There is a story behind the laughter

I think today I could get a clearer picture of why Margaret Cho says what she does. Hearing her talk about how her life spun out of control during and after All American Girl, I think she realizes the complete absurdity of societal conventions like the "proper" way to be Asian, how thin women should be, and how everyone should be neatly folded into what the media wants us to be, no matter the cost. I think those ideas are very much aligned with societal ideas of race. There is always someone else telling us how to be us. There is something extremely wrong with this picture. Margaret Cho is the poster child for allowing an idiotic outside force like a television producer to drive her to alcoholism and eating disorders for the possibility of being accepted. So, if she can get people to laugh at the absurdity of her impression of her mother, maybe they can also shake off other things society has largely told us is wrong such as being at an average weight, being gay, and most of all, loving ourselves. Self-love seems to be the biggest sin in a country that makes the most money off of self-loathing. All ass jokes aside, Margaret Cho should be an example of someone who has been through hell and back, and found a person she loves inside of herself on the other side.