Asian Bitches Down Under

By Helen StenbeckTV & Film Society & Culture Arts Books

Asian Bitches Down Under episodes

June 18, 2021 Australian Club | Art of Apology 2021
This week, Australian Club, the long-standing male-only club has voted to continue to ban female memberships. Is it an outdated club in the current society? Or simply a club the offers 'safe space' for wealthy privileged white males to make inappropriate comments to oppress and exploit on others?
Art of apology. What constitute and apology, how should one express sorry that really means it? We look at how the celebrities issue public apologies in the contemporary world, are they effective if there is no further actions after saying 'I am sorry'? We also discuss the differences between culture and gender when it comes to apologies.
No women members allowed: The Australian Club votes to remain open to only men
Elite male-only ‘gentlemen’s club’ in Sydney votes to continue banning female members
In Asia, 'sorry' can be lost in translation
58 min
June 10, 2021 Australia Talk Survey | Choosing to be child-less
What is the differences of perspectives in our society today between women and men? We explore the survey Australia Talk in issues about personal safety, feminism and discrimination, does the survey really reflect Australia's society as a whole?
With the social progression, more women are choosing not to have children, why? Is there a reason required?
What divides men and women? The Australia Talks survey reveals quite a list https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/australia-talks-reveals-what-divides-men-and-women/100195244
Australia Talks National Survey reveals what Australians think about marriage and children https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100146390
More Women Are Saying No To Motherhood. Will Society Ever Listen? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/child-free-by-choice-women_l_60b7e5c5e4b001ebd46d5601
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June 03, 2021 Remembering Tiananmen Square Massacre
On this extra episode, Helen shares the memory June 1989, the history that Chinese Communist Party had been censoring.
‘Mourn June 4 in your own way’: Tiananmen Square events vanish amid crackdowns and Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/tiananmen-june-4-events-china-hong-kong-taiwan-macao-crackdown-covid
六四天安門32年後，中國年輕人何以變成了「戰狼」與「小粉紅」？(TAIWANESE ARTICLE: 32 years after 4th June Tiaanmen, how young chinese citizens became 'wolf warring little pinks) https://www.storm.mg/article/3722525?mode=whole
1989 Tiananmen Square protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
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June 03, 2021 Naomi Osaka | Women and Casual Sex | God for the LGBTQI+
Happy Pride Month Bitches~
This week we look into the media's attack on a woman's choice of prioritising her mental health over her career, society's ever constrain on women's choice of sexual activities, and God of Rabbit, a deity that is specifically dedicated to give faith and guidance on relationships in LGBTQI+ community.
Lapsed, by Monica Dux https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733340819/lapsed/
Under the Tuscan Sun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328589/
Cruella https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3228774/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Rabbit God https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.wikia.org/wiki/Rabbit_God
Naomi Osaka Quits the French Open After News Conference Dispute https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/sports/tennis/naomi-osaka-quits-french-open-depression.html
Women still get judged harshly for having casual sex: Persistence of unfounded stereotypes at play https://www.firstpost.com/living/women-still-get-judged-harshly-for-having-casual-sex-persistence-of-unfounded-stereotypes-at-play-9668791.html
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46 min
May 27, 2021 White-centric ads
This week, we critic some Australian ads, especially the tourism ads, how these ads are still very white/wealthy centric. Diversity has been used as a tokenism for a lot of industries, advertising isn't an exception, utilising POC as a prop but never centres the perspectives of POC.
Epic Holidays | Holiday Here This Year | Tourism Australia (90 sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxhm3wDiVrE
Stop dreaming about New Zealand and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqJbmAMngTE
Victoria Tourism ad - "It's Easy To Lose Yourself In Melbourne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCrz_2jivw&t=21s
Tourism Victoria: Play Melbourne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgz5ylq0Po
Tourism Victoria - Romantic Melbourne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBnSBH12f5U
Unmute Yourself 60sec – Stop it at the Start television commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4-puN2K9o
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52 min
May 19, 2021 Olympics | Asians in Australian Sports| Fatbulous Me
With Japan's COVID state of emergency, shouldn't IOC call the Olympic off? Is it competition or money drive? We look into why there hasn't been much Asian Australian's participation in local sports and question is it the environment or simply the parents' preference of academic achievement over sports achievements? This week we'd like to share aTaiwanese documentary about plus-size women, their heart wrenching experience of being the marginalised people in Taiwan.
Liz Cambage: Australian criticises Olympic team photo shoot https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57020386
Sports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/magazine/sports-children-kids.html
AFL's roots are partly Chinese, but Chinese Australians are now fighting underrepresentation https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-31/chinese-australians-australian-rules-afl-multicultural-faces/12825538
Are There Fat Asians? Yes. I’m One of Them.https://thebolditalic.com/are-there-fat-asians-yes-i-m-one-of-them-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-c405247ec535
Fatbulous Me (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2EKF0wfXiY&t=1s
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1 hr 3 min
May 12, 2021 Jessie: My Favourite Five Films
Helen begins this episode about the podcasts she listened to the past week, conversations around sperm donor and infertility industry(stay tune we will have a massive episode about this topic), the representation of disability and fat community, how each is trying to reclaim the rights of language usage. Helen highly recommend The Saturday Paper's podcast 7am on the subject of right-wing terrorism and how people with power gets to decide what and how to label terrorism.
Sarah Dingle — finding my donor dad https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/sarah-dingle-sperm-donor-global-fertility-industry/13316010
Live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, baby! https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stop-everything/carly-findlay-sam-van-zweden/13331892
The Price of Salt (Carol) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52258.The_Price_of_Salt
The Ripping Tree https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460751992/the-ripping-tree/
Three Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUIV-TA1Z4
Yi Yi (2000) [HD] - Edward Yang movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U089cG2BqR8
Apologies that "Three Times" does not have English subtitle, if any of our listeners can find any VPN that offers this movie with subtitles, let us know!
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55 min
May 07, 2021 Gates' Divorce|Parenthood
On this episode, we did a little gossip about Bill and Melinda's divorce news, along with the discussion of why women choose not to have children, how having children impacts women's life. And, another year, another Mothers' Day rant from Helen
CIA estimates Taiwan's fertility rate to be world's lowest https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/21/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/taiwan-birthrate-children/
Taiwan with Lowest Fertility Rate in the World https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/268777997/taiwan-with-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-world

38 min
May 06, 2021 Sydney Writers Festival | Ask Us Anything
Thank you to all the listeners who sent us questions, we had a blast having such a fun conversation answering your question!
Gritty Nurse Podcast https://www.grittynurse.com
For the listeners who are concern about racial micro-aggression https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-to-respond-to-racial-microaggressions

1 hr 12 min
April 29, 2021 Awards | Stop Asian Hate Vigil in Sydney | Asians in ANZAC
This week we catch up with news about Jessie's win at the ABIA, Asians winning at the Oscars, and our experience at last Saturday Stop Asian Hate Vigil. Our main topic is the lesser spoken of Asians in ANZAC, the rejections many asians faced during WWI enlisting.
The Barbizon https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-barbizon-paulina-bren/book/9781529393033.html
The forgotten Chinese Anzacs https://apac.news/the-forgotten-chinese-anzacs/
Uncovering the forgotten stories of our Chinese-Australian Anzac soldiers https://www.sbs.com.au/news/uncovering-the-forgotten-stories-of-our-chinese-australian-anzac-soldiers
Chinese Anzacs https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/chinese-anzacs
Anzac Day 2018: The Chinese-Australian woman who worked as a decoder in WWII https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-24/the-chinese-australian-woman-who-became-a-codebreaker-in-wwii/9683878
Get your tickets for Women Revue now!
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Roughly one in 10 Aussies come from somewhere in Asia, yet when you look at our representation on TV, film, radio and literature, you’d think we were completely non-existent. What do you do when the…