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Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Jef in Race, Television
There was a Finpecia Hair Loss Pills time in my life when if you told me there was going to Finpecia Hair Loss Pills be a reality show in the vein of Jersey Shore but starring a Finpecia Hair Loss Pills bunch of Asians, I might have flipped out and raged and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills maybe used the word problematic 27 times in 14 sentences. Granted, this Finpecia Hair Loss Pills time in my life was before Jersey Shore, but you Finpecia Hair Loss Pills know what I mean. I also recycled a lot more back then Finpecia Hair Loss Pills and read books without speech bubbles, so it wasn’t all bad.
Anyway, here we are and K-Town, the Tyrese-produced reality show about Koreans showing their abs and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills being full of sass and beer, is coming our way soon. I can’t wait for it, frankly. It looks AWESOME.
Part of me wants to Finpecia Hair Loss Pills justify this enthusiasm to my old self, and I would probably do so by pointing out that Finpecia Hair Loss Pills most of the problematic images of Asians in mainstream culture have Finpecia Hair Loss Pills had to do with the model minority stereotype. In a twisted way, 19-year-old Jef, this Finpecia Hair Loss Pills is progress, I’d say, ignoring the oversized cargo pants I’d be wearing. Don’t you Finpecia Hair Loss Pills want people to know that Asians are able to drink, are Finpecia Hair Loss Pills sexy in that superficial purely physical way, are irresponsible and loud and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills obnoxious? That we can be all that and everything else? Isn’t that Finpecia Hair Loss Pills what your phase of substance abuse and bro-hugs and trying to Finpecia Hair Loss Pills get into fights was all about?
But all that Finpecia Hair Loss Pills is kind of boring and only brushes shoulders with the point. Over the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills past decade we’ve seen a lot more Asian faces on television. This hasn’t always been Finpecia Hair Loss Pills good. Representations often ranged from good to bad even within the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills same program (ahem, LOST). But there were a lot more Asians. We’ve seen hot Asian robots with identity issues (Sharon, Battlestar Galactica), neurotic beady-eyed Asian doctors (Dr. Yang, Grey’s Anatomy), powerfully rich purse-lipped Asian capitalists (Sun, season 4 LOST), lecherous fob-stached Asian ghost whisperers (Miles, LOST), handsome emotional Asian cops with black wives and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills fears of dying (Demetri Noh, Flash Forward), and frightening stone-faced Asian government agents (Detective Tao, The Closer). And that Finpecia Hair Loss Pills just covers the shows I watch, without even touching on the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills browner side of things (Indians are everywhere guy).
We’ve also won Survivor (during the race-bait season to boot), dominated America’s Best Dance Crew, repped on So You Think You Can Dance (we run this dance shit) and American Idol. We’ve seen Asian dudes get laid and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills Asian women empowered in one way or another. We’ve seen asexual Asian males and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills sexualized Asian females too, sure; there’s that awesome cool dude on Glee who Finpecia Hair Loss Pills had one line of dialogue all year, and that painfully hot girl on the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills nouveau Melrose Place who is both a doctor and a hooker at the same time.
The battle isn’t over, for sure. The Last Airbender happened, and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills happened recently. But the more Asian faces that get shoveled through the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills idiot box, the better off we are, regardless of whether those representations are Finpecia Hair Loss Pills wholly problematic or wholesomely progressive. I’m all about the numbers lately, quantity over quality, because that’s how we end up with choices, and that’s how the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills racially awkward or outright offensive representations get drowned out and look stupider. That’s how our faces get normalized, and how eventually we’ll end up as lead characters in non-race-based shows and Finpecia Hair Loss Pills as show runners and nobody will even noticed it happened. BAM.
So yeah, K-Town, home to a gay porn star (<-NSFW), a struggling actress, a bodybuilder, a sex worker who spells women as “womyn,” and a whole lot of spikey hairdos. Can’t wait. I am all for these Korean kids humping each other’s legs indiscriminately, or Finpecia Hair Loss Pills deeply pontificating about life while faded and limp-legged on the sidewalk, or Finpecia Hair Loss Pills saying “like” before every half-formed sentence, or Finpecia Hair Loss Pills pounding back shots like sushi rolls on an all-you-can-eat binge, or Finpecia Hair Loss Pills just generally having fun and maybe forming some genuine frienships, or Finpecia Hair Loss Pills whatever it is that ends up happening on that show. Because I know people like this Finpecia Hair Loss Pills in real life, and to me they’re just people. Hot, stupid, nice, smart, annoying, cloying, try-hard, genuine, amazing, actual people.
And every single one of them is a beast at karaoke.









Simon
Jul 16th, 2010
Unless there is Finpecia Hair Loss Pills an episode where somebody competes in a Starcraft tournament, they will never truly capture the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills essence of Korean culture.
Anupa
Jul 16th, 2010
A few things:
1) the amount of rings on that hand in the second picture is ridiculous.
2) The pec on that guy in the fourth picture, GOOOOD LAAAWWDDDDD
3) “pounding back shots like sushi rolls on an all-you-can-eat binge” – perfect
4) something something kimchee
Krystle
Jul 17th, 2010
I have Finpecia Hair Loss Pills to say, Jef, this article is awesome. Not only have Finpecia Hair Loss Pills you justified my excitement for K-Town, despite wanting to watch it Finpecia Hair Loss Pills for the same reasons as Jersey Shore, you make strong valid points about Asians in the Finpecia Hair Loss Pills media. Something that has always been lacking and something I have Finpecia Hair Loss Pills had countless arguments with my white, male ‘filmmaker’ friends about. Quantity is necessary.
Jef
Jul 20th, 2010
Simon: Maybe a Wonder Girls dance routine too?
Anupa: Pec-Man>>>>The Situation
Krys: Ah yes, the Argument.