TYRRELLS. BOYCOTT BLUES(tune: Alice's Restaurant)You can get ripped off for sure, ) 5,at Tyrrells Jewelry Store. )Don't go in it's a sure fire burn,taking all the money that you earn.You can get ripped off for Sure,at Tyrrells Jewelry Store.Hey there buddy, where you from, ) 5,well I'm from there too. )Hey now buddy, come over here,don't you love your mother dear?Hey there buddy, where you fron,well I'm from there too.PAGE 7iyLook at this expensive ring, ) )It'll make your girlfriend sing.)Buy it for your girlfriend, oor your wife,you'll be making payments,for the rest of your life.Look at this expensive ring,It'll make your girlfriend sing.2xWe ain't worried if you eegot cash, 2xwe know your credit's good. )If you don't pay up your dough,your gonna get in trouble withyour CO dWe ain't worried if you ain'tgot cash,we know your credit's good.Started this boycott at Ft. Hood, ),now it's nation-wide. : }*People getting together,just as sure as you please,gonna rid the country ofPIGS like these.Started this boycott at Ft.now it's nation-wide.HoodREPEAT FIRST VERSERE ARAN TINT IS INSEE EL: HE EGO Ea I i SC I a a carapace:GITS and Asian WomenoThe sterotype of an Asian woman is that~of a porcelain doll " a cold fragileobject if not of love then of hate. As an object of love (typified in the media bySuzie Wong or the Geisha girl) her sole function is to fulfill every whim of men,If she chooses to rebel against this role, she is typecast as the Dragon Lady/Dow-ager Empress " the manipulator, castrator, and destroyer of men. Her thirdalternative is not to exist at all, to withdraw from society and create aroundherself an hermetically-sealed box " and even then she is not left alone, but iswritten off an inscrutable.�" Asian WomenTs Coalition, New York CityThe Army has found stereotypes of Asian women quite useful " especiallysince most GIs experience long, forced separations from wo:nen, One AsiahAmerican recalls his experiences in boot-camp:oIn Marine Corps boot-camp, the military goes through a psychological andphysical break-down trip on the men so they [the Military] can instill theirvalues, And a heavy part of that trip is the mentioning of women in certainsexual contexts, © : ;oWe had these classes we had to go to, taught by the drill instructors, andevery instructor would tell a joke before he began class, If would always be adirty joke, usually having to do with prostitutes they had seen in Japan or inother parts of Asia while they were stationed overseas, The attitude of the Asianwomen being a doll, a useful toy, or something to play with usually came out inthese jokes, and how they were not quite as human as white women, For in-stance, a real common example was how Asian womenTs vaginas werenTt. like awhite womanTs, but rather they were slanted, like their eyes. Some guys reallybelieved this shit, too. Like when you pet overseas afterward, you kind of tripon the jokes you heard and look for things you remember from the jokes.� -The Military knows that the Gls arenTt able to seek sexual satisfaction duringbasic training and a large part of their combat time, so they use this knowledgeto keep the men down, They continually remind them of their desire by talkingabout women all the time, yet they keep the gratification of this desire fromtheir reach. *According to psychologist Wilhelm Reich, in his book Mass Psychology ofFascism, oThe goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individualwho is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite ofall the misery and degradation.� He goes.on to say, o~, , , the suppression of thegratification of primitive material needs (food, shelter, clothing) has a resultdifferent from that of the suppression of the gratification of the sexual needs,The former incites rebellion. The latter, however " by repressing the sexualneeds and by becoming anchored as moralistic defense " paralyzes the rebellionagainst either kind of suppression.� *Second, the Military gains from using the symbol of Asian women just as itgains from using the words ogooks,� oslants� or oCommunists,� The image of apeople with slanted eyes and slanted vaginas enhances the feeling that Asiansare other than human, and therefore much easier to kill, More than a few Viet-nam veterans tell of incidents of Gls who spend time in combat; then duringtheir Rest and Recuperation periods, suddenly and with no apparent pro-Yocation, will kill a Vietnamese civilian out of a paranoid concept of o~gooks,�The view that Asian women are less than human helps perpetrate anotherMYTH " that of the white woman oback home� being placed on a pedestal.TH4T js not to say. that the white womanTs position is to be envied. Her positionOW nat pedestal is also an oppressive situation.)An example of the owhite woman on a pedestal� can be seen in the words ofanother Asian-American GITs experiences with the Military when he tried tomarry a Vietnamese woman:T wanted to get married when | was in Vietnam, but they (the Military)wovlddy et me, I didnTt push it because of the feedback | got from the begin-MIM yoy see, you have to go through the chain-of-command to get married,even in Vietnam because I was in the rear at the time, ThatTs when I met thisVietnamese girl. First | went to my Section Chief, and he said, ~Man, you donTtwant to marry one of these ogooks� over here. TheyTre not civilized, and if youtake her back home with you, people wonTt be able to handle her because sheTsnot civilized,� And so I said, ~Well, thatTs my problem.T ~oSo then I went to the Gunnery Sergeant, and he lectured me for like allday, and he told me to come back again. And I came back and he lectured meagain and told me to come back again, Then I got to the First Sergeant and hedid the same thing. Finally, | got to the Commanding Officer and he ran downall the bureaucratic stuff that I'd have to go through before I could even getthe consent to get married, You have to go through this waiting time, and theymake you wait until after youTre rotation time, like if you have five months be-fore youTre moved out, then they'll give you a waiting period of six months sothey can get you out of there,oMan, theyTd say stuff like, ~SheTs not an American so she wouldnTt be ableto handle it in the StatesT and ~you wouldnTt be able to trust her once you gotback in the states,T They say, ~Okay, you think you want to marry her now, butthatTs because there are no round-eyed chicks around,� They said that to me,you know, ITm an Asian too, but they said that to me. TheyTd always talkabout round-eyed women " Caucasian women, TheyTd say, oAnd once you getback, youTll see-all those blondes and stuff, and you'll look at your wife andsheTll be this old farmer chick " this gook " and you'll want to get rid of her.You'll be embarrassed when you get back because sheTs Vietnamese.T �To most non-Asians in the United States, there is little if any difference be-tween Asian Americans and Asian in America, Asian Americans are eitherlumped with Asians, and therefore considered oforeigners� or they are invisible.The GI who wanted to marry the Vietnamese girl experienced both, On onehand, the Military, completely insensitive to the fact that he too was an Asian,talked about the oround-eyedT? woman waiting back home, This same brotherupon entering basic training, was called a gook and was made to stand in frontof his platoon as an example of owhat the enemy (the Vietnamese) lookedtike? :Asian American women are susceptible to the stereotypes that Gls have ofwomen in Asia, An example of this is shown in the following story of stillanother Asian-American in basic training, *oBefore everybody crashed, the drill instructor comes through and checksto see that all footlockers are locked, and that you have your wallet. So youstand up on top of your locker at attention in your drawers and teeshirt and hecomes around and he yells at eyerybody and heTll punch a few people; and healways picks somebody and heTlI take their wallet and heTll look at their pictures,I had some pictures of these Asian girls | went to high school with. He madesome derogatory comments like, ~This looks like this whore I knew back overthere (Japan).T Then he took three or four pictures out of my wallet and he keptthem, I couldnTt do nothing about it. I donTt know what he did with them, IdidnTt see them after that, ThatTs. when he saw the picture of my sistér.oAfter lights were out and everyone was supposed to be sleeping, he wouldcome i:to our barracks and act like he was my friend, After harassing me allday, suddenly heTs my friend, Then he started rapping about when he was inJapan and how he had this prostitute for quite a while, He said her last namewas the same as mine, Then he said, ~WhatTs your sisters name?T He knew I had~an older sister and he had seen the picture of her, and I guess he flashed back onhis experiences, Then he started harassing me by saying my sister looked likehis prostitute, HeTd say, ~Yeah, thatTs her, ThatTs the prostitute I had.T �We must fight the mentality that keeps Suzy Wong, Madame Butterfly andgooksim alive, The mentality that tums human beings into racist, murderingsoldiers also keeps Asian Americans from being able to live and feel like humanbeings here at home,~ Gidra ;