Meta news: The Kiss
So apparently, it’s like major news that there was an Asian American kissing another Asian American on ABC last week. (News meaning I saw 4+ blog posts on this.)
I’ve been trying to figure out why this is so newsworthy. While some have claimed that this was the first Asian American primetime kiss, others have suggested that it wasn’t, and others have pointed out the differences between Asian-Asian kisses. And? Do we keep counting? What happens when we see kiss number two? And kiss number 42? And the 33rd time we see two Asian Americans getting to third base? And then the first time there’s a lesbian Asian American kiss?
I hope that this particular kiss is noteworthy because it is the beginning of a beautiful relationship, or rather any relationship between two Asian Americans. 2005 was supposedly the first year where there was a primetime show with two Asian main characters, which was Lost. and now Heros has a couple of Asian characters too, but still. That’s just two shows. That’s not a lot of relationships.
I want to see Asian Americans portrayed in relationships with each other, bringing up things like the ways their parents’ pressures affect their dating lives. Or not. I don’t want to see them just kissing. I want to see them living together. I want to see them fighting about whether they are bending to their parents’ wishes by dating each other. I want to see them comfort each other. I want to see them fight about Asian American women dating white men. I just want to see them.
But, I don’t want to see them that badly. This is why I don’t watch network tv.
P.S. Feeling down on the future of Asian American relationships portrayed in the media? Hopefully the video below will, um, get you excited about what lies in the future… (You might want to turn down the volume a bit if you’re at work.)
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Yeah I’m with that. Except i don’t want to see AA couples fighting about the white dude question. That shit is played out.
But the kiss - well, I guess it was so newsworthy that we all forgot to watch it. did it happen already?
I think the newsworthiness of it has more to do with the SMH factor than the OMG or WTF factor.
Yes, the kiss happened already.
Funny thing though - I did a google search on “Cashmere Mafia kiss” - guess what came up? The lesbian kiss. Guess that’s more newsworthy than Lucy Liu and Jack Yang kissing. I don’t know if I should be happy or sad or mad about that.
do you remember when dennis franz’s bare ass was on NYPD Blue?
i remember reading the nypd thing in the paper. i didn’t know who franz was, and when i caught the show, i think i was a little disappointed.