This is actually the to begin two relevant articles.
Being a white, heterosexual feminine, my experience is quite not the same as compared to Asian American men. Apart from sex and political ideologies and, say, being left-handed, I’m hardly ever an integral part of any minority team. Then when I decided to publish in regards to the Western label regarding the emasculated Asian American male, I comprehended going in to the topic that this could be a fitness in imparting while learning—and that we needed a specialist guide. We consequently looked to Amy Sueyoshi, Associate Professor of Race and Resistance Studies and sex Studies at san francisco bay area State University.
Her insight quickly reminded me that explanations for How Things Came to Be are far more complex than the kneejerk responses and belief systems they manufacture over time when I called up Sueyoshi to chat about the “cultural castration” of Asian American men, historically cast as impotent nerds, lacking virility and sex appeal (or played derisively by white men, a la Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Continue reading “Isn’t He Beautiful: loathing and fear of Asian United States Male Sex”