isabelthespy:

enaek sent me a link to katy perry performing unconditionally at the AMAs with an “oh boy” and i was like, “what? what, is this going to be racist or something? what the fuck could katy perry possibly do with her performance of this staunchly banal song to — ” and then the video loaded and for a second i thought i was watching a clip from the met’s last staging of madame butterfly because to sing a song about undying unconditional eternal love katy perry s2g dressed up as a geisha and i was like “oh.”

There is a long history of yellowface in media, specifically in film. Katy Perry’s terrible costume, as bad as it is, doesn’t even begin to touch the enormity of how terrible the fact that her backup dancers have makeup on that makes their eyes look squinty. This is yellowface in 2013. 

I am in my 20s, and the shitbag boys who used to pull their eyes back and say “ching chong” still hurt me. This sort of shit is not funny or artistic to me; it just reminds me that I am still not an American to a lot of people and that someone who looks like me still cannot be a Katy Perry of the world. 

(via isabel--the--spy-deactivated201)

Nov. 24 2013
#music #asian american gal #racism is fucking boring you guys
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