Between ’30 Rock’ and ‘New Girl,’ ‘Senior Year’ and ‘Mean Girls,’ the fetishization of Asian women in Hollywood is being upheld, writes Elaine Chou, by white women.
, Trang Pak and Sun Jin Dinh are underage high school students groomed into an abusive relationship with authority figure Coach Carr. But instead of being painted as his victims, they are written as all-knowing sluts. Fey’s transgressions against Asian womenwith loaded lines like, “[S]he makes Jack very happy. She’s like a white geisha!”—said by Fey’s Liz about her boss Jack’s new girlfriend, Phoebe, in season one .
Inherent in the “hypersexual woman” trope is the belief that Asian women aren’t simply women: They are an alien category unto themselves. This is echoed in season one of, when Marnie’s boss tries to warn her off from avant-garde artist Booth Jonathan because he’s sleeping with an Asian woman, Koi Scharf. “I do not approve of you fucking Koi Scharf! You know what I say about men who fuck Asian women?” she scolds Booth, before being interrupted; we never find out what she says, but we can guess.
A subcategory of this trope is when a white nerd finally gets laid—but only by a scheming Asian slut. Inwe see it in the form of Kenneth and a kidney-stealing woman in Beijing; in a 2010 episode ofit’s brought to life by Leonard and his North Korean spy girlfriend, Joyce Kim., suburban mom Celia sees her husband joyfully betraying her with a tennis coach, Helen Chin, on a nanny-cam recording. But elsewhere, the “other woman” trope rears its head without any outright cheating.
has Wilson’s Natalie facing off with yoga instructor and model Isabella over Josh, which comes to a head during a surprisingly tense karaoke dance battle. In’s Tiffany steals Blaine from Wilson’s Stephanie while she’s in a coma, one Tiffany cruelly induced. To twist the knife in further, she marries Blaine and moves into Stephanie’s dream house.
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