British Royal News says that Meghan Markle has been praised for her “eloquent” discussion of the negative depiction of women of Asian descent in Hollywood films.
Meghan explored the “Dragon Lady” stereotype with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho in episode four of her Archetypes series. She also called out films such as Austin Powers and Kill Bill for presenting caricatures of women of Asian descent as over-sexualised or aggressive. Here’s what you need to know.
Meghan Markle Attacks The Toxic Stereotyping Of Asian Women In Hollywood
In the Archetypes episode, Meghan said: “The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as both tantalizing and deadly, this has seeped into a lot of our entertainment. But this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent, it doesn’t just end once the credits roll.”
Asian American theater organization East West Players said such depiction “poses very real and harmful consequences” and “often exoticised or othered” the Asian community. “I hadn’t known all the sigma and archetypes that so many Asian women specifically have faced until many many years later,” Meghan continued.
In a statement Snehal Desai, producing artistic director at East West Players, said: “The stereotyping of Asians, particularly women of Asian descent, is not new. These portrayals have had an outsized impact on our community because, for a long time, there weren’t opportunities for our community to be genuinely portrayed. Through these stereotypes, the Asian community was and is often exoticised or othered.”
“Organizations like East West Players have fought these negative portrayals by elevating Asian representation onstage with the hope that audiences will learn to see our community’s talent and ability before defining us by just our heritage or the color of our skin. We aspire to combat the ‘othering’ that Margaret Cho and Lisa Ling so eloquently discussed with the Duchess, as it poses very real and harmful consequences, especially to our community.”
Meghan’s Spotify series resumed on Tuesday, after a four-week break following the death of the Queen.
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