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male chauvinist). Her unleashed rage is at once hilarious--so much tough talk from such a little girl--and therapeutic... Lee leaves you suspecting that Lee's feisty heroine is saying out loud what a lot of Asian
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funny", saying "Lee is a minimalist, using simple Magic Marker drawings, but boy does she have plenty to say. Her diminutive grade-school-age heroine unleashes a torrent of foul language whenever she's offended--and this happens a lot--by any behavior that strikes her as racist or discriminatory (or
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article gives a different origin story: stress from family pressure and studies led to drawing as an escape, then later a friend encouraged her to compile the drawings into a short video. While this video was put away for some years, boredom while working at her family's dry-cleaning business made
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said it is "clear that Lee is Kim's real-life alter ego." Lee said that "You didn't get angry in our house. If you got angry, you were a bad child. The cartoon is my therapy." Each episode was based on Lela Lee's experiences growing up in an predominately white neighborhood.
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You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable" and "For too many months, I’ve been dragged through some nasty negotiations."
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