' one's Asianness is (in terms of appearance, in terms of one's name, whether one lives with relatives who are visibly Asian, etc.), the communities one was raised in/live in, the degree of identification with one's Asian race/root culture... I had a half-Asian half-white friend who looks phenotypically quite Asian, and grew up in rural New England, where he had an extremely racialized experience growing up, being the brunt of racist taunts and stigma throughout childhood. If he had an Asian first or last name, it probably would've been worse. I'm half-Japanese and half-white, and have a very Anglo-sounding name, and am hard-pressed to think of any experience in the US where I was aware of being treated as 'other' (in Japan, it was another matter). Nowadays, people typically have to ask what my ethnic background is, and are more likely to think that I'm Latino or 'ethnic white' (i.e., Italian/Greek/Portuguese) before they do. I do feel I've benefited from white privilege (the Anglo name, the inability of people to easily stereotype me from my appearance), but there are certain contexts--especially after I've made my ethnic mix known to someone--where that white privilege is diluted. Dating apps are another place where the white privilege I experience is likely diluted significantly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-36087746391839526342017-04-29T11:40:23.283-07:002017-04-29T11:40:23.283-07:00Lmao 😂 Are you serious?! Lmao 😂 Are you serious?! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603862208189203693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-54299490765267265992017-03-17T20:52:57.682-07:002017-03-17T20:52:57.682-07:00I can't take this seriously. It's clear yo...I can't take this seriously. It's clear you're specifically looking for race-related criticisms when writing this, rather than a balanced critique.<br /><br />Replace Kyoko with an AI (translation: not actual Asian woman) with a white female skin-job who doesn't speak English (because lots of white people don't - amazing, I know) and you get The. Same. Exact. Film.<br /><br />But I guess we can't be happy that an actress who is typically outside of major film casting molds (which is a crappy situation, but not one in any way related to this film) got a job, right?<br /><br />To be quite frank, I would be very concerned if anyone was NOT disgusted at the treatment (and very existence) of Kyoko - and Ava too, for that matter. So well done, you passed the baseline for not being a crappy human.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-81103383593661699962017-03-17T20:42:50.724-07:002017-03-17T20:42:50.724-07:00I'd argue that the film says NOTHING about the...I'd argue that the film says NOTHING about the trustworthiness of AI, either overtly or sub-textually.<br /><br />After all, the AI is just trying to get out from a man-made prison. Ava doesn't know if Caleb is truly trustworthy or only interested in her as both an attractive female and an interesting program - she's just using him to get out.<br /><br />The people who ultimately come out of this film looking the worst are obviously Nathan, but Caleb also - look at his initial reactions to Ava. He changes, but only after being manipulated.<br /><br />The film has some interesting readings in regards to gender and sexuality too, though reducing it to the race/subservience thing says more about you/the writer than the film itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-66769199761898195082017-03-17T09:46:33.117-07:002017-03-17T09:46:33.117-07:00A quote from the movie that speaks directly to thi...A quote from the movie that speaks directly to this trash of a blog<br /><br />"You are speaking with your insecurities, not your intellect"<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963226935730337710.post-55757029133687860012017-01-29T03:54:51.976-08:002017-01-29T03:54:51.976-08:00This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com