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Dissuading Chinese Women from Marrying For Money

Thanks, MLC, for sending this one: Girls to learn sour side of relying on ‘sugar daddies’. The article begins:

Girls in South China’s Guangdong province will get a crash course on how to resist the sweet talk of “sugar daddies” when schools start teaching them about self-respect.

The pilot project is aimed at telling girls at middle and elementary schools how to avoid falling into the clutches of older, richer men and stand on their own two feet.

“The education will focus on self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement,” said Lei Yulan, vice-governor of Guangdong and director of the Working Committee on Children and Women of Guangdong province.

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The Asian Male/Asian Female Gender Wars 2010 (Podcast)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Feminism/Maleism

Important Edit: See comment below.  The “James” commenter in the original post is NOT the same James as Alpha Asian.  Sorry for that!

My Gender Wars Emergency Podcast is done.  It’s 14.5 mbs and 31:40 long.  It’s me and me alone.  Download it here or listen to it here:

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Thanks again to Mondega for letting me use his music.  Learn more about him here.

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Girly Girls, Princesses, and Asian American Women

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(pic from here)

I read Emily Co’s piece on AbsolutelyFobulous about the Princess and the Frog, and the implications of ethnic princesses.  In her piece, she writes:

I know we have Mulan and everything, but somehow she doesn’t seem to fit that Disney princess mold. I’m pretty girly, so I’d love to see an Asian princess who traipses around in a poofy dress, preferably wearing a tiara. I just simply didn’t identify with Mulan and I wonder if little Asian girls feel the same way. I can’t really picture them clamoring to wear Mulan’s armor for Halloween when they can don Belle’s yellow froufrou ballgown.

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