Bad White Girls
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In Asian are women in pop culture forced to enact roles reflecting conformity, purity and female docility?
Here in Asia, it’s the pure, virginal and demure “good girl” who is lauded in the media and worshiped by fans. Think Lin Chiling, Nanako Matsushima, Fann Wong, and Michelle Chia — all “hot” because they are so very “girl-next-door” (although we have never had neighbors like them).
Is being inhumanly nice reserved for the Asian female? Is it OK for white - e.g., American - women to be naughty, reckless and sexy?
Singaporeans don’t mind Western bad girls — in fact, we rather like them on TV. We relish reading about them in magazines. We even dress like them (when they have their clothes on). So why is it that it’s the Asian bad girls we have a problem with?
Blondes don’t have more fun, bad girls do