CW: suicide
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hair-loss-drug-finasteride-side-effects-1.7483898
Some men experience side effects like reduced/absent libido, depression, and other negative mental health effects. I don’t know how rare they are but to me it’s not worth the risk just for my own vanity. Sure the pharma companies deny it’s a thing but they have a clear profit motive so I don’t trust a damn word they say
I’ll try to provide a serious answer.
The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like “yellow peril” describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it’s not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.
It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it’s difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there’s such a racist connotation/history there.