This model got her career ruined by a meme – Full story here
quick comment–somebody else mentioned how this internet meme was not only harmful to this woman but also had a lot to do with this stigmatic association of plastic surgery and east asian women. i think that’s partially true, but i think another part of it is this stereotype of east asians as weird, alien, backwards people. (i personally see this stuff more frequently spread about china than anything else but anyways.)
like even when people here like to parade themselves as ~progressive~ and not racist or whatever i still see y’all reblogging shit of east asians doing strange things, usually weird challenges that we do on reality or game shows, and without any kind of context or research y’all are quick as fuck to go “lol wtf japan”. and to go even further when we have misinformation like this spread, do you research? do you stop to think, “hmm maybe i should confirm this”? nah, you just jump straight into talking about how backwards and oppressive our countries are, i’ll see comments like “well if even CHINA can understand this is wrong so should you” as if we’re all inherently evil or something.
anyway that was not a quick comment at all but i’m annoyed as fuck about this
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