Xzenu
Since: Apr, 2010
Mar 26th 2012 at 3:04:59 PM
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Yeah. New version:
- Asian Hooker Stereotype: A major plotline starts with Leo visiting a place where sex-workers and clients hook up, just to have a look. He obviously expected the local prostitute to be a living stereotype: Finding out that she's a regular normal person makes him shocked and confused. He awkwardly tried to take up the role of Mighty Whitey Knight in Shining Armor instead, but it doesn't work. After that, he spends the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he's a heroic lover and that paying a sex-worker "for not having sex" and then have sex with her after all does not make him a John. This also fails miserably, and he end up leaving her without even saying good-bye... Thus after all treating her as a lowly whore to be used and discarded..
- As for the racist "all Asian women are sex-workers" stereotype version of this trope, the movie averts it by having Gloria as a central character, Gloria's mother as an important side character, and loads of minor female Asian characters who have nothing to do with the sex industry.
I don't see where this averts Asian Hooker Stereotype. Asian Hooker Stereotype runs on race, gender and sexuality stereotypes. This example, as written, suggests that Mammoth averts the stereotype that sex workers are screwed-up and need help, but that is a general prostitute stereotype and not specifically part of Asian Hooker Stereotype. The example explains nothing that would change the racial/gender aspects of the trope; Cookie is still Asian, she's still a prostitute, Leo is still white and giving her money in return for control over her sex life.
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