Source0fAllThings t1_isxlwkg wrote on October 19, 2022 at 1:22 PM

Reply to comment by hottlumpiaz in Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency by _notsuoh_

That would have been a far superior choice. Unfortunately Asian women are fast-tracked to social power because it’s white men who use them as leverage against white women, and, to appear like they’re administering “social equity” when really the “empowerment” of Asian women is only a façade to empower white men. Asian women are complicit in it though. It’s a free meal, why wouldn’t they take it?

IchiThKillr t1_it2xxfx wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:33 PM

That’s a rather misogynistic take on the struggle Asian American women (and Asian women across the world) face. I think it’s dangerous to ignore the actual challenges and countless defeats women as a whole have had to endure to even be allowed in the same room as men. While it’s true some women are elevated as sex symbols, wasn’t Sessue Hayakawa literally just that? And even though he was working film earlier than Wong, I’d still lift her up for the actual fight she put up against the racism and misrepresentation of Asian Americans in media. (And as a Japanese American guy myself, I’d normally be all team-Hayakawa!)