Word: soong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprised that Allen C. Soong had such strong feelings about the portrayal of men in "The Joy Luck Club" that he felt compelled to write an editorial about it. While he refrains from making the outrageously venomous comments that author Frank Chin directed at Maxine Hong Kingston for supposedly maligning Chinese men, Soong similarly mistakes a focus on Asian female voices for the erasure of Asian men's diversity...
...Although Soong cites one bean-counting male character in the film as an example of a negative stereotype, he himself resorts to a similar kind of bean-counting. True, there are no main male characters in the movie. Nor are there any lesbian or gay characters. Perhaps if there had been, the movie could have been improved. Many all-male movies could certainly have been made more complex and realistic by including female characters. But "The Joy Luck Club" should not have the responsibility of representing all Asians, just as "Dragon" should not have been expected to focus on Asian...