MLQ3 on the “problematic ‘Nicole’” (or the problem with us)

FROM the very start, “Nicole” posed a problem to many people. She, herself, was a problem: she was not, according to the idealized standards many men have of womankind, exactly a model of feminine modesty and conservatism. She seemed to be the opposite, actually: uninterested in Filipino men but obsessed with Americans, and aggressive, reckless, and “wild.”