![]() ![]() She continued by saying: ‘It’s a very humbling experience for a girl going through puberty because you enter a room with women from ages nine to maybe 90, all walking around naked and waiting to get a body scrub on one of these tables that are all lined up in a row. In the introduction to today’s episode, Meghan mentioned that when she was younger, she frequently accompanied her mother to a Korean spa. But this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent, it doesn’t just end once the credits roll.’ This has seeped into a lot of our entertainment. In a later segment of the podcast, the duchess elaborated on the idea by telling Cho the following: ‘The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as both tantalising and deadly,’ she told Cho. ‘And it’s not just those two examples, there’s so many more.’ ‘Movies like Austin Powers and Kill Bill presented these characters of Asian women as oftentimes over sexualized or aggressive,’ Meghan says. He responded with the following when she told him her name: ‘Oh behave baby.’ ![]() In the meantime, Austin Powers can be heard responding to Fook Mi’s request for his autograph. ![]() After removing the head of the Japanese crime boss Tanaka with a samurai sword, the character O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill is heard saying, ‘The price you pay for either bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is: I collect your f****** head.’ She claimed that she did not become aware of the stereotypes that women of Asian descent face until a significant amount of time had passed.Īs an illustration of Meghan’s point, some brief clips from the movies Austin Powers and Kill Bill were played. KILL BILL BOSS TANAKA SCENE MOVIELast year, in response to the criticism, Liu wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post in which she argued that it is illogical to refer to O-Ren as a Dragon Lady because the movie also “features three other female professional killers in addition to Ishii.” Liu’s piece was published in response to the criticism.Īt the beginning of today’s podcast, Meghan talked about her childhood in Los Angeles, which she described as being “full of culture that you could see, feel, hear, and taste on a daily basis.” She also mentioned that she had a “real love” of learning about the traditions and customs of other people. The author India Roby gave the character the description of a typical Dragon Lady, saying that she “uses her sexuality as a powerful tool of manipulation, but is often emotionally and sexually cold and threatens masculinity.” In the meantime, Lucy Liu portrayed O-Ren Ishii, the ruthless leader of the Yakuza, in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic film Kill Bill, which was released in 2003. ![]()
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