Tag Archives: gender divide

No House, No Date!

 

Look what’s on the NY Times front page: For Many Chinese Men, No Deed Means No Dates.  (Awesome picture, too.)  Yikes, even guys in the motherland have got it tough.  The article says:

…by the exacting standards of single Chinese women, it seems, Mr. Wang lacks that bankable attribute known as real property. Given that even a cramped, two-bedroom apartment on the dusty fringe of the capital sells for about $150,000, Mr. Wang’s $900-a-month salary means he may forever be condemned to the ranks of the renting.

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The Asian Male/Asian Female Gender Wars 2010 (Podcast)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Feminism/Maleism

Important Edit: See comment below.  The “James” commenter in the original post is NOT the same James as Alpha Asian.  Sorry for that!

My Gender Wars Emergency Podcast is done.  It’s 14.5 mbs and 31:40 long.  It’s me and me alone.  Download it here or listen to it here:

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Thanks again to Mondega for letting me use his music.  Learn more about him here.

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Black Marriage Negotiation

I had three goals (including my letter to Apple) to accomplish before I blogged again.  I finished all three–just waiting for some help/advice/permissions before it actually goes out.  I still don’t want to blog in full before sending it out, but here’s something to keep you all entertained in the meantime.

Check out the video above. It’s funny.  Granted, I don’t know much about it, but it brings up some interesting questions, some of which you can see under the video on the YouTube site and on the following sites and on the Root: see here and here.  Here’s a contrarian view, and here’s a reworked version of the video from a black woman’s perspective:

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Podcast: Interracial Relationships and the Gender Divide, Asian American Female Perspective

C-Bruhs (BicoastalBitchin), Eva (Blake and Micah podcast), and Sylvie (Antisocial Ladder) recorded an all-female podcast yesterday.  It’s the third in an ongoing series about Asian American Interracial Relationships and the Gender Divide that we started last year on the first part and continued a few weeks ago with URB4N on the second part.  This third one runs for just over an hour.  Download it here (55 megabytes fat–not phat–since, once again, I ran into GarageBand problems), or listen to it here:

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