salaam world

Yet objectifying and assigning value to Asian women is okay in the mainstream. Why? Because we are “helping them” by telling them what we think they should do with their bodies? Because Asian women are submissive and quiet and won’t speak out for themselves? “I Can’t Stop Looking at These South Korean Women” is a piece which is endemic to how American media looks at Asia, particularly Asian women, and even more particularly Asian women’s appearances.

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On exoticizing Asian women, that Jezebel article, the inability to see Asian women as individuals

The fury and indignation at Jezebel never ends. And then the inevitable cry from Jezebel Kool-Aid drinkers, “Why are you trying to tear us all apart? Feminists should stick together.”