So when I was in high school, that was the “joke” saying because it was the best comic act ever.  I had no idea who it was by, so I was stoked to reminisce on that aspect of my high school years.

    Margaret Cho’s stand up comic act really relates to many theorist we’ve read thus far in theory 330.  First, I would like to relate her to Smith, the poet that I saw at the English symposium.  Smith focused on stereotypes of the blacks.  As I stated in a previous blog, she focused on drive bys and shootings.  She said how its a stereotype that people relate violence in only black community’s; well Cho does a similar thing.  Cho focuses on the gay community, the KKK, relationships, and the Korean community’s.  In act 7, she went into depth speaking of the Asian consulting.  She went on to say how the Asian consultant said to her to use chopsticks, than add them to her hair, no shoes in the house, use this abacus, you have a “native” language, you can not marry a white man, your jobs tend to be lower class, and your eyes are smaller than white peoples.  So both Smith and Cho better explain stereotypes that our society will holds present.

     Cho also relates to Micheal Foucualt.  Foucualt writes about discourse, the way society makes meaning of actions.  Society does not want to talk about sex, we like to ignore it.  Not only do we like to ignore sex, but we also tend to drift away from homosexuality and anything aside from heterosexual.  Cho speaks of homosexuality many times.  Whether or not she actually did, she said that she had sex with a woman on a ship.  She also ties into account that her Mother leaves messages saying “only gays screen phone calls.”  So the connection here is how Cho is one out of thousands, even maybe millions, who take a stand and who actually speak out about sex…and especially homosexual issues.  What does this say for us?

     Last but not least, its very apparent that Cho relates to Butler.  Butler discusses gender roles and roles that are basically “assigned” to us.  Chos act 6-7 demonstrate how Korean women are suppose to look / act.  There two connections paint a picture of what society believe to be true.  Of course its funny to watch such a video clip, but we all must keep in mind that these are real problems that arise.  A stupid TV station is giving Cho a problem telling her that she needs to loose weight to play herself on a show…does that make any sense to anyone? 

     Society needs to take a step back at moments, and try to realize what it does to their people.  As society, we give such hard times to its members instead of focusing on what matters.  In act 9 she spoke of killing herself from all the pressures, is that seriously what we want?  Lets let individuals be individuals…and Cho speak for us all!