Asian American Gender Politics in Media

This past August, murder charges were dropped against Martunovich, as the judge in charge of the case found him mentally unstable. At the height of tensions over anti-Asian racism, this ruling seemed to be a slap in the face to the Asian American community. Only curiously enough, Asian Americans journalists would never utter a word on the matter. The journalists who covered the story were non-Asian and posited the question if it was even a hate crime <a href="https://douglaskim.substack.com/p/asian-american-gender-politics-in#footnote-2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2</a>. Why was there neglect on what constituted a clear hate crime against Asian Americans? Instead, some Asian American journalists seemed to be more interested in another topic entirely: boosting Aaron Mak’s recent <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/mens-rights-asians-aznidentity-stop-asian-hate-reddit.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">exposé</a> of Men’s Rights Asians. The topic of white adjacency, colonialism and interracial relationships has been a contentious one in the Asian American community for decades, and the article’s release started weeks of mud slinging from Asian men and women on both sides of the debate. With so many recent changes on the American dialogue on race, many of the article’s assertions were outdated or misrepresented Asian Americans. As someone who’s closely followed Asian American history in media and how the Asian American gender divide manifested, I felt compelled to share my analysis and thoughts. <a href="https://medium.com/@swiftjustice/asian-american-gender-politics-in-media-c93bf55f0858">Visit Now</a>