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My girlfriend is taking some East Asia studies and was assigned Leta Hong Fincher's book Leftover Women in one of her classes. Yeah, I know I should probably dump her. It's a book about women in China who can't get married and just when she started reading it, a whole storm erupted about it on Twitter which is how Leta came to my attention. A quick look at her Twitter made me think that here is a lolcow in the making.
Buckle up buckaroos, here comes Leta!
Now, keep this in mind later when we talk about Leta pretending to be a "Person of Color". Look at Leta... the dress sense, the earrings, the frizzy hair... where might we have seen that before?
Rachel Dolezal!
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's get back to Leta.
Leta comes from a privileged background according to this article about her early life:
Tenured uni professor parents, and later she married another journalist called Michael Forsythe. This first news article has a few early warning signs about how Leta likes to make a big drama out of small crap. In it she claims that she saw real heart-breaking poverty during her parents trips to China, had to "escape" from China during SARS to get back to a luxury 1st world hospital.
Leta has moved around journo and academic jobs if you look at her LinkedIn profile. She started to get famous when she wrote this book Leftover Women that talks about women in China who can't find husbands and oooooooh how hard their lives are. You can see it on Amazon. It's the usual boring NYT bestselling feminist book but like PF Chang's has an Asian flair.
So Leta has been the go-to woman for years whenever anybody needed a quote on women in China. So far, so normal. However, it's only when someone younger, tighter and hotter enters the scene that we start to see Leta's craziness.
Enter Roseann Lake:
Yeah, she's got ear rings like cheap Chinese lanterns and is another feminist shrike, but she's sure better looking than old Leta.
Roseann recently wrote a book, also about women in China who can't get hitched, called Leftover in China. Well, Leta wasn't happy about that.
Leta Hong Fincher accuses Roseann Lake of ripping her off
So let's summarize the above: another author writes a book about the same subject, which is a pretty big subject seeing how there are so many Chinese AND women in the world, and Leta gets pissy coz they failed to mention her name and treat her like some feminist guru? She couldn't even be bothered reading the book, but went ahead and accused Roseann of plagiarizing her.
This is when the lulz really start to flow. Leta got mad that someone had written a book on a similar topic to herself without acknowledging her as the ORIGINAL AND TWUE EXPERT and for several weeks embarked on an epic twitter rant of several hundred tweets A DAY, each one crazier than the last and making wilder and wilder accusations.
Here she is saying how da white woman stole her thunder as a woke woman o' color:
Some mean girls making fun of her ear rings:
This Twitter rant has some gems:
Here she is saying how someone writing a book on the same subject as her is the same as sexual assault:
Then she tries to start her own #metoo campaign against the poor woman by saying that she is an evil white woman taking her ideas from her.
In this tweet she likens an email from her rival's publisher asking her for evidence of her claims to rape:
Some people didn't like her trivializing rape when talking about someone writing a book on the same subject, but it's ok, as she is a survivor of sexual assault too:
Aaaaand then she starts to identify as a black woman and rants about da evil white folks erasing her. Fuck knows how she became black when she's half white and half Chinese.
So why is she doing all this? Is she really driven so crazy by a book? Or is it, maybe, just maybe, coz she has a new book coming out and this slandering of another woman could be good marketing?
Leta seems to react quickly and viciously to any criticism, especially from cis-shit white men, so wonder if we may even be blessed with a mention. She posts literally dozens of tweets a day (though she deleted most of the tweets for February 2018 when she was posting hundreds of times every day about how angry she was about this Roseann Lake - shame). Keep an eye on this one boys.
UPDATE
Maybe she has found us out already! (archive)
Buckle up buckaroos, here comes Leta!
Now, keep this in mind later when we talk about Leta pretending to be a "Person of Color". Look at Leta... the dress sense, the earrings, the frizzy hair... where might we have seen that before?
Rachel Dolezal!
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's get back to Leta.
Leta comes from a privileged background according to this article about her early life:
Tenured uni professor parents, and later she married another journalist called Michael Forsythe. This first news article has a few early warning signs about how Leta likes to make a big drama out of small crap. In it she claims that she saw real heart-breaking poverty during her parents trips to China, had to "escape" from China during SARS to get back to a luxury 1st world hospital.
"Mud huts and trains I vividly remember a visit to my mother’s ancestral village, outside Xiamen, in 1979. Many people there were named Hong, like us, but they lived in mud huts and were malnourished and stunted. I was 11 and I towered over everybody."
"Escaping SARS I did a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies at Harvard, and a master’s at Stanford, and then decided to become a journalist. After a few years, I got a job for Radio Free Asia in Hong Kong, helping to launch their Mandarin language service and reporting on the run up to the handover. Later I moved to Beijing, to become a correspondent for Voice of America. I met my husband, the journalist Michael Forsythe, there, and was pregnant when SARS broke out. It was clear that the government had been covering up the death toll, so I flew to Washington DC to have my baby and we decided to stay there."
Leta has moved around journo and academic jobs if you look at her LinkedIn profile. She started to get famous when she wrote this book Leftover Women that talks about women in China who can't find husbands and oooooooh how hard their lives are. You can see it on Amazon. It's the usual boring NYT bestselling feminist book but like PF Chang's has an Asian flair.
So Leta has been the go-to woman for years whenever anybody needed a quote on women in China. So far, so normal. However, it's only when someone younger, tighter and hotter enters the scene that we start to see Leta's craziness.
Enter Roseann Lake:
Yeah, she's got ear rings like cheap Chinese lanterns and is another feminist shrike, but she's sure better looking than old Leta.
Roseann recently wrote a book, also about women in China who can't get hitched, called Leftover in China. Well, Leta wasn't happy about that.
Leta Hong Fincher accuses Roseann Lake of ripping her off
So let's summarize the above: another author writes a book about the same subject, which is a pretty big subject seeing how there are so many Chinese AND women in the world, and Leta gets pissy coz they failed to mention her name and treat her like some feminist guru? She couldn't even be bothered reading the book, but went ahead and accused Roseann of plagiarizing her.
This is when the lulz really start to flow. Leta got mad that someone had written a book on a similar topic to herself without acknowledging her as the ORIGINAL AND TWUE EXPERT and for several weeks embarked on an epic twitter rant of several hundred tweets A DAY, each one crazier than the last and making wilder and wilder accusations.
Here she is saying how da white woman stole her thunder as a woke woman o' color:
Some mean girls making fun of her ear rings:
This Twitter rant has some gems:
Here she is saying how someone writing a book on the same subject as her is the same as sexual assault:
Then she tries to start her own #metoo campaign against the poor woman by saying that she is an evil white woman taking her ideas from her.
In this tweet she likens an email from her rival's publisher asking her for evidence of her claims to rape:
Some people didn't like her trivializing rape when talking about someone writing a book on the same subject, but it's ok, as she is a survivor of sexual assault too:
Aaaaand then she starts to identify as a black woman and rants about da evil white folks erasing her. Fuck knows how she became black when she's half white and half Chinese.
So why is she doing all this? Is she really driven so crazy by a book? Or is it, maybe, just maybe, coz she has a new book coming out and this slandering of another woman could be good marketing?
Leta seems to react quickly and viciously to any criticism, especially from cis-shit white men, so wonder if we may even be blessed with a mention. She posts literally dozens of tweets a day (though she deleted most of the tweets for February 2018 when she was posting hundreds of times every day about how angry she was about this Roseann Lake - shame). Keep an eye on this one boys.
UPDATE
Maybe she has found us out already! (archive)
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