Day Break

[Catatonic]

Saw a promo for a new show "Day Break" starring Taye Diggs.

The premise of the show is a rip off of "Groundhog Day" where Diggs' character keeps reliving the same day.

Diggs' character's gf or wife is played by a hapa (Corean, Irish, Danish) actress Moon Bloodgood.

Now, I don't have a problem with the portrayal of AFs in IR relationships - but this is getting ridiculous - the AF/BM coupling is pretty rare in real life and yet this is the 3rd (4th if you count south asian) prominent AF/BM coupling on a TV show.

We have yet to see a single Asian-Am couple (the most numerous coupling) on a show and yet the rarest of AF couplings gain in numbers (well, at least it wasn't another WM/AF coupling).

[Ike]

Saw a promo for a new show "Day Break" starring Taye Diggs.

The premise of the show is a rip off of "Groundhog Day" where Diggs' character keeps reliving the same day.

Diggs' character's gf or wife is played by a hapa (Corean, Irish, Danish) actress Moon Bloodgood.

Now, I don't have a problem with the portrayal of AFs in IR relationships - but this is getting ridiculous - the AF/BM coupling is pretty rare in real life and yet this is the 3rd (4th if you count south asian) prominent AF/BM coupling on a TV show.

We have yet to see a single Asian-Am couple (the most numerous coupling) on a show and yet the rarest of AF couplings gain in numbers (well, at least it wasn't another WM/AF coupling).

Moon Bloodgood? Sounds like an unhealthy obsession... with the letter O.

[kalbi]

Jesus Christ, Cat. Just get used to it. Are you actually surprised? They're gonna keep going with 'what works', and what makes them look open-minded. For a while at least, us AMs are still expendable. I'm not saying that your complaint or comment is unwarranted - I'm just as peeved as you are. But why present this as though it's news to any of us, or even the general population at large? IT'S BECOME A NATIONAL SPORT TO FELLATE BLACK MEN, BOTH LITERALLY AND SYMBOLICALLY THROUGH IR-DEPICTIONS INVOLVING BLACK MEN. :lol: We get it. So what else is new?


FYI, Taye Diggs is married to a white Jew, I think.


PS: I think Wesley Snipes is that black asiaphile will *definately* tune in to watch this. :lol: That guy cracks me up.

[Lum]

I thought "getting used to it" was exactly the thing to which the 44's were so stridently opposed.

[Catatonic]

Jesus Christ, Cat. Just get used to it. Are you actually surprised? They're gonna keep going with 'what works', and what makes them look open-minded. For a while at least, us AMs are still expendable. I'm not saying that your complaint or comment is unwarranted - I'm just as peeved as you are. But why present this as though it's news to any of us, or even the general population at large? IT'S BECOME A NATIONAL SPORT TO FELLATE BLACK MEN, BOTH LITERALLY AND SYMBOLICALLY THROUGH IR-DEPICTIONS INVOLVING BLACK MEN. We get it. So what else is new?

K - I am used to it and I'm not so much pissed for myself (tho it would be nice, as for most human beings, to see like-images portrayed in the media) since I've been fortunate enough where negative portrayals or the lack of romantic portrayals haven't really impacted my social life.

However, I am concerned about the next gen of young AA girls who will grow up to think all AAMs are asexual nerds or young AA boys who grow up embarrassed to be an Asian male.

After all, the black community didn't just "get used to it" when there was primarily little or negative portrayals of blacks on TV.

[Ike]

Moon Bloodgood, as a half-white person, will probably just be marketed as white. I don't think her character or the show will focus on Asian-ness at all, and most audience members won't know her ethnicity. To white people, half-white people are generally considered "white enough" to include: Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain, Kristin Kreuk. I didn't even know they were part Asian until recently, and it's not like they do anything for the AA community - they just try to be white.

This pisses me off though. Angry Asian Man linked to this bio for Moon:
MOON BLOODGOOD
Rita Shelten on the ABC Television Network's "Day Break"

Moon Bloodgood is a stunning beauty who recently lit up the screen in Disney's "Eight Below," by famed director Frank Marshall, opposite Paul Walker, Jason Biggs and Bruce Greenwood.
In September 2006 she can be seen starring in the feature "Pathfinder," with Karl Urban for director Marcus Nispel.

Bloodgood appeared with Ashton Kutcher in "A Lot Like Love," and made her movie debut in "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!"

Writing songs with Paul Anka and on her way to becoming a singer/songwriter until two years ago, Bloodgood was asked to audition for "Just Shoot Me." Since getting that first part, she has worked on "CSI" and "Monk" and on the pilots "Hollywood Division," directed by James Foley, and "Rocky Point," directed by John Stockwell.

Bloodgood, whose mother is South Korean and father is American, began her career as a professional dancer. She performed with Prince, Brandi and the rock band Offspring. A trip to New York resulted in her modeling for cosmetic giants Revlon, Clairol and Avon, and she went on to endorse Adidas and Nike Woman in their campaigns.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN Orange County, CA
BIRTHDATE September 20

Why do people think "American" means "white"? That statement should tell me nothing about her father's ethnicity. For all I know, he could be Filipino-American or African American. But it's obvious that whoever wrote the bio thinks American=white. Also, is her mother really South Korean, or just ethnically South Korean? I'm pretty sure the old woman lives in America and is an American citizen. I would much prefer to see Moon's parents described as both American, one of South Korean descent and one of (most likely mixed) European descent.

PS: I think Wesley Snipes is that black asiaphile will *definately* tune in to watch this. Laughing That guy cracks me up.

I missed something. Since when is Wesley Snipes an Asiaphile?

[kalbi]

Do some research. He has a history of dating Asian women.

Btw, Moon Bloodwhatever is engaged to Eric Balfour, that guy who looks like one of those French courtiers from 14th cen. Plantagenet France.

[Tyger Durden]

Taye Diggs also starred in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" as a BM helping BF and her well-chronicled never-ending dating problems.

Doesn't that give him a some sort of pass with this new IR role?

Or did he expand his artistic horizons a little too far in this latest role this time around? Was it too chancy for such an underexposed/underrated attractive Black actor NOT named "Denzel Washington"?

[Ike]

Do some research. He has a history of dating Asian women.

I read that he was married to one, but that doesn't mean he's definitely an Asiaphile. However, he also said this:
"I read that Asian women were bedroom generals. Some people think that means they're great in bed, but that's not the issue. They're talking about a place where the man is at his most vulnerable, where they have the most control. They don't have to beat him over the head to mow the lawn. They can whisper it in his ear and give him a kiss on the cheek and it's no problem. That's a general." (August 1998: Jet Magazine v.94 #13 pg.58)

[Catatonic]

Moon Bloodgood, as a half-white person, will probably just be marketed as white. I don't think her character or the show will focus on Asian-ness at all, and most audience members won't know her ethnicity. To white people, half-white people are generally considered "white enough" to include: Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain, Kristin Kreuk. I didn't even know they were part Asian until recently, and it's not like they do anything for the AA community - they just try to be white.

Unlike the hapa actors you cite - Moon does look more "Asian" (kind of in the vein of Russel Wong or Daniel Henney).

That whole "American" thing annoys me as well.


Taye Diggs also starred in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" as a BM helping BF and her well-chronicled never-ending dating problems.

Doesn't that give him a some sort of pass with this new IR role?

Or did he expand his artistic horizons a little too far in this latest role this time around? Was it too chancy for such an underexposed/underrated attractive Black actor NOT named "Denzel Washington"?

BMs in IR relationships are common-place now.

Diggs starred in the TV show "Kevin Hill" where he dated BFs, WFs, HFs and AFs.



I read that he was married to one, but that doesn't mean he's definitely an Asiaphile.

From what I have heard - he is.

Btw, I've bumped into him and his wife a no. of times on the street (Wesley is kinda short - not Tom Cruise short, but shorter than what I expected).

[Tyger Durden]

the problem with your complaint is first you acknowlege her "mixed" ethnicity here --

Diggs' character's gf or wife is played by a hapa (Corean, Irish, Danish) actress Moon Bloodgood.

then you say she's "AF" in the very next paragraph --

Now, I don't have a problem with the portrayal of AFs in IR relationships - but this is getting ridiculous - the AF/BM coupling is pretty rare in real life and yet this is the 3rd (4th if you count south asian) prominent AF/BM coupling on a TV show.

she is the biological product of an IR relationship in the first place. If she chooses to portray a character involved in IR onscreen or in real life, then that's her perogative.

We have yet to see a single Asian-Am couple (the most numerous coupling) on a show and yet the rarest of AF couplings gain in numbers (well, at least it wasn't another WM/AF coupling).

i agree with this, we have to see more AM representation, but mixed actresses/actors should be given leeway of sorts. They should NOT be categorized as "full blooded" and then implicitly labeled a "race traitor" (not that you are doing this, but for arguments sake).

Some of the girls in the "Joy Luck Club", yeah, accuse them and the author too.

The AF actress crying when making love in Miami Vice, yeah, that was a funny scene, let's accuse her.

Lucy Lui, most definitely. That's a no-brainer.

The Corean, Irish, Danish actress Moon Bloodgood? No. Heck, to the American audience viewing the show, the "white" part in her may be the ethnicity/race perceived as "selling out" for being involved in IR with a BM for all we know.

[Catatonic]

the problem with your complaint is first you acknowlege her "mixed" ethnicity here --

Diggs' character's gf or wife is played by a hapa (Corean, Irish, Danish) actress Moon Bloodgood.

then you say she's "AF" in the very next paragraph

Well - most people who are of mixed heritage (esp. with African-Am) aren't seen as mixed and are viewed more in light of their minority heritage (unless they can pass for being "white").

Moon definitely looks part Asian.

she is the biological product of an IR relationship in the first place. If she chooses to portray a character involved in IR onscreen or in real life, then that's her perogative.

Uhhh - I'm not really criticizing Moon - but rather the industry for once again overlooking AMs as the lead, romantic character and for partnering every AF (or part AF) actress/character with a non-AM.

Hey - they could've partnered her with another hapa (Russell Wong?) - now that would be cool/different.


i agree with this, we have to see more AM representation, but mixed actresses/actors should be given leeway of sorts. They should NOT be categorized as "full blooded" and then implicitly labeled a "race traitor" (not that you are doing this, but for arguments sake).


TD - you should know by now what my views are on IRRs, since I have posted frequently on this topic.

My beef is with the industry and not her - and the fact that she is half-Asian and not "full blooded" really doesn't make a difference as to what I am espousing.

[kwak76]

Well, the cancer spread even to Korea.

On my last trip to Korea I would watch the Korean cable shows that they have here. To be fair they do show allot of Korean couples and once in awhile a Korean man with a white woman but they started to show a dating show with Korean women with white man.

I kid you not they have a Korean version of "Next". If you every watch MTV there is a dating show called "Next". You get six contestant who goes on a date with one person and they either win by going the next round or if they lose they try to last as long as possible because depending upon how long they last they win the money.

This shows to me a very strong American influence on the Korean media and this media more or less will influence the Korean youth.
They actually had a white guy as the actually contestant. I think he did other shows in Korea because he does look familiar. I am not sure if he is from America or from French but he is white.

I didn't watch the rest of the show because I got sick of it. He spoke crappy Korean but you had cute Korean girls fighting to date him.

Korea changed to the point where if your a white guy and you love Korean girls it is accepted now.