Earlier today on Twitter, comedian Margaret Cho expressed disappointment over the upcoming Absolutely Fabulous movie’s decision to cast a white actress Janette Tough as a male Japanese fashion designer named “Huki Muki.”
Monday's How I Met Your Mother episode had some bloggers asking "What is up with the yellowface?" After watching it myself, this show had me asking the same thing, as well as wondering if the orientalism on display had any legitimate place in this particular storyline.
Let's say you're in need of a lawyer, but, for some twisted reason, you're only willing to hire someone who reminds you of Mickey Rooney's I.Y. Yunioshi character from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Well, you're in luck! Here's an ad supposedly released by Alabama law firm McCutcheon and Hamner, which features a white dude…
Known for its hardcore X-rated parodies of the horror genre—Evil Head, Fuckenstein, Re-Penetrator to name a few (links NSFW)—porn company Burning Angel just wrapped filming on its spoof of AMC's The Walking Dead. Writer/director/actress Joanna Angel published behind-the-scenes photos of the cast in makeup on her blog.…
Andrew Ti's Thoughts On Cloud Atlas [grantland.com]
I went to see Pitch Perfect last night and during the previews, while I should've been preparing my vocal chords to harmonize with Anna Camp, I was thrust out of my movie enjoyment by an upsetting trailer that had me looking around the theater like, "You all seeing the same thing I'm seeing because EXSQUEEZE ME WHAT?"
Recently, a Japanese Vogue spread for which Crystal Renn had taped her temples garnered a lot of controversy when a behind-the-scenes video showed the tape (which didn't appear in the final spread thanks to the magic of Photoshop). Given fashion spreads that glorify or reference blackface have become common in…
Today in fashionable racism, we have: An Australian magazine with a familiar-looking cover, and a Karl Lagerfeld-directed movie that features heavily made up European models in Chinese roles. How very The Mask Of Fu Manchu.
