Hear me on Fallout Central’s podcast
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I was on Fallout Central’s podcast last night. We talked about a variety of topics: from The Bratz movie (which I now have to see) to “I Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” from racism to the future of activism, from oppression olympics to um, a pickup artist named Asian Playboy. Check it out.
Fallout Central describes itself as “an online space designed to inform, spur dialogue and mobilize Asian Americans against the racism and prejudices facing us in the United States and beyond. Our goal is progressive social change through education, organized action and other non-violent means and methods.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Wendi Muse wrote:
re: the Bratz film, check out the website (www.thebratzfilm.com) …
note that the Asian-American Bratz character (who is the main subject of the segment in the podcast about Bratz) says in her bio that her favorite food is Sushi and her favorite music artist is Gwen Stefani…how ironic
Posted 06 Aug 2007 at 10:27 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
LOL wow… that is seriously ironic.
Posted 06 Aug 2007 at 10:32 am ¶
The Asian Playboy wrote:
LOL.
Forgive me if I caused your interview to be sidetracked.
I think in order to effectively discuss that particular subject is to separate the Asian American aspect from the feminism movement.
But to put forth some food for thought, I give you an Honors Thesis of one of your fellow feminist whose brother is in the Community.
She examines the history and philosophy of the movement through the lens of feminism, et al.
https://webspace.utexas.edu/ejc329/ElanaCliftThesis.pdf?uniq=-wk7fye
by Elana Clit
Posted 07 Aug 2007 at 4:40 am ¶
The Asian Playboy wrote:
Sorry, that’s CLIFT
Posted 07 Aug 2007 at 4:41 am ¶
Rob wrote:
The irony is not lost on me.
Posted 07 Aug 2007 at 8:15 am ¶
Wendi Muse wrote:
asian playboy, that was the best freudian slip ever
Posted 07 Aug 2007 at 10:26 am ¶
Kai wrote:
Looks like Asian Playboy’s touted smooth charisma doesn’t quite hold up in the written arena. I’m guessing that written communication, love letters and romantic poetry, aren’t part of the coursework. It’s more of a hands-on approach, I suppose.
What some refer to as “the Community” is what I refer to as Remedial School: No Penis Left Behind.
Yes I do see the nominal idealism and perhaps even the utilitarian necessity of such a program: there are plenty of men for whom five thousand years of patriarchy have been an insufficiant headstart, an insufficiently tilted landscape, to figuring out how to rig the rules of the game, especially when a degree of female agency is introduced into the equation. Must be tough.
Okay all snark aside, great job, Carmen, you always manage to say in flow, even in the weirdest riptides.
Cheers.
Posted 07 Aug 2007 at 11:30 am ¶
CJF wrote:
The Asian Playboy is doing great things for Asian men. As Asian males are belittled as feminine beings with no sex drive in the media, it’s great to have a masculine movement. I find it hypocritical that feminists are against any male movements. There’s nothing wrong with males being proud of being male just as there is nothing wrong with females being proud of being females.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 at 8:20 pm ¶