Entry 14 - How Asian american women being portray in media exploiting to sexual identity

Nowadays, asian women's are often made a appearance in western movies. While this post i would like to about how asian american women being portray in western movies. 

What we have here is a scene of Lucy liu in Charlie's Angels. In this clips, Lucy liu wore a tight leather suits that represent a sexuality image due to tight leather suits are categorize as  sexual bondage. While she wore this garment, we can seen from the clips she is been looked by every single guy at the company. Hence, leather garment are often acted as an erotic stimulus for people with a leather fetish. But in the other side, it shows the characteristic of Lucy Liu in Charlie angels as a sexy, strong, independent and a sexuality woman. At the start after she enter the scene, all the guys looking at her, after that it switches to her face and the gaze immediately switch to her butt. Despite that this had create a pleasure of gaze on the male audience. 

While is a good opportunities to appear in a western movies, but yet this might create a stereotype of rasicm in the western country on how they think Asian women's are. Hence, Asian woman are often portray as a exploitation of sexuality. 








Referencing
Sitemaker.umich.edu. 1998. Asian Americans in the Media : Asian American Women. [online] Available at: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/psy457_tizzle/asian_american_women [Accessed: 7 Aug 2013].

Cross Culture BDSM. 2010. Finding Leather. [online] Available at: http://crossculturebdsm.com/2010/09/28/finding-leather/ [Accessed: 7 Aug 2013].