The May 13, 2013 online issue of the Daily Mail has
a full section on Lucy Liu where she says:
'I wish people wouldn't just see me as the emotionless Asian girl'
No culture loves the Asian woman more than does the contemporary Western culture. Or I should be more specific: No male loves Asian women more than does the contemporary white Western male. No male abandons his own women as does the contemporary white Western male.
So it baffles me why an Asian female star complains as Lucy Liu does here:
I can’t say that there is no racism - there’s definitely something there that’s not easy, which makes [an acting career] much more difficult.She continues:
I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add race to it, and it became, "Well, she’s too Asian", or, "She’s too American".Perhaps what we are seeing is the threshold of the much-praised Asian talent. I've noticed in fashion designers, university students and other environments where Asians have been touted, that they peak at a sub-par level (they peak at a level lower than whites). And, at least in Canada, they begin the usual race-related complaints of "racism" and ask for such handouts as affirmative action positions in university programs (which I've written about here, and related posts here and here).
So, Perhaps there is a little thing called talent, which Liu isn't able to deliver adequately. I watched for a little while Liu's break-out role as Ling Woo in Ally McBeal. This is how Wikipeida describes her:
Ling Woo's character has been described as the antithesis of Ally McBeal's. For example, Woo is portrayed as evil, McBeal as good; Woo growls, McBeal purrs.At the same time, Woo's verbal assaults present a fantasy of authority that appeals to even McBeal...First, Liu had the option to refuse the role. Second, the fact that she accepted it, and acted the role for so many years, shows that she must agree with, or like, certain aspects of that role. Finally, stereotypes are a simplistic way to categorize people, but they are not untrue, and help with social interactions (a sales-girl behaves like a sales-girl and is treated like a sales-girl, for example), otherwise ever day interactions would be long, laborious and ultimately impossible.
The character's main function was to inject into the show "sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure, intense energy" - elements long associated with the Orient in Western culture, according to Orientalism author Edward Said. Ling brings to mind the geisha, the unreadable Oriental, and the dragon lady. Describing her as "fearsome, devouring, vicious, cool," and with an "exotic sexuality", Georgia State University professor Greg Smith sees Woo as a stereotype of Asian women, a "Dragon Lady".
Her character was frequently used to examine matters related to gender definition and topics. Ling is the only major character in Ally McBeal who does not have a story for the origin of her particular neurosis. She is exempt from the psychoanalytic focus given to others in the series, which Smith attributes to her Asian "mysteriousness".
On a side note, Ally McBeal (played by Callista Flockhart) acts like a typical white woman who is ready to prostate herself before exotic foreigners. It is no wonder that white men are running like droves towards Asian women. Who want a victim-centered woman as a partner?
"She's my hero", says McBeal [of Ling], "she's vicious, I disagree with almost everything she says, she treats me like dirt, and somehow she's my hero."
Rather than white men coming to the rescue of their women, they allow them to deteriorate like the Ally McBeal character. And when this happens, they abandon them for what they perceive as a better prize.
I don't blame white women. It is the responsibility of their men to help them behave like women. But, in this hypocritical world of feminist men, why should they? White feminist women can go on fighting the battle of "equality and fairness" while white men can find the more accommodating wife at home.
Asian women are clever. They know what the stakes are, and they know they have to play the game. They will be as "feminine" as they can. Their gains are to high, materialistically - a prestigious husband (any white male is prestigious, regardless of real social standing), a good income, or the potential of a good income, and half-white children adding more to the prestige. But I wonder what really goes on behind these marriages? I've witnessed, in public, vocal arguments between white men and their Asian companions (wife, girlfriend, friend?), which I write about here.
And I'm seeing many young Asian women with white women "friends." Often, the Asian woman is smartly dressed, slim and attractive. The white women is sloppy, overweight and often too friendly-looking. Such a white woman becomes a source of white men - her brothers, her family friends, her natural affinity for other white men - from which this Asian "friend" can start her pickings.
And white men oblige.
They will be judged.
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Lucy Liu has never been married, although she was engaged once.
Lucy Liu with George Clooney in 2000
Lucy Liu with Zack Helm in 2003
Lucy Liu with Wladimir Klitschko in 2008, with one of her paintings
Liu with Noam Gottesman in 2010
Lucy Liu with Soon-to-be-Divorced Michael C. Hall in 2010
Lucy Liu with Maretto in 2011
Lucy Liu with Johnny Lee Miller in 2012
The married Johnny Lee Miller says: "If you're going to spend a lot of time with someone, you really need to be able to get on with them."
"But one of the main attractions was Johnny," says Liu about accepting her role in the TV series Elementary.
Another conquest for 2013?
Lucy Liu (2013) and Will McCormack (2012)
Even for a modern woman, Lucy Liu's list of lovers is very long (she's only been married once. This supports my theory that Asian women are more difficult to be around than white women when all other factors are weighed in (i.e. feminism, wealth, years of education, years married, etc.).
And with Liu's erratic lifestyle of a "movie star" all these negatives are more pronounced than they would be in a white woman. She's never been married, although engaged once.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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