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Meghan Markle Tackles Hollywood’s ‘Toxic Stereotyping’ of Asian Women in Podcast Return

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Meghan Markle returned to her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” on Tuesday and in an episode called “The Demystification of the Dragon Lady” tackled the “toxic stereotyping” of Asian women in movies like “Austin Powers,” “Kill Bill” and “Full Metal Jacket.” Markle recounted her childhood in Los Angeles, growing up adjacent to and very appreciative of the Asian influence in her upbringing. (She even recounts going to a Korean spa as a child, an initially embarrassing memory that she now cherishes.) In fact, Markle wasn’t familiar with Asian stereotypes, “ones we see in so many movies and throughout pop culture.”“Movies like ‘Austin Powers’ and ‘Kill Bill’ — they presented these caricatures of women of Asian descent as oftentimes oversexualized or aggressive,” Markle said on the podcast, which can you listen to below. “It’s not those two examples, there’s so many more.

And I’m not the only one who has taken notice.”Margaret Cho was on the podcast, bemoaning the characters that serve as an “evil, exotic force,” more commonly known, as Markle points out, as “the dragon lady.” Cho equated the stereotype as being adjacent to the “femme fatale,” with Asian women being “beautiful and deadly – because we can’t just be beautiful.” “It’s also evil queen adjacent,” Cho said.

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