It's the result of systemic inequality and severe underrepresentation of POC communities in the media, which has inculcated many of us with dismissive attitudes and blinders towards Asian American women.
So in that sense, it's not your fault if you mixed up these women. Simply put: When your face is unlike 95% of the population, people are more likely to confuse you with someone else, because being marginalized in your own country, left out of your country's textbooks, and reduced to a "model minority" myth means that you're barely noticed in the first place. It's also eerily grounded in the science of how our brains perceive differences when we're simply not exposed to faces unlike our own. And Jeannie Mae has said that the one celebrity she hates to be commonly mistaken for is Brenda Song.Īs a result, while "they all look alike to me" is still a form of coded anti-Asian racism, that confusion is based in systemic erasure and underrepresentation of Asian faces in America. Why? Because Mai has a history of fetishizing black men and was formerly married to a white, racist Trump supporter. Let's hop into our time machine to ask the unthinkable: Have we as a society made.progress?įor a strange moment in 2019, Brenda Song became a trending topic with over 20k tweets shortly after rapper Young Jeezy confirmed long-standing rumors that he was dating Jeannie Mai on Instagram (as of March 2021 the couple is now married). In 2019, Twitter did not compute the difference between these two Asian women, despite their different ethnic backgrounds. In case you had no childhood and don't know, Brenda Song is a 33-year-old actress known for playing early prototypes of the manic pixie dream girl on kid's shows like Nickelodeon's 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd and Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.īrenda Song is NOT, however, a 42-year-old racist banshee who screeches at her co-hosts on the talk show The Real: That's Jeannie Mai.
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