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Victoria's Secret comes out with a "Sexy Little Geisha" outfit.
And, oooh, the controversy:
The negative reactions began several weeks ago. On Racialicious, Nina Jacinto took Victoria's Secret to task for essentializing Asian identity and reducing "Eastern" culture to a stereotype of exotic sexuality. "It’s a narrative that says the culture can be completely stripped of its realness in order to fulfill our fantasies of a safe and non-threatening, mysterious East," she argues. Done at the corporate level, "it’s a troubling attempt to sidestep authentic representation and humanization of a culture and opt instead for racialized fetishizing against Asian women."
Cripes, we are not grade-school children! Can't we have a little fun sometimes? How can people have such a rarefied attitude and remain tolerant of the extreme economic inequality that people really have to live under?
(Source: ONTD)
And, oooh, the controversy:
The negative reactions began several weeks ago. On Racialicious, Nina Jacinto took Victoria's Secret to task for essentializing Asian identity and reducing "Eastern" culture to a stereotype of exotic sexuality. "It’s a narrative that says the culture can be completely stripped of its realness in order to fulfill our fantasies of a safe and non-threatening, mysterious East," she argues. Done at the corporate level, "it’s a troubling attempt to sidestep authentic representation and humanization of a culture and opt instead for racialized fetishizing against Asian women."
Cripes, we are not grade-school children! Can't we have a little fun sometimes? How can people have such a rarefied attitude and remain tolerant of the extreme economic inequality that people really have to live under?
(Source: ONTD)
