The (Sasha) Grey area of racial indignation

It all started with the 2005 Digital Playground movie “The Way of the Dragon,” which was advertised as “a surreal journey through a sensual dreamscape of Asian customs, fantasies, and sexual delights” but that had no Asians in it.

Since then I have been like a dog with a bone (albeit hungry for more bones an hour later) with regard to the integrity of the claims stated or implied by porn titles and boxcovers. Are they really Asian? Is that a MILF? Is this woman actually a teen? And is she actually a cum-hungry slut?

That is why I was righteously indignant when I saw Sasha Grey on the cover of Bluebird’s “Asian Massage Therapy.”

“Those tax-fraud British are trying to make us think Sasha Grey, from the unincorporated wildlands of Sacramento-adjacent, is actually Asian?” I fumed. “Surely her ancestors didn’t even help build the railroads up there.”

But then, Readers, I realized my mistake.

It wasn’t Sasha Grey on that boxcover, but the verifiably-Asian Evelyn Lin. They just look and pose alike, is all.

It is my fault that I am always trying to make Asians look like their Caucasian counterparts so that I feel more comfortable by perpetuating the hegemony of white male patriarchy (which I also invented).

How many times have I introduced Lucy Liu as Jennifer Aniston at my dinner parties? How many times have I ordered the tasty egg rolls at Jack in the Box but told everyone I was eating the mini sirloin burger combo instead? How many times have I tried to convince myself that my Thai mail order bride was actually a Ukrainian hooker?

(If you’re keeping count: five times, nine times, and 380 times, respectively.)

I am sorry, my friends, that I have been part of the problem. In fact, I’ll venture that I have been part of the problem long time.

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Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Barely Legal 75—stacks of nudes spotted in Sunland
See also: Bluebird Films

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