Re: Crimes and comics

Angel M.Y. Lin (mylin who-is-at oise.on.ca)
Sun, 3 Dec 1995 16:01:29 -0500 (EST)

Bravo Rosa!
Your empirical analysis is perhaps the first kind ever done on comics and
literacy? (By the way, could you tell us about the software you used to
do the various linguistic counts and analyses?)

Sexism is so much a part of Hong Kong popular culture that I have to be
cautious about anything I say about comics, movies and popular T.V. shows
(including Miss Hong Kong beauty pagents)... I always feel a tension
within me: yes, I like our popular culture; they are vibrant, dynamic,
colorful, creative, artful, playful... on the other hand, I always feel
so put down as a woman in this culture... women's bodily parts as
sensational objects, as things to joke about in these movies, T.V.
shows... women portrayed as sex objects, as ignorant, as dependent, as...
anyway, before I get too emotional here... I'd better stop...

Sincerely,
Angel

P.S. That's why I like Bourdieu's analysis of symbolic domination...
women dominated in the society in subtle ways... (not like in ancient
China, but dominated in other manners all the same...)