{"id":56917,"date":"2018-10-14T00:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56917"},"modified":"2018-10-14T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T00:15:59","slug":"when-asian-women-are-harassed-for-marrying-non-asian-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56917","title":{"rendered":"When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/10\/when-asian-women-are-harassed-for-marrying-non-asian-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cut<\/a><br \/>\n2018-10-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Celest Ng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/10\/when-asian-women-are-harassed-for-marrying-non-asian-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lede-image\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/fashion\/daily\/2018\/10\/12\/12-asian-woman-computer.w700.h700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/fashion\/daily\/2018\/10\/12\/12-asian-woman-computer.w700.h700.jpg\" data-content-img=\"\" \/><\/a><small>Photo: Jade\/Getty Images\/Blend Images<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The men who harass me know three things: I\u2019m Chinese-American, my husband is white, and our son is multiracial. <em>You hate Asian men<\/em>, they insist; <em>you hate your own child<\/em>. <em>You hate yourself<\/em>. I once received 27 tweets \u2014 calling me everything from \u201cirrelevant\u201d to \u201cliar\u201d to \u201ccoward\u201d to \u201cneglectful <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaslighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaslighting<\/a> mother\u201d \u2014 in 48 hours, from one person. I save these messages in a folder on my computer to document the abuse. Whenever I upgrade my laptop, I copy them over, little packets of poison I must keep and carry forever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/fashion\/daily\/2018\/10\/10\/asian-women-online-harassment\/brandon-ho.w700.h467.2x.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve gotten messages like this for more than four years, ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my first novel<\/a> \u2014 featuring a family with an Asian father and a white mother \u2014 was published and my own mixed family became public knowledge. But this message arrived in August \u2014 #AsianAugust, some were calling it, because of the huge success of Asian-centered films like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Rich_Asians_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Crazy Rich Asians<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Searching_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Searching<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_All_the_Boys_I%27ve_Loved_Before_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>To All the Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before<\/em><\/a>. It was a moment when Asian-Americans were celebrating as a community, yet here was a hate message plummeting out of the blue into my inbox. And like most of the harassing messages I receive, it came from an Asian man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/10\/when-asian-women-are-harassed-for-marrying-non-asian-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men who harass me know three things: I\u2019m Chinese-American, my husband is white, and our son is multiracial. YOU HATE ASIAN MEN, they insist; YOU HATE YOUR OWN CHILD. YOU HATE YOURSELF&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,20,25],"tags":[29000,28999],"class_list":["post-56917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-celest-ng","tag-the-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56920,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56917\/revisions\/56920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}