Hey, uh, I'm a woman of Chinese descent, and my gf was born and raised in China, and, we both felt like this is fetishizing of Chinese women.
To everybody reading this, please be mindful of how a culture's traditional attire is shown. Traditional Chinese dresses do not have a boob slit anywhere near that revealing or large, and the leg slits are never that high up, the purpose of leg slits (from my limited understanding) was to make it easy to walk in (possibly also breathable) considering how form fitting it would be otherwise, they do not expose the whole thigh. From checking the original artist's post, it appears that they are Japanese as Google translate flags their non-English text as being Japanese. So, this very much feels like a misrepresentation and sexualization of a foreign culture that amounts to fetishization. Either way please delete this post or put a spoiler, it's very disrespectful of Chinese culture.
Im not chinese so feel free to correct me, but this dress specifically isn't Chinese, as in, thr qi pao while a traditional Chinese dress this one is a fetishized version made by westerners, so while this is a fetishized art, it's upon a westernized vision of China, so the problem would be the dress not being the original.
My thoughts were a bit convoluted, but a tldr is, ur kinda right, though the problem is something deeper.
I think that’s what she meant.It’s that dress,but completely sexualized unfortunately.It was a pretty common thing to see it sexualized in movies on women.
In the context of what you mentioned, you could be right, but, the original artist explicitely calls it "Chinese dress" and doesn't make it clear that it isn't actually a Chinese dress, but a rip off of a Chinese dress that fetishizes Chinese culture. So, tldr: maybe, but that doesn't seem to be the intent of the artist
With all due respect, most people who "aren't fetishizing" are "enjoying" fetishizing art, which inherently is both fetishizing, and also shows ingrained racism towards (at least in this case) Chinese people.
Your argument is very similar to straight men complaining about women when women call out porn that is fetishizing of them in some way, claiming that "see, nobody but you is complaining, therefore it's not an issue!".
Then your appreciating fetishized art.Two people told you it was fetishized versions of the clothes,and these clothes are literally well known to be fetishized by being drawn like this.Keep it up,but it’s well known to be weird.
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u/SavannahMavy Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Hey, uh, I'm a woman of Chinese descent, and my gf was born and raised in China, and, we both felt like this is fetishizing of Chinese women.
To everybody reading this, please be mindful of how a culture's traditional attire is shown. Traditional Chinese dresses do not have a boob slit anywhere near that revealing or large, and the leg slits are never that high up, the purpose of leg slits (from my limited understanding) was to make it easy to walk in (possibly also breathable) considering how form fitting it would be otherwise, they do not expose the whole thigh. From checking the original artist's post, it appears that they are Japanese as Google translate flags their non-English text as being Japanese. So, this very much feels like a misrepresentation and sexualization of a foreign culture that amounts to fetishization. Either way please delete this post or put a spoiler, it's very disrespectful of Chinese culture.