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Originally Posted by AutomaticBzooty
Good for her, I say! Frankly, I have to applaud anyone who challenges the public to re-evaluate their standards of beauty. Whether or not you find her beautiful, you still have to respect what she's doing.
And frankly, isn't that what we all hope for on this board with guys like Yul Kwon, Aaron Yoo, Tony Leung and so forth? Asian men who will go out there and challenge the public to accept AMs as a model of male beauty as well? Beauty is temporal and provincial--what's beautiful in one time and place can be vastly different from another. It's in a gradual state of flux, and gets re-defined by the efforts of women like Ms. Marshall.
So if you're dissing a plus-sized woman for pushing the envelope of beauty, then you have no right to complain about all those people out there who say Asian men aren't beautiful.
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yul kwon, Aaron Yoo, tony leung, never recieved blatant public ridicule about their race. they were generally accepted by everyone.
i think a more valid comparison, would be when william hung went onto american idol.
like william hung shunned by the asian american community,
im sure that this girl competing in british beauty pageant is recieving similar ridicule on british media tabloids and whatnot.
but the comparison becomes less valid with the amount of support given to william hung as compared to this plus sized beauty pageant. because plus sized women tend to flock together and defend eachother, as opposed to dorky asian guys who tend to disassociate themselves amongst eachother and are in denial.
but atleast that comparison is pointing more to the right direction in terms of comparsion.
