Re: 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before' Has Creepy Racial Things Going On | Plan A Magazine

(MyBad64)
This movie is an excellent reminder of the lingering pseudo-, false-, 1980’s style liberal take on AF representation of what it’s supposed to be like for an Asian-American (Canadian) teen. Movies like this were made to frame the narrative of WMs were the natural partner for AFs back then (a tsunami of them,with nothing showing the opposite or any different couplings). People haven’t discussed the normalization of this in Disney, Nickelodeon and other kids channels which also exclusively pair young Asian girls with white boys with no Asian boy in sight (except maybe Ravi an Indian-American boy, there are no East Asian-American looking boy). Solid work of imprinting and propaganda work to frame Asian boys and girls psyche on their future place in the American gendered racial caste system.

(Kenzo89)
This is a great article. This story seems to literally be the dream world of white worshipping AF who want a world with only white men and only Asian women. She even made the father white so there’s literally no Asian men.

(FourzeKITA)
Excellent, well-written piece. The actress doesn't do the movie any service (not that it is worthy of any) by saying she and the author demands more male Asian romantic leads in American films, yet have none to show in this one. As was said in the article, the movie is portraying whiteness as peak masculinity, whereas the minority races are seen as nonexistent or feminine. I can't imagine how much these genuine issues will be ignored and deemed as "overreaction" by the general audience, some of whom are of our own race.

(Dean_Friedman)
Wow, that was very well-written. He hit the nail right on the head by labeling it “racial neo-liberalism”. That’s exactly what it is. Putting aside the author’s own self-hate, there’s an obvious reason why this film is so marketable- it’s “progressive” in the most bare-minimum way, to be palatable to a wider, racially ignorant audience. They’re just trying to make a quick buck off the backs of minorities, while erasing the real experiences of Asians/hapas in a Eurocentric society. It’s written like a white person’s fantasy of what it’s like to be a half Asian woman.

Also, lmao at the mom dying from slipping on the kitchen floor. Wtf?

(eddyjqt5)
the neo liberalism is too real.... they'll tell you that being progressive means seeing past our skin colour and putting our color blind goggles on. Basically: promote post racial individualism under the guise of true equality, when in reality its just gentrification, white flight, cultural appropriation, and assimilation. So asians eventually don't even identify as asians. Honestly, neo-liberalism kind of props up white supremacy in an indirect way...

(Dean_Friedman)
Exactly. Neoliberalism= “we’ll only tolerate the profitable aspects of your culture”.

The only way you can make it to the top is if you work in the interests of white supremacy. Why do you think AA “acceptance” has a female face? Because Asian women have been sexually commodified.

(Handsome_Golden_Boy)
Jenny Han is a fucking racial fetishizing creep. Period. Seriously she comes off extremely off and creepy.

Let's disagree with her ideas, no need to personally attack her.

Remember, she grew up in the 80s in Virginia, and she's the product of that environment.

Doesn’t matter. She’s still doing severe damage to the Asian community and she’s being backed and supported by white supremacy. Sure there’s a reason why she is the way she is, but would you forgive the Joker because he used to be a good man who fell into a vat of toxic chemicals? Besides, her actions are creepy and fetishistic, nothing he said was wrong. Just look at how she creepily fetishizes her hapa nephews, comparing them to white actors.

(aleastory)
I can already see all the news articles about some Asian girl getting killed by her white boyfriend/husband/uncle/brother-in-law/family friend/father. All thanks to people like Jen the Hun *thumbs up*

Gee, what "positive" representation that is /s.