Very interesting editorial from Jaemin Kim in the Huffington Post about American society and their perceptions of Asian woman.

Asian-American women suffer a stunning exception to hard-fought notions about racial equality applied to other minority groups. It is a societal norm to reduce an Asian woman to a sexualized stereotype, a one-faceted “thing” that is exclusively an object of desire. It is with breathtaking ease that even Gawker — read and written by an educated, urbane class — thinks nothing of endorsing this dangerous bigotry.

I repeat: these stereotypes are dangerous. Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence. The racist nature of the crimes go unrecognized and unpunished, as if there is nothing wrong with choosing a rape victim because she is Asian.  Read>