Pretty Is Powerful (feat. David Yi, Very Good Light)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
David Yi is the foremost expert on male beauty standards. He joins us to discuss the politics behind the shifting perspectives of male beauty throughout history and encourages us to embrace "beauty beyond the binary." We also discuss how Western ideals of masculinity affect Asian-Americans. Go read his new book Pretty Boys, available at all bookstores! Also, check out his skincare line good light! Follow David on socials at @seoulcialite! Please like, subscribe and support the pod on Patreon :)
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asian. Welcome to Feeling Asian a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Brian Park. |
| 0:21.9 | And before we get to our guests, |
| 0:24.0 | we're gonna do our Patreon shout out. |
| 0:26.8 | So for our listeners out there, you know the drill. |
| 0:29.0 | If you like the podcast, please consider supporting us |
| 0:31.7 | on Patreon at patreon dot com slash feeling |
| 0:33.9 | Asian young me and I offer a lot of different exclusive benefits but at the very |
| 0:38.6 | least any donation amount gets to you a shout out on the podcast where we guess who you are based on your name |
| 0:45.0 | alone and without further ado young me are you ready for our first shout out yes |
| 0:50.0 | I'm not hung over today surprise, so my psychic abilities might be off. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, right. |
| 0:56.0 | But I'm going to try to tap in. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm going to try to do the method. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay, tap in, young me. |
| 1:01.0 | Because our first shout out goes out to Melea Saito. |
| 1:05.0 | O, S A I T O. |
| 1:10.0 | Melea Saito. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm getting like, I'm getting Hawaii vibes. I feel like this person lives. Yeah, I was going to guess, um, Saipan. Oh, yeah. You know what? You know what, maybe this person is a Pacific Islander. |
| 1:25.0 | P I represent. |
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