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“You Know What I Say About Men Who F--- Asian Women?” | Vanity Fair

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When white women hypersexualize Asian women onscreen, we suffer the consequences.

Save this story Save this story In a fit of nostalgia, I recently watched Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). Though I’d seen the film years before, I noticed this time that the plot turns on an Asian woman: Mark’s Japanese ex-wife, the thorny source of his and Daniel’s decades-long conflict. Yet she is both nameless and faceless: The only shot we glimpse of her is of her naked back arched over Daniel on the floor. Simultaneously erased and hypervisible, she exists solely to be a two-timing whore. I wish Bridget Jones’s Diary were an outlier indicative of a former era. But like a stubborn rash, this

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