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Originally Posted by kengo
yul kwon, Aaron Yoo, tony leung, never recieved blatant public ridicule about his race. they were generally accepted in mainstream media.
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.
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The purpose of my post was not to compare Asian men to plus-sized women! That's frankly ridiculous. So let's not try to find the *right* comparison between Asian men and plus-sized women, because that's not the argument I'm trying to make.
I'm saying that we as a people are very closed minded about what's considered beautiful, and it wouldn't hurt to open our minds up more. Frankly, women with bodies like Ms. Marshalls were considered the height of beauty barely a century ago. This just goes to show that beauty is a localized standard. 50 years from now, what's considered beautiful might be completely different. Heck, it might be women who look like Ms. Marshall, BECAUSE of her efforts in this beauty pageant.
If a little person (midget) had won the same beauty competition, I would have said the exact same thing: "Well, good for her, for pushing the boundaries of what's considered beautiful." This isn't to say that I have a thing for little people, but as a member of a class that's on the outside of Western societal norms of beauty, I can only applaud when ANYONE is able to shake up the status quo.
