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Victim-blaming with a dash of racism
Asian fetishist terrorizes more than 50 Asian women on college campus.
And it doesn't stop there. Keep reading down to the victim-blaming sentiments expressed in the discussions at the bottom of the page. For clarification on some slangs:
- "yellow cab driver/service" refers to a woman of 'yellow' ethnicity that is easy to 'ride,'
- a "sell-out" is a race traitor term more often applied to Asian women than men,
- CCBs also means white-worshipping Asian women, self-haters, women ashamed of their race just because they date white men, similiar to "sell out," I think,
- a "whoriental" is a term created under the assumption that it is biological for all Asian women to want to be desired,
- "IR" is short for interracial relationship,
- and of course AF and AM mean Asian female and Asian male respectively.
The attitudes are that Asian women should not expect sympathy after they've been raped by white men because, for dating them, they had somehow brought that fate down upon themselves, and that "they are their own worst enemies." The article says that only 8 percent of Asian female victims come forward with reports of rape. I wonder why? The writer of this article is then criticized as a sell-out for commenting on victim-blaming within the Asian culture (not that this is only where it happens). Classic chicken-egg dilemma.
Gotta love the "If only Asian women didn't fill the Dragon Lady roles in movies, this wouldn't happen," argument too. I rarely see people arguing, "If only Asian men didn't take those stereotypical nerdy roles that feminized and desexualized their image! They brought racism upon themselves!" I believe in neither of these, but it does demonstrate the double standards and blaming language.
It's running into things like these that make me feel that if I did type a rant here, I would sound awfully redundant. What isn't there to find offensive in that discussion? It strikes me as ironic that the forum's called "Model Minority: A Guide to Asian-American Empowerment."
A Chinese-Canadian acquaintance of mine had been date-raped and she can't report it out of fear her parents would find out. The culprit is a white guy, a 'friend' of one of our mutual white guy friends. The sickening thing is that they still all bump into each other occasionally and ignore the entire thing. I personally don't know the rape victim that well, and I've never met the culprit. Imagine a wheel of acquaintances with one guy, our mutual friend, as the hub. He told me what happened a year after it happened. When I said we should do something about it, he got all uppity and said it'd be too intrusive and that I should leave it alone, and that a year had passed anyway and she was supposedly recovering from it.
I have no problem plowing over him to get to her-- and on a tangent, he can be irritating when he goes on long tirades about how white males are oppressed nowadays. I just don't know if she'd trust me and I don't know if she'd appreciate it. There's also no proof she would be able to show to anyone, and I just might inadvertantly make it difficult for her. And she's a shy girl, doesn't have that many friends. I wish I could do something.
I fought off a would-be rapist in my first year at university. I got a lot of positive feedback from peers after that one, but sometimes I wonder how it would have been had he been successful.
Sometimes I'm tempted to attend a party with this culprit, toss a drugged martini over my shoulder, and pretend to pass out. Uppercut to the groin on contact. Oops, did I just dragon-lady?
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feminist_rage,
