They are all beautiful, 2021, Video Installation
Preferences based primarily on race often reflect fundamental racial biases rather than genuine personal attractiveness.
The audio work suggests how Westerners have viewed Asian women in an almost entirely sexual light.
It also demonstrates a preference for Asians might be motivated by an antifeminist backlash among men who are against women endorsing feminist values of independence and autonomy, and wish to return to traditional gender roles.
Almost all of those interviewees started with a sentence that negates Asian women as submissive, but, nevertheless, they all mentioned that Asian women are submissive.
The rampant Asian sexism/fetishism is interrelated to immigration law, military occupation of East and southeast Asia, war brides, sex tourism, pornography, and mail-order brides. Moreover, the ‘gendering’ of races, whereby Asians as a racialized group are stereotyped as feminine, due to their purportedly shy, soft-spoken, and submissive racial ‘essence’.
While Asian women are already subject to sexual objectification as women, racial depersonalization involves a further dimension of objectification which is called ‘fungibility’ and in which a person is treated like an object interchangeable with other objects.
Many Asian women still feel like they have been objectified, exotified, and hypersexualized because of their Asian appearance.
With all the stereotypical ideas of Asian and racially inflected comment or joke, people of colour must decide whether or not to question it, ignore it, analyze it, challenge it, file a complaint, seek others’ opinion and validation, etc.—all of this takes energy and a toll that is often invisible to those not directly affected.
The audio work suggests how Westerners have viewed Asian women in an almost entirely sexual light.
It also demonstrates a preference for Asians might be motivated by an antifeminist backlash among men who are against women endorsing feminist values of independence and autonomy, and wish to return to traditional gender roles.
Almost all of those interviewees started with a sentence that negates Asian women as submissive, but, nevertheless, they all mentioned that Asian women are submissive.
The rampant Asian sexism/fetishism is interrelated to immigration law, military occupation of East and southeast Asia, war brides, sex tourism, pornography, and mail-order brides. Moreover, the ‘gendering’ of races, whereby Asians as a racialized group are stereotyped as feminine, due to their purportedly shy, soft-spoken, and submissive racial ‘essence’.
While Asian women are already subject to sexual objectification as women, racial depersonalization involves a further dimension of objectification which is called ‘fungibility’ and in which a person is treated like an object interchangeable with other objects.
Many Asian women still feel like they have been objectified, exotified, and hypersexualized because of their Asian appearance.
With all the stereotypical ideas of Asian and racially inflected comment or joke, people of colour must decide whether or not to question it, ignore it, analyze it, challenge it, file a complaint, seek others’ opinion and validation, etc.—all of this takes energy and a toll that is often invisible to those not directly affected.