UK Prince Harry 's wife Meghan Marco was on the podcast program "Archetypes" of the Spotify streaming platform. The latest episode was launched earlier. It was previously suspended during the mourning period for 4 weeks due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II . In the latest episode, she focused on Hollywood , criticized Mike Miles' "Ace Spy" series and genius director Quentin Tarantino's " Chasing Bill ", making Asian women over-sexualized and "aggressive", believing that these movies will reinforce the stereotype of Asian women.
Megan invites Asian female journalist Lisa Ling and comedy actress Margaret Cho to explore the stereotype about the female yaksha "Dragon Lady". He believes that "Ace Spy" and "Chasing Bill" have been launched for about 20 years and are popular among movie fans. It presents women of Asian descent in an exaggerated and contemptuous way, and points out that McMiles's character has listed on the wish list: playing 3P with Japanese twins is to "sexually tokenize" Asian women.
As for "Chasing Bill" in 2003, the violent Japanese gang leader played by Liu Yuling was described by the screenwriter as a typical female yaksha "Dragon Lady", who would use her gender as a tool for manipulation and threaten male masculinity; in fact, Liu Yuling herself does not agree with her role as a female yaksha Dragon Lady, "because there are three other female professional killers in the movie."
Megan said that her experience growing up in Los Angeles allowed her to see, feel, hear and taste the complete culture in person every day. She also said that she really loves to understand the culture of other countries. She said that she did not realize until many years later that Asian women were labeled, and not just these two movies, but more such examples.
She said that the female yaksha Dragon Lady has always been used to describe the mysterious East Asian femme fatale with exotic temptation, which is portrayed as seductive and deadly in many film and television works, but this toxic stereotype of Asian women will not stop after the end of the film.
She even mentioned her experience of visiting to Korea with her mother as a girl, which is quite meaningful to show kindness to the Asian American ethnic group: it was an experience that made a girl who was experiencing adolescence feel very humble, because you entered a room where there were women aged 9 to 90, all walking around naked, waiting in line to have a bath. I just wanted a bathrobe, and when I overcame the awkwardness of puberty, my mom went upstairs with me and sat in the same room to enjoy a delicious hot pasta.
