Venessa Lau wrote a very interesting article on Asian faces and sunglasses for W magazine. I am not at all of the Asian persuasion, but I couldn't help but be offended by this article, her obsession over sunglasses to fit her facial features seemed entirely very creepy and vapid. She was chasing a "cool appeal" that was not designed for her, searching long and hard, for this elusive dream that would always escape her.When she mentioned Margaret Cho, I shuddered, the quote so derogatory and offensive, I couldn't believe someone Asian would want the general public to believe that they believe themselves to have a "misshapen misadventure of a head."
Although, her perils do need to be mentioned, but with the undercurrent of self-hatred written with every line, I just wish that it was written after therapy not before.
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so you're suggesting that asians shouldn't wear sunglasses because they weren't made for us? so we need to just suffer through driving/jogging/walking in the bright mid day sun without sunglasses. Or that we aren't allowed to be fashionable while doing it? Our faces are shaped differently and things like glasses that don't stay on your face, sit on your cheeks causing all sorts of sweat/acne problems, or irritate your eyes because your eyelashes (even without mascara) brush against the lens are a reality for some, dare I say most, of us. As a person who is of the asian persuasion, I'm just a bit offended by your post.
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