The Conversation
- Gender Divide Podcast (20)
- Eric: It is clear that in today’s geopolitical world, the only thing that people seem to respect is FORCE. What...
- Eric: Ultimately, changing this world from being a Western world —> into a multipolar world is the goal....
- Eric: The solution is this — you have 2 choices in fighting the gender divide / IR disparity. 1) Continue to...
- Summer 2013 book reading/reviews at bigWOWO (2)
- The Post-PUA Era of the Asian American Blogosphere (120)
- NSA leaker (33)
- N: Ignore my post above. Writing on a phone between traffic lights are not a great idea. @king My point is, we should...
- N: @king You’re missing my point completely. Can’t you see it’s tge lack of critique and...
- King: Hey there Mojo: I’m not so much arguing that the government is either monolith or that it is dead set...
- Rupert Murdoch files for divorce (14)
- DAMM: Wendy’s brilliant career; each guy more richer than the last.
- Elagabalus: I guess the term ‘Yellow Cab’ wouldn’t apply here. I think ‘Yellow Limo’...
- N: After Jake Cherry and Murdoch, the next batter up is Tony Blair? It would be hilarious if true.
- Supercapitalist on Hulu (16)
- N: @indieking Indie films sucks in general, the majority are films that suck so badly that it’s not worth the...
- indieking: AA indie scene sucks, indie film from AA who goes back to HK to get support sucks, so how are you going to...
- Dman: Instead watch Byron Bigwowo favorite Asian American playwright David Henry Hwang semi-autobiographical teleplay...
- Where are you from? (11)
- bigWOWO: Here’s Ken Tanaka’s follow up: It’s pretty funny! It reminds me of Smelly Guys Is A Bad...
- K. Wallace: I once asked my lab partner in college where she was from (she happened to be asian american) At first I...
- John Doe: Along with all the where you are from questions, I wonder what would have been the reaction if the leaker...
- China’s lack of branding (or Universalism Pt. 2) (21)
- Bint: Building up a strong economy and branding take a whole lot of time, years and even decades. Among these two,...
- Nottyboy: I don’t think that quality assurance scandals like the ones about the toxic baby formula help. I...
- Ei: Chinese love both European and American cars. They are viewed as high quality and safer. Japanese cars are not...
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (872)
- King: Well, it’s an interesting idea… but you do realize that you’re taking an article that is...
- Thak: @2nd Choice, This is true. White women like to comfort/delude themselves with the false belief that Asian men...
- Second Choice: That’s HER opinion on why she believes no man has asked her out. She doesn’t even get hit...
- 29-year-old novelist transcends race and culture (13)
- Pozhal: King, No, most authors do not become face recognizable until they’ve had their movies made into...
- King: I think that most authors do not become face recognizable until they have had several best sellers.
- Chr..: “While I don’t doubt that “Asian Man Invisibility Syndrome” exists, very few people in America would be...
- Interview with Darren Leung about The Grandmaster (6)
- Fast&FuriousDrew: LOL @ kobukson, robocop, and King.
- King: ^ me too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =z-q29hbEP04
- robocop: @kobukson I’d buy that for a dollar
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (482)
- King: ^ Ha! Yes, using the word “Scientific” in the title means that it can’t be possibly be...
- “Want an ethical career? Become a banker.” (3)
- Teen invents supercapacitor phone charger (16)
- bigWOWO: John, I agree. My hope is that these cars will get better in time. I remember when the pocket calculator...
- John Doe: “but hey if that doesn’t work there’s been an idea of a thorium power plant for a while now:”...
- John Doe: Tommy, If I remember by college science class correctly, that video just describes a basic hydrogen fuel...
- Black man denied entry to Asian club in NYC (269)
- We Sinners by Hanna Pylvainen (Review) (5)
- bigWOWO: BTW, I LOVED the last chapter, even though some people thought it was hard to relate to the rest of the...
- bigWOWO: Auvo T, That’s awesome! I think you’ll like the book. It’s specifically about...
- Auvo T: So we are mislead, Rovaniemi is the name of the family, not the town (in Finland) where they live. The book...
- Osaka mayor defends Japan’s wartime sex crimes (32)
- N: On the other hand, how many of you guys actually remember Hatoyama Yukio, an ex-Prime Minister in Japan that...
- New study says tiger parenting doesn’t work (19)
- White History Month (3)
- The Asian Female Celebrity Club (AFCC) Embargo (280)
- smh: You know…Zhang Ziyi has consistently dated Chinese guys. Vivi Nevo was the only white guy she dated afaik....
- The ethnic media’s war on minority personal responsibility (8)
- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, I totally agree. To be quite honest, for me, as a person who has been following race since high...
- Eurasian Sensation: Seems like there are a few different issues at play here. I think a lot of people in public...
- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
- The Association of Asian American Studies and the boycott of Israeli institutions (19)
- N: @john doe Anyone who thinks the way that israel is created is acceptable should be happy to give back New Nexico,...
- John Doe: ^Yes Chr, I do know. Given all that doesn’t it make sense that Europe bear the burden of creating the...
- Chr..: Do you guys not realize that the State of Israel was created because of European anti-Semitism, and its...
- Gender Divide Podcast (20)
Tag Archives: interracial relationships
Asian American Generational changes, and how the IR debate is a Generation-X thing
I’ve been watching some Asian American Wong Fu videos. It looks like they’re sponsored by large corporations like HTC and AT&T. It’s a pretty cool marriage between art and commerce, especially given how hard it can sometimes be for Asian Americans in film to crack the media ceiling. I’m also reading a novel called An American Sin by Frederick Su. Su is a former Marine from the Vietnam era, and his protagonist David Wong grows up as a Baby Boomer before he eventually gets shipped out to Vietnam. In the course of my reading, it occurred to me that we can now see generational changes among Asian Americans through the years in media. We can now see what has defined each generation’s challenges.
Asian Marriage Negotiations
This was HILARIOUS. I first saw it on Ben Efsanem’s blog; he wrote about it at length here. It was produced by our very own mwei, and it’s based on the video Black Marriage Negotiation, which went viral. He got it right with his Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston references.
“Don’t you try to bind my feet! I am a Woman Warrior!”
“I want to be with my Prince William, not William Hung.”
“Don’t you oppress me with your chauvinist patriarchy lies!”
LOL!!!
Imported brides in the modern age
The picture above is a 57-year-old American white guy who married a 24-year-old from the Philippines. They met online through a dating service. It’s been a few years, and now he’s 63 and still married. He wrote an article about it here: My Imported Bride. Evidently, there are many, many such couples:
Consisting mostly of American men with younger Filipino wives and, increasingly, the children they have produced, our group—which began when some of the women connected on the Internet—has evolved into an active, though informal, association with frequent gatherings at various homes.
Married teacher has sex with student
What is it with married teachers and API boys? According to the NY Daily News:
English teacher Erin Sayar, 35, is accused of having sex with 11th-grader Kevin Eng at least eight times last December when she was supposed to be tutoring him. The trysts happened in her SUV and at Brooklyn’s scandalized James Madison High School — which was dubbed “Horndog High” in 2009 when two female teachers were axed after two handymen caught them in a naked embrace in a classroom.
American woman becomes hero to abused women in China
Kim Lee
Saw this story: American woman Kim Lee unlikely hero to millions of battered wives in China. On the one hand, major props to Kim Lee for stepping out. I’ve heard (from my own grandparents, no less!) that the culture in China is crazy in many ways, and that there are no rights. She’s done a brave, brave thing by stepping out, especially against a rich dude like her husband.
On the other hand, two things bother me.
First, it feels like the media is trying once again to pin the tail on the Asian male. From the article:
Posted in Activism, media, News
Tagged China, domestic violence, interracial relationships
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I Hate You, new AM/WF indie movie
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that you could help fund indie filmmaker Joyce Wu. Because it was an AF/WM movie, some of you were interested, some of you weren’t. But if you’re interested in pushing for the other team and funding an AM/WF movie instead, click on the trailer above or go here. It looks like there isn’t much more time to donate to this project. Got this news item from angryasianman.
More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race
Haha…J sent this one: More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race. It begins:
WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends or girlfriends. In her social circles, it was simply the way of the world.
But today, the majority of Ms. Young’s Asian-American friends on Facebook have Asian-American husbands or wives. And Ms. Young, a Boston-born granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, is married to a Harvard medical student who loves skiing and the Pittsburgh Steelers and just happens to have been born in Fujian Province in China.
Corinna
I have no idea who this is, but I know some of you will like it. I’m not sure whether it’s my duty to get y’all to think outside the box, or whether it’s my duty just to be a pain. We’ll get back to some serious programming…in a little while.
The Three Kinds of WM/AF (White Male/Asian Female) Portrayals
I’ve been reading the Joyce Wu comments with interest. She’s been taking some heat, and I don’t think it’s fair. As y’all know, we go through these gender wars from time to time, and I thought I should clarify something for the men here: Not all WM/AF portrayals are the same, and I think that some of these portrayals are better than others. To make it easy, I’ve broken them down by category. Usually works fall into one category, but they can also be in more than one at once (Free Food for Millionaires, for example, is both Porn and Heartfelt at the same time. And as I said below, there’s nothing wrong with Porn–as long as you call it what it is. I’m being serious here too–even a powerful author like Christos Tsiolkas has said that he has some major pornographic elements in his work.)
Posted in AF/WM Theme-orama, Asian American, media
Tagged interracial relationships, Joyce Wu
47 Comments
One Broke Girl and One Asian Web Master
Thought some of you PUAs and militant types might like the clip above. See it on the CBS website here. A little while back, there was some dealio with 2 Broke Girls racist something or other, and I think this was an attempt to make up for it by giving the blonde broke girl a one night stand with an Asian dude. I must say: I think it’s great whenever they give Asian actors a chance.
(I’ve not seen this show and therefore can’t comment on anything other than the clip. Thanks, JJ, for the lead.)
