femininity…(Han, 2006)
Griffith’s direction on soft lenses and feminine production design for Blossom’s Huan parallels Han’s assertion and exemplifies the ongoing Asian male dilemma. Han also writes,
Song Liling, in David Henry Hwang’s critically acclaimed play M. Butterfly, is able to explain his ability to fool a French diplomat into believing that he was a woman for nearly two decades not on his mastery of deception but on the diplomat’s inability to see him as anything other than a woman. Given the way that mainstream media has catapulted the image of effeminate Asian men into the national consciousness, this explanation does not seem far-fetched. Asian men have also been portrayed as being more “traditional” and “conservative” when it comes to sex, while being portrayed as meek asexual houseboys or as sexual …While the stereotypes of Asian men being