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Guy on Dreamwidth said he had “yellow fever” because women in Japanese media smile, and women in America do this “smolder” he thinks looks stupid. I’ve been thinking for days about why I find this offensive beyond the wording, and I think it’s the conflation of countries’ beauty standards with those countries’ women. Whether people in media smile doesn’t determine whether people who aren’t on camera smile.