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Vietnamese Paris Hilton
My Comment: Wow !!!
http://www.zimbio.com/Hoang+Thuy+Linh+Sex+Tape+Scandal/articles/6/Hoang+Thuy+Linh+Paris+Hilton+Style+Sex+Tape
The sex
tape starring Paris Hilton and then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, did wonders for
Hilton's career and helped make her into a superstar of sorts.
Fornication-for-the-nation worked for her in surprising ways. Her image has been
all over the media ever since. Irritatingly so.
Pretty much the opposite has been the case for Vietnamese TV star, Hoang Thuy
Linh, when a sex
tape she made with her boyfriend was posted on the internet. It was a
private video that boyfriend, Vu Hoang Viet, kept on his computer. It became
public when an associate copied it from Viet's laptop and passed it onto other
friends, eventually ending up on the net.
Vietnam has a conservative culture when it comes to sexual matters, especially
where public impressions are concerned. Thuy Linh in a sense epitomized this
view. In the Vietnamese TV show, Vang Anh's Diaries, she played the role of a
young woman who is quite progressive in her thinking but who also holds to the
traditional female virtues known as cong, dung, ngon,
and hanh - roughly translated as tidy, charming, soft spoken and
chaste.
It came as quite a shock for Vietnamese surfers to see their TV
heroine getting hot and heavy with a camera recording every raunchy move. Of
course the old double standard, typical of more traditional societies is alive
and well. While Thuy Linh is being outed as a whore and reprobate, her boy
friend isn't suffering the same level of vilification. According to a few people
interviewed about the tape - Thuy Linh's career is ruined and she will never be
forgiven by the public. Her boy friend Vu Hoang Viet on the other hand, can
anticipate forgiveness and some measure of understanding, perhaps even
admiration. The 'boys will be boys' attitude forgives all, but is unsparing in
its criticism of the girls who make it all possible.
The actress made a teary confession on TV as she stepped down as teen role
model. She expressed deep regret for her "terrible mistake" and
apologized to her parents, teachers and friends.
This is absurd. Thuy Linh is being trashed publicly because some jerk posted a
private video on the net! The offense doesn't lie with Hoang Thuy Linh, it lies
with a culture that still demonizes women for doing what guys do as a matter of
course.
Vietnam is modernizing rapidly and views of sex and gender roles are changing.
It's pathetic that Thuy Linh is being sacrificed to appease the requirements of
traditional two-faced morality
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