shirkers2018dirsanditan:

it genuinely is important to acknowledge the role of pornography in fetishizing asian women’s entire existence specifically for the pleasure of white men, who then go out into the world and view asian women as objects for them to inflict their sexual desires and rage onto. asian countries are home to some of the highest prevalence of sex tourism, including child sex tourism, and southeast asia is still crippled by the sex trade that exploded during the vietnam war. the relationship between asia and the west, and also between asian westerners and white people, is defined by the sexual exploitation of and sexual violence toward asian women. within this country, asian women make up disproportionate shares of the domestic services industry, and frequently work in intimate service jobs such as nailcare and massages. that feeds that exploitation. my mom pointed out last night how anti-asian and anti-female bias in media was underscoring the decision to refer to the business in which these women were killed as “massage parlors,” which has the connotations of prostitution, rather than “day spas,” even though there was no indication that these businesses offered sexual services. its so pervasive