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*AsianHookerStereotype: Averted in a way that makes it a major plot point. When Leo meets the Thai sex-worker Cookie, he must have expected a hooker stereotype: finding out that she\'s just a regular person makes him startled and confused, incapable of knowing how to handle such a situation. He tries to do a MightyWhitey KnightInShiningArmor routine... Fails miserably, and spend the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he\'s a heroic lover and that [paying a sex-worker \
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*AsianHookerStereotype: Averted in a way that makes it a major plot point. When Leo meets the Thai sex-worker Cookie, he must have expected a hooker stereotype: finding out that she\\\'s just a regular person makes him startled and confused, incapable of knowing how to handle such a situation. He tries to do a MightyWhitey KnightInShiningArmor routine... Fails miserably, and spend the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he\\\'s a heroic lover and that [paying a sex-worker \\\"for not having sex\\\" and then have sex with her after all] does not make him a John. This also fails miserably.
**As for the \\\"all Asia women are sex-workers\\\" version of this trope, the movie averts it by having Gloria as a central character, Gloria\\\'s mother as an important side character, and loads of minor female Asian characters who have nothing to do with the sex industry.
I don\\\'t see where this averts AsianHookerStereotype. AsianHookerStereotype runs on race, gender and sexuality stereotypes. This example, as written, suggests that Mammoth averts the stereotype that sex workers are screwed-up and need help, but that is a general prostitute stereotype and not specifically part of AsianHookerStereotype. The example explains nothing that would change the racial/gender aspects of the trope; Cookie is still Asian, she\\\'s still a prostitute, Leo is still white and giving her money in return for control over her sex life.
**As for the \\\"all Asia women are sex-workers\\\" version of this trope, the movie averts it by having Gloria as a central character, Gloria\\\'s mother as an important side character, and loads of minor female Asian characters who have nothing to do with the sex industry.
I don\\\'t see where this averts AsianHookerStereotype. AsianHookerStereotype runs on race, gender and sexuality stereotypes. This example, as written, suggests that Mammoth averts the stereotype that sex workers are screwed-up and need help, but that is a general prostitute stereotype and not specifically part of AsianHookerStereotype. The example explains nothing that would change the racial/gender aspects of the trope; Cookie is still Asian, she\\\'s still a prostitute, Leo is still white and giving her money in return for control over her sex life.
