Sleeping Beauty is a Feminist ICON | Andrea Jin

I'm an immigrant and I moved here from... I moved here from somewhere else, you know? Is that okay? I mean, it doesn't matter, I'm not leaving, so... I moved here with my family, you know? And no one in my family speaks English, except for me, right? We sort of decided that together, as a group. I was gonna be the rep, you know? And I moved here from China and I was actually born under the one-child policy, which sounds kind of serious, right? It sounds kind of super serious, but I had a good time with it. It was like a good experience for me, you know? Like, five stars, kind of. I'm tentative, you know? But five, okay. Yeah, no, it's because every time my mom, growing up, whenever my mom would get mad at me, I would just be like, okay, but what are you gonna do, you know? Are you gonna have another one or something? Just go to your room, think about what you just said. Stupid. But I moved here when I was like, you know, ten years old. I was a ten-year-old, you know? I was ten years old, right? And it's been a great year, I'm eleven now. No, just kidding. I'm a woman, okay. And so when I was ten years old, I came here, and I was growing up around white children, and I felt like I had to tell everyone that my favorite Disney princess was Mulan, right? I just felt like I had to, you know? This was for China, I think. I don't know. And yeah, no, it's because I didn't actually like Mulan that much, I was just lying to everyone. My secret favorite princess was actually Sleeping Beauty. Yeah, because she was asleep for that whole movie. And when she woke up, she had a castle and money, right? That's magical, you know? Thank you, yeah. Laziness. No, it's because Mulan's story was just so close, like the theme of it is just too close to all the Asian stories that I heard in China already, right? Which are, the themes are, you gotta work hard, you're not special, and be awake as much as possible. So Sleeping Beauty was like a feminist icon in China. When I moved here, I lived with my grandparents for a long time, and they do this thing where they always have to have 37 bags of rice at home, you know? And I don't know why that is, right? Grandparents are kind of like rescue dogs, you know? No, no, no, hold on. Grandparents are kind of like rescue dogs, because you don't know what happened to them before they got to you. Why are you growling at the TV? But you know, you go along with it, because you love them, and they're like slobbery little faces, right? I love my grandparents. But yeah, no, they do that, so we always have to have like 37 bags of rice. And it's not the little bags that you guys like to get, right? Where you guys are like, oh my god, let's change things up for dinner tonight. Let's make something, oh, let's make some sushi with carrots in it. What? Yeah, that's you guys. No, it's like the big, it's like, it's, you know, the ones that we get, it's huge, it's like this big. You know, the packaging is different, it's like the bags are made of cloth, right? Like someone sewed it together while crying, right? That's how they're made. And we go to Costco for these bags. Do you guys know that saying, don't go to the grocery store on an empty stomach? Yeah, yeah, because you buy too much, right? We have a similar saying. It goes like this. Don't go to the bulk food store if you've ever had a communist dictator. And it is a real problem, like it's at the end of the shopping trip, like the grocery trip, where the trunk of the car is open, right? And there's a car full of food, and we can't fit it all into the car, and my grandpa and I are looking at each other, and we're like, what do we do, right? And in the heat of the moment, one time we said this to each other, and we were like, okay. Should we leave grandma here? Should we do that? So we could take all the rice home? And my grandma is like standing right here, she's like, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's because if we leave rice at Costco, like someone's gonna take it, right? But if we leave my grandmother there, no one's gonna take her, because she's a burden. But that's a joke. It's a joke, I'm joking. I'm just kidding. She's 80 years old, we've obviously never left her there. We've just put stuff on top of her, right? It's fine, she likes it, the rotisserie chicken keeps her warm. It's good. We get a lot of, we get a lot of moths from these bags of rice, you know? Do you guys know pantry moths? You can get it from quinoa too, if that's... I'm translating for you. I'm bilingual. Yeah. No, if you're familiar with pantry moths, if you know about them, they don't care about dying. Yeah, that's their thing. Like, they don't care about dying. They're not like mosquitoes, you know? Like, mosquitoes are like, no. No. Don't, no. That was a good impression of a mosquito, yeah. Thank you. Thank you, yeah. I do impressions. And, but moths, here's a hot, moth impression coming. Okay. We did a mosquito, got him. Okay, now we're doing moths. Okay, a moth, they don't care, right? They're just like, do it. Here, I won't move, try again. My mom is a bag of rice, like, what is my life? I don't really care. All right, thank you so much. You're a great audience. Thank you.