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Plastic surgery and China Dolls

May 3 By Marjorie

There’s an article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/weekinreview/02alex.html ) on the NY Times website that’s fascinating, and just a little disturbing.  It discusses a trend that I’ve been aware for quite some time, but one that I was never able to vocalize.  This article, which takes a look at the homogenizing of American beauty, does just that.  Makes you wonder why we just can’t like ourselves the way we are. 

Also, as a person who spends a lot of time in China (and who got her degree in East Asian Studies), I found this editorial to be eye-opening and spot-on ( http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/opinion/02FRIE.html?8hpib ).  China is a crazy, wild, beautiful place, and is the one country that I feel Americans have the most misconceptions about.  Yes, it’s a communist country, and yes, you don’t want to openly cross the government, but that doesn’t mean it’s a dark, oppressive, homogenous land of huddled masses.  Oh, no.  Quite the opposite. 

And one more thing:  If I ever hear anyone—ever again—say that all Chinese women are docile, quiet, and subservient, I’m going to put on a freak show that’ll make a prison riot look tame.  The only people who spew that nonsense are men who have a skewed idea of what makes a good woman, and who fantasize getting one for themselves.  China Doll, my ass.

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I write comic books and novels about grumpy warrior women, eccentric demons, plucky fox girls, and men who can shape-shift into tigers. If a merman or gargoyle shows up, all the better!  To learn more about me, please go here.

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