William Chan releases new MV for 'Queen'

[mangomuffins]

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Source: HKmusic2012

In all honesty, the song isn't that great, but I can appreciate this kind of 'femme' concept that's not really seen in C-pop very often. But the YouTube comments saying how this video is  "gay" and "belittles men" are really disgusting and make me disappointed in how backwards and bigoted many (if not most) Asian countries are.

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[sunsaid]

OP, there are annoying people in any given country. Or ranges in opinion.
I can accept that that's true without typecasting tens of millions of people as 'backward and bigoted'

[mangomuffins]

i'm just saying that, as someone who has lived in hong kong, in general many people discriminate against homosexuals and are very ignorant about LGBTQ rights there. especially when you compare it to places like USA or europe, which of course still has its fair share of bigots, but people there are way more tolerant and open-minded about issues like these.

[sunsaid]

Thing is, it's not a question of having some bigots (that we can set aside as outliers) and then some kind of norm in everyone else that we can easily compare between countries.

There's so much involved here
- Differences in the way people in different countries might communicate about these things
- Differences in how people are distributed along some kind of ... tolerance continuum
etc

Hell I don't know the answer. You might be right (or not). All I'm saying is, there's a lot more to think about. Having lived in Hong Kong as well, I'm comfortable with that. Maybe people will find it wishy washy - but between a) the inherent fuzziness and b) the fact that avoiding misrepresentation is more valuable than any assessment I can make - I'm okay with that.

[g_esquared]

i have to agree with this. i've lived in an asian country all my life, and while i agree that prejudice and homophobia are, at times, practiced under the guise of 'traditional asian values', it's really a different thing altogether to dismiss us as backward. that pretty much comes off as a form of bigotry in itself.

i wouldn't agree with those youtube comments, either. but i do think there's more to tolerance than the western brand, or an absence of discrimination. i'm far from an expert but what i feel is that it isn't right or fair to brush off asian attitudes this way, especially in a community meant for people who enjoy and appreciate asian culture and what it represents to them.

[k3vk3vk3v]

why are people saying that this is belittling to men?

[mangomuffins]

the lyrics talk about a guy who is like a subject to a girl, who is the 'queen', and basically how she has complete control over him.

[k3vk3vk3v]

lol some men need to relax

[lollipopgracee]

wtf hahaha.... come one, if that's how they are interpreting the lyrics then all the women in the world should be raging and leaving angry comments on...well, pretty much any rap video. Belittling my ass.... I think its a great MV and song with a very unique concept!

[tamirisns]

dude, i like it very much, specially the dance. And i cant understand y ppl sayin 'it's gay' since he's sayin he's madly in love with a woman lol is it just becos of the dance? c'mom srsly. And if it were really gay i'd still like it, doesn't matter it's nice.