From Amy Tan to Michelle Kwan to Constance Wu, there are many Asian American women who have achieved great success and are upheld as leading figures of the community. But sometimes (and especially online), Asian male support is muted or reluctant. Is it resentment at seeing women in power at all? Or does it have anything to do with the feeling that only by closely allying with whiteness can Asian women succeed at the highest levels in America, thus leaving Asian men behind? Is that what’s behind some of the online harassment of Asian women by some Asian men? In this special-format podcast, Jess poses simple but direct questions for Teen, Oxford, and Jong to answer in hopes of further illuminating the Asian male perspective.

Intro/Outro Song: "Fighters ft. Matthew Santos" by Lupe Fiasco

Intro Voice Track: Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph's argument scene from "Bridesmaids"

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Matthew De Starkey incident at UW-Whitewater: https://proasian888.wordpress.com/2018/07/13/matthew-de-starkey/

The Asian-American Gender Gap: http://benefsanem.blogspot.com/2010/11/asian-american-gender-gap.html

"Straight White Men" play on Broadway: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/magazine/young-jean-lees-unsafe-spaces.html

Chloe Kim and her Father are America’s Soft Power Nuke: https://planamag.com/chloe-kim-and-her-father-are-americas-soft-power-nuke-75df9fa2627a

William and Mary Univ. study on black women and Asian men's representation: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2015/study-finds-asian-men,-black-women-underrepresented-in-magazines123.php

Mark Tseng-Putterman's tweet attacking NPR's Yowei Shaw: https://i.imgur.com/lhOkrMP.jpg

The Slant newsletter criticizing Yowei Shaw: https://i.imgur.com/H7Hl0fW.jpg

Black woman's Instagram post re Michael B. Jordan and the race of his girlfriends: https://i.imgur.com/QX5vDi1.png

"Big Little Man" by Alex Tizon: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Little-Man-Search-Asian/dp/0547450486

"Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-I-Never-Told-You/dp/0143127551