Why?Īs Amy Tan and many other Asian female writers have discovered, as every American who has ever watched the glowing screen mesmerized by the gloriously vicious Yakuza gangster strutting through the red-lit parts of Tokyo or the pockmarked Korean actor who is playing a Chinese guy who rapes and beats the white protagonist’s girlfriend know, Asian men are the perfect villains.īyron Wong (of and Fighting44s fame) wrote an editorial in the International Examiner, “ Heterosexual Asian Men and the Invisibility Problem” (October 19, 2011) that sounded off on the lack of positive representation of straight Asian men. The complaints ring universally: Asian men are more abusive Asian men are more chauvinistic Asian men are weak Asian men fail to protect their women.
We Asian women never say generally “men are horrible.” We say “ Asian men are horrible.” We ourselves buy into the rumor that somehow Asian men are more misogynist than other men. Yet no other group of women display such visceral antagonism toward men of their own race as Asian women do. Women get together and complain about men.
