Celluloid Closet Questions

1.
I recommend Jet Li to be my representative. In Hollywood, Jet Li succeeds in playing a Kung Fu fighter. The success of Asian kung fu stars in America works against Asian American actors and filmmakers by perpetuating a single, limited image of Asians in the minds of audiences and Hollywood decisionmakers. I know many foreigners want to visit Taiwan and some of their reasons are learning Kung Fu. Foreigners consider that Taiwan has great fighters who can teach them Kung Fu. In the recent years, there are increasingly films are about Kung Fu, such as Kiss of the Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, The Forbidden Kingdom, Mulan and so on. It's a positive stereotype.

I've heard of someone told me that one time when he was in a lobby, he saw a man(Chinese) who wore a night-robe hanging around the lobby. What a shame! How dare he was so shameless? It makes me feel embarrassed that I'm a Chinese, too. I have a friend who comes from New York she said that when she arrived in Taiwan, she saw some people chew a mysterious thing which makes people threw up blood! How scary scene it was and disgusting. I don't know how to expain that it's just like Chinese gum. One day, when I turned up TV, there was a talk show about Chinese traditional food. Could you guess what I saw on TV? Yes, I saw one guy was eating and spitting! Gosh! Didn't he care about he was interviewed at that time? It's too much to say that Chinese have many bad habits. It almost becomes a representitive impression about Chinese people. It's a negative one.



2.
I've seen the movie"Kill Bill", and in this movie the enemy is Japanese. When we talk about Japan, the Ninja will appear. It's all our impression about Japan. So, it's a kind of stereotype. There are still other examples such as "The Ring" about mysterious spirits, "Godzilla" about a horrible monster and so on. These are Japanese which are shot by the Hollywood. They are relative to Japan traditional impression to people.

3.
If I ask 100 people, they will give me the same answer - men kiss men, so they are couples, aren't they? It's obvious men are usually not sensitive creatures and they won't show their emotion with a very intimate action, just like women. People believe that if males are good friends, they don't show their friendship by this sick action. At most males usually hit friend's back or bottom. Friendship doesn't need such intimate action. However, we can see females kiss each other or lead their hands each other. Is it curious that why males can't do the same action? I think between two females have a feeling like adoration or a kind of friendship. They want to show their special friendship. They just think why they can lead their hands with boyfriends, but why not friends? Not only love but also friendship, females can do those things.
Therefore, no matter you're straight or lesbian, you can kiss each other. On the contrary, males do those things and they are probably considered a gay right away. That is to say lesbians are the covert gender but gays are dominant relationship.

Assignment - Gay rights

1.

Of course, parents in Taiwan don't want to face this kind of frustrated truth. According to Chinese traditional custom, people just want their children, boys will become a father and girls become a mother. That is the normal situation in the world. In Taiwan, there is only Man can be the inheritor from their fathers or ancestor. It involves sexual discrimination. Let's talk about parents' mind. I know most of parents want their children to grow up normally. Parents usually ask their sons "Do you have any girlfriends?" and this would be the very serious problem. Why do boys have to love girls? Those children choose to not talk to their parents about the gender problem because they are afraid of being blamed by their parents. So, the best way is to hide the secret. It's really difficult to hear from someone tell parents that " I'm a gay or a lesbian." This situation still exsists now and it becomes a famous issue in Taiwan. The government notice this problem gets worse and worse. Why should parents react when their children tell them the trth? I have heard from many parents that if their children become gays or lebians, they won't their children come into the house. On the one hand, parents love their children, so they can't accept "abnormal" children. On the other hand, I can't say parents overprotect their children is wrong. All I can say is if this society doesn't give much pressure to "these people", perhaps parents will understand loving people is no matter which gender you are.

2.

In 2003, the executive branch of the Republic of China government (Executive Yuan) proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couples under the Human Rights Basic Law; however, it faced opposition among cabinet members and legislators, and has been stalled since and thus not voted on. Currently, Taiwan does not have any form of same-sex unions.
A poll of 6,439 Taiwanese adults released in April 2006 by the National Union of Taiwan Women's Association/Constitutional Reform Alliance concluded that 75% believe homosexual relations are acceptable, while 25% thought they were unacceptable.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Taiwan )

Today, there are no laws against homosexuality. However, there are still some people think it's unacceptable. Well, what should I say? It's all about the freedom and it must be fair to everyone.

Why can heterosexualityhave their marriage? Why same sex marriage can't? It's apparent that it's not fair, isn't it? If all people want a fair human right, same sex marriage in democratic Taiwan should be done. I think it's ironic to the religion because Christian says we are brothers and sisters, that is to say we are the same to God. Nevertheless, Christian hates homosexuality. There must be something unreasonalbe doctrines between true love and morality. Although some people can't accept this, it's still a trend in the world. Same sex marriage will legalize in Taiwan.

3.

Taipei's yearly gay pride parade has share of closeted marchers

Legalizing gay marriage in chinese societies:a question of legal Pluralism,Social norms or Habitus

LGBT

Gays and Lesbians are all human. Perhaps you can't accept their activities but you can't deny it that it's all about different love. Love is always there and love isn't guilty. You can regard it as an art in the world. Don't blame them and they just want a perfect love peacefully.

Homework - Harvey Milk

In my opinion, Harvey Milk is a brave man that he was the first one who wanted to give gay people support. People always regard Gay as a guilt but Harvey think everyone should have their basic human rights, why not gay? I believe there were a lot of people didn't face this situation because it's not natural. He was a gay, but he hadn't taken this as a shame. He even came out of the closet and claimed his suggestion to gay people. It's obvious that from this video he devoted himself to giving his knowledge to gay people. That's a way to solve this embarrassing issue and he knew there were a lot of gay people who were afraid of facing it. In this documentary, his friends all love him so much. That is to say Harvey was really a kind person, but how could Dan White kill him so firmly? Did Harvey owe his money to Dan White? No way! No wonder after Harvey died, there were huge crowds of people walked on the street to mourn for him. To me, his most impressive sentence is "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door". Is this a prediction that he would be assassinated one day? I have no idea, but I'm sure he really did his best to complete his dream.

Welcome to 2009~~~Happy New Year

We went to join the party "Countdown Night" and we took KUO-KUANG to Taipei. Unexpectedly, there were many people who also wanted to go to Taipei. Originally, we could take the bus in school but when we arrived the bus stop, people waited for the bus long ago. We had no idea and we didin't want to waste time on waiting for the bus. Therefore, we went to the Hsinchu city to take the bus but there were still a lot of people there. We took the bus by the skin of our teeth. On the super high way, there was a big traffic jam, so it took us 2 more hours to get Taipei. Wheeew.... that was close.
In fact, this firework display of 101 was not good enough and I think last year's show was better than this year. Although I don't like being jam-packed, I still want to be with friends to celebrate the New Year. This is my first time to watch the show and it's also my wonderful memory. The firework is really gorgeous!!!

Ne-yo - Closer

Turn the lights off in this place
And she shines just like a star
And I swear I know her face
I just don’t know who you are
Turn the music up in here
I still hear her loud and clear
Like she’s right there in my ear
Telling me that
She wants to own me
To control me
Come closerCome closer

And I just can’t pull myself away
Under her spell I can't break
I just cant stop
I just cant stop
I just cant stop
I just cant stop
And I just can’t bring myself away
But I don’t want to escape
I just can’t stop
I just can’t stop
I just can’t stop
I just can’t stop
I just can’t stop

I can feel her on my skin
I can taste her on my tongue
Shes the sweetest taste of sin
The more I get the more I want
She wants to own me
Come closer
She says "come closer"

Assignment - Poems

I love Maya Angelou's Touched by An Angel. I think in this poem there are two people who fall in love each other, but they can't tell anyone their love in public. From my point of view, it includes two significant points - love and taboo. First of all, why"love?" It's obvious that in the first line of the second stanza "Love arrives." shows the point. When someone falls in love, they really don't care about the morality in the society. Because love is everything, they need their lovers not anyone else. If we have love, we will be strong to fight anything. In the same stanza, the sixth line, "love strikes away the chains of fear," love will make us be free from all obstacles.

Moreover, where is the "Taboo"? In the first stanza, "exiles from delight" means they can't show their true feeling to their lovers, unless "until love leaves its high holy temple" they just talked about their love under the darkness. That's why the "Taboo" comes from and this is the only way to set them free. Solving this problem is only love. All they have to do is to be brave to face their ecstasies.

Why do I be interested in this poem"Touched by An Angel" ? I have two reasons.
First, I also meet the same feeling right now and I really have no guts to solve this problem. I can't understand why people are so strict to me that I can't control my emotions. I totally catch the author's mind if my explanation about this poem is right. Sometimes I just run away when I meet such this kind of problem, I'm a coward I guess.
Then, my situation is in the blind alley and I deserve it. I have no complaint about this thing because it's totally about my imagination which makes me feel upset. Taboo might be the best description, so I don't dare to cross this line. I know I can't but I want to be free. How should I do? Be brave? Yeah, it must be kidding and if it's true, my parents will kill me. Therefore, the only thing I can do is to hide my emotions.
I'm so envious that the author can liberate from this invisible jail. Perhaps this poem just wants to bring us courage to rich our spirits.

What can make me happy?

Recently, we finished our performance and we started a lot of activities to celebrate our great success. It's sure that we are all happy because we can be with many friends. We went to the bar to drink some cocktails and this is my first time to go that kind of place. When I went back home, I felt a little lonely. It's really weird. OK, it's time to do my business so that I can be saved from these anxious thoughts by many busy works.