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Sometimes I think back to stories and experiences I’ve heard and had when I was younger and more naive and ignorant than I am today (though I’m still always learning, of course!).

I remember when I was much younger and my dad told me that a white coworker saw a picture of my parents on his desk and told him that wow your wife is so lovely/beautiful (and whatever other ~flattering compliments white men like to give to Asian women sometimes). and then goes on to ask “what village in China is she from??” bc he was apparently extremely interested in finding a Chinese wife for himself. WHAT VILLAGE DOES SHE COME FROM??? not to say that some Chinese people don’t live in villages or small towns or rural places but LOL YES CHINA JUST CHURNS OUT ~BEAUTIFUL EXOTIC WOMEN~ FROM VILLAGES FOR YOU, RIGHT. “does she have a sister?“ etc. etc. (in other words UGH BARFS FOREVER) my dad told me more recently that apparently that old coworker actually ended up going to China and marrying a Chinese woman or something. I feel sad for that poor woman if he still has the same gross fetishizing sentiment towards Chinese women. I mostly just remember my dad seemed to be amused by that coworker’s antics back then. I wonder if my dad considered it offensive at all or just ~flattering~ that this white man thought his wife was pretty. Idk, maybe he thought about it and wanted to protect me? or idk, I feel wary about asking him about it.

It’s funny and kind of also sad (in that laugh/sob way) how we sometimes don’t realize these situations until we’re older and look back at them. Bc sometimes, society and people want us to believe that we’re supposed to be super flattered that these gross white men would find us exotic and beautiful and shit just bc we’re Asian and all have ~long beautiful black hair and exotic features and are petite and gracious~ and whatever other crap. And that this is perfectly okay bc well hey at least they’re not saying they hate us, so it’s not racist, so we Asian girls should just sit back and be gracious and accepting of it T____T Well, I’m sure we can all happily say fuck you, we don’t want your fetishizing “compliments”.

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#submission

#personal

#fetishization

What will stop the next Bangladesh factory tragedy?

angryasiangirlsunited:

Posted: 20 May 2013

We have 24 hours left until GAP’s Annual Shareholders Meeting begins — it’s our best chance to shame CEO Glenn Murphy into signing the Bangladesh Fire and Safety Agreement. Let’s bombard GAP HQ with calls , flood Glenn Murphy with messages that shame him to personally feel public pressure to sign, and create a ‘social media storm’ on GAP’s facebook and twitter pages!

Here’s a few points you could make:
Glenn Murphy, it is up to you to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement and make sure GAP clothes are made in safe conditions now.

More than 35 companies — including H&M, Zara, and Abercrombie & Fitch — have already agreed to sign the Agreement.

Your reputation is on the line and your decision will determine whether I buy from your company or not.

Call GAP HQ Now

Eva Sage-Gavin, Executive VP of Global Human Resources and Corporate Affairs (+1 (415) 427-6480)

Dan Briskin, VP of Global Employee Relations (+1 (415) 427-5218)

Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, VP of Social and Environmental Responsibility (+1 (415) 427-2640)

Click here to share Avaaz’s GAP Ad

Write on GAP’s facebook wall

Write on Banana Republic’s wall

Write on Old Navy’s wall

Send GAP a tweet!

Tell Your Friends

Please, please, please, please help share this. We could make a great difference.

Signal boost! Please help spead the word.

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#signal boost

#bangladesh

iwasyourteacher:

A lot of comments will be about the racist, misogynistic, imperialist, white privilege issues associated with this (both the English teacher and Miss Saigon), but there’s another problematic aspect to this and that’s the education part.

This is not an example of good teaching practice. This English teacher represents everything education is not: education is about helping students find their voice, not silencing them; it’s about creating discussion and dialogue that incites intellectual and moral growth, not about shutting out discourses you don’t agree with just because it doesn’t fit your framework. And that’s just the beginning.

Fuck this English teacher.

And, Miss Saigon ISN’T a love story.

And, fuck the help.

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#miss saigon

#the help

#racism

godsavethekhaleesi:

why the fuck would someone think that Miss fucking Saigon is a love story

put aside the obvious IMPERIALISM, SEXUALIZATION OF ASIAN WOMEN, RAPE CULTURE OF THE US MILITARY AND ITS DEALINGS WITH WOMEN OF COLOR, RACISM, BELITTLING OF ASIANS BY WHITE PEOPLE, WHITE SUPREMACY, etc

IT’S JUST NOT A LOVE STORY

He leaves the woman for a white woman and wants to get his baby what the fuck is actually so romantic about that?

white people y’all NEED to start trying harder

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#miss saigon

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#miss saigon

Anonymous:

Sometimes I understand why moms of color, lighten their children's skin or straighten their hair. They're trying to lessen the social oppression and pain their kids will feel. They're trying to give them a chance in this world. It's sad they have to do this.

I feel conflicted when it comes to these matters. I wish, I wish, I wish my mama had instead instilled a sense of self-love instead but our foremothers knew no better, thus she too didn’t know any better or perhaps it was an unconscious form of survival tactic. I understand but I am also bitter… and hurt.

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Anonymous:

I told my grade 10 English teacher today that Miss Saigon isn't a love story. I told her that it isn't about the Vietnam War, about the war that tore my mother apart. I told her it's just a wet dream of Vietnam by two Frenchmen. I looked her in the eye and told her "Colonialism isn't a love story". She just waved me off and said "Those are separate issues that aren't a part of it. It's still a love story." I really should've expected that from a whitey who loves The Help.

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the-uncensored-she:

What parents of color and “third-world”/Global South parents— and their children— must endure everyday.

I would rather not know the struggles of being a third world mama in the Western diaspora. I would rather be ignorant of what cruelty my mama endured, that made her instill an idea that has crippled me emotionally. There are days I excuse my mama, I think “she didn’t know no better!” but time ticks and soon enough, I am overwhelmed by a wicked truth… she did know better and for that I will always be bittersweetly grateful.

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"

Of course, invoking the theme of the oppression of women in Islam as justification for war and domination is nothing new to the history of western imperialism. In fact this rhetoric of “saving the women” in the name of “civilization” is an old ploy used many times in the past in particular by British and French imperialists.

This was rhetoric they used with regard to women in whatever regions their empires took them to – in relation to Muslims or Hindus or others – to justify imperial domination. It was about precisely this rhetoric that Gayatri Spivak, back in the 1980s, coined the now famous phrase, of “white men saving brown women from brown men.”

Astoundingly, to those of us familiar with this history, here it was again this old ploy, resuscitated, dusted off, and being replayed all over again – and, even more astonishingly it was actually working. It was entirely commonplace now to hear that we were in Afghanistan to save the women from the atrocities of the Taliban – which as I said, was implicitly understood too to be those innately of Islam.

For, as of 9/11, the subject of women in Islam typically figured in our political discourse almost always to evoke the meaning of “the oppression of women in Islam”.

"

Leila Ahmed (Feminism, Colonialism and Islamophobia: Treacherous Sympathy with Muslim Women)

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#leila ahmed

#muslim women

#feminism

#islamophobia

Call To Action: Tell These Senators To Keep Families Together!

fascinasians:

Support Senator Hironos amendments to keep families together by calling Senate Judiciary Committee Members

The Senate Judiciary Committee has gotten through 90% of the amendments to the immigration reform bill. CALL THESE SENATORS NOW to voice your support for family reunification!

Asian Pacific Islander Americans are strongly affected by family-based visas. ACT NOW!

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