C-actress Bai Lu Apologizes for Interview 4 Years Ago for The Legends when She Referred to Her Own Female Lead Character as a Female Dog
Alrighty, this is what I call a case of speaking too fast and being not well learned enough to make the wrong analogy lol. C-actress Bai Lu issued a formally apology over the weekend when her interview 4 years ago from 2019 was unearthed when she was asked about the romance in her then airing C-drama The Legends (Zhao Yao) with Xu Kai. She said the romance is that of a bossy female executive and a little puppy dog (Xiao Nai Gou – literally little mlik dog – slang for cute sweet young dude) and then turns into commanding male executive and female dog. I know she was trying to say the romance in The Legends turns the dynamic around midway through between the two leads but not knowing that female lead (i.e. a bitch) is derogatory towards women is a fail on her part. Not to mention there is a lot of criticism of the Chinese slang of little puppy dog (Xiao Nai Gou) already for being demeaning to men. I don’t think she’ll get cancelled nor is this cancel worthy in any way, but perhaps a good foot fault moment for her to be more deliberate when she speaks.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t see anything particularly offensive about what she said. It’s not like she’s using a derogatory word to describe someone. She’s using it to describer FICITONAL characters, one of which she actually plays. I don’t even know why being compared to dogs is demeaning, when lets be honest, dogs are way kinder creatures than humans.
This is absolutely ridiculous, a pretty nice example for making a mountain out of a molehill! Moles, if you want to feel offended about it, go ahead, I don’t care.
So what if a young actress used the wrong analogy? Everyone should be allowed to say something stupid sometimes without being attacked or cancelled for it. This permanent over-sensitivity towards the tiniest slipup feels very stifling.
Given that this was 4 years ago and only now people are realising that that it may have been offensive (to dogs?) it seems very likely that this is just an attempt to smear an actress who is enjoying increased popularity based on the success of her current drama.
The comment sure is problematic in the choice of words, but I just find it ridiculous that people have to apologize for things they said or did like 5 years ago, just because they’re in the limelight now for good reasons ( like maybe their good acting, hit drama or back to back anticipated projects) or even bad reasons for that matter. This kind of digging up seems in no way well intentioned to me.
I wonder if it’s a thing in Chinese entertainment to dig up past acts from years ago just to find fault with the person today, this always come after an explosively successful drama. They did the same thing with Zhang Zhehan, unearthing a photograph that was taken years ago at a shrine, and now they are digging into Bai Yu’s interview from 4 years ago. It begs the question, if such words or actions were so detrimental, why didn’t the media call them out when it happened? Why wait years afterwards, particularly after they’ve had a hit drama? I like both Bai Yu and Zhang Zhehan, and agree that they do need to be called into question if they flout their societal rules. But this just seems like a witch hunt. Here’s hoping that her career doesn’t go the same way Zhang Zhehan and a lot of C-ent celebrities did after they’ve been called out by whatever powers that be. The machine is fully at work!!!
Are you really comparing calling a fictional character a female dog with Yasukuni shrine? Really??
Zhang zhehan case is just of different calibre than just a word-slip like these celebs. It pertains to their historical, political and nationality issues. Visiting yasukuni shrine is a big issue in China because the shrine is used to honor Japanese soldier that’s involved in Nanjing massacre. They were pertained as hero by the Japanese government. Read up on Nanjing massacre, it’s big issue in China. They do a nationwide mourning every year for it untill now.
Oh Com’on… @Xoxo – do you truly have to bring ZZH into this discussion? You are just ridiculous!!
Oh, pleaseee…..this is just absurd. The girl has always been frank and very straightforward in her interviews. I don’t like the way she’s described the whole thing but I don’t find anything offensive about it either. Those slangs were widely used back then all over the internet. And the fact that this suddenly has become a problem now?! It’s like hey remember that curse you blurted out years ago? How about saying sorry now🙄
“Female dog” is not really a common term so I don’t get what you guys are saying. It’s definitely derogatory. However, I don’t necessarily agree with the practice of digging up comments from the past and judging them retrospectively. Especially if they are using milder words like “sissy” which wasn’t a big deal back then. There is still a lot of work to be done on gender education, and you can hardly expect celebrities who may not be the sharpest tools to be politically correct all the time.
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