Ep. 74: Media Exploitation Of Violence Against Asian Women

Jess and Diana discuss how the media often covers stories of violence against Asian women in lurid and exoticizing fashion, as if to titillate old Western curiosities about Asian female submissiveness and sexuality. Intro/Outro Music: "Clouds" by Claude Debussy Intro Voice Track: ABC News covering the murder of Ying Ying Zhang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bif_mse0_0&t=36s) TWITTER Jess: @cogitatotomato Diana: @discoveryduck REFERENCED RESOURCES: Exploitative reporting on Yang Song's suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/nyregion/sex-workers-massage-parlor.html https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2018/an-interview-with-dan-barry-the-writer-of-the-nyts-the-case-of-jane-doe-ponytail/ Respectful reporting on Yang Song by The Appeal: https://theappeal.org/new-evidence-in-the-death-of-a-queens-massage-worker/ Exploitative reporting on Asian sex workers in Flushing: https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/inside-queens-hidden-sex-district/ Exploitative reporting on Robert Kraft scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/robert-kraft-trafficking-florida.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/massage-parlors-human-trafficking.html Erasure of Asian women in reporting of Berkeley rapist: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/roy-charles-waller-norcal-rapist-charges-trial-13671891.php https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-norcal-rapist-case-20180921-story.html Asian news outlets did not erase Asian women in Berkeley rapist reporting: NorCal Man Accused of R‌a‌pi‌n‌g 10 Asian Women Over 20 Years ...https://nextshark.com/roy-charles-waller-uc-berkeley/ Erasure of Asian identity in reporting of Flushing kidnapping: https://flushingpost.com/couple-sentenced-to-up-to-25-years-in-prison-for-running-flushing-based-sex-trafficking-operation Downplaying of white sexual imperialism in reporting of George Tyndall USC Scandal: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-george-tyndall-profile-usc-sexual-assault-allegations-20181219-story.html Exploitative photos, dehumanizing descriptions, and centering the perpetrator's experience in reporting of a man who murdered his Asian wife: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3873742/German-man-admits-killing-Filipino-wife-slicing-body-eight-pieces-sex-holiday-Thailand.html Comparison of photos between .com and .eu version of the same story about sexual exploitation of Asian women. The US version has a lurid body shot, seemingly of a sex worker. The EU version has multiple, non-exploitative photos: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/sex-industry-military-bases-213311 https://www.politico.eu/article/my-body-was-not-mine-but-the-u-s-militarys/ One of the many abduction/missing person cases involving Asian women that never get widely publicized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ewyyYpeN8&feature=youtu.be One of the many cases of white men murdering their Asian wives. The victim's ethnicity gets downplayed or the case doesn’t get US media attention: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/American-man-arrested-over-murder-of-wife-at-Tokyo-Family-Court Sexpat journalists in Asia news coverage: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/18/sexpat-journalists-are-ruining-asia-coverage/ Okinawa military base rape/murder (many similar cases happened in the 1980s and 90s): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42192571 Scholarly article on White Sexual Imperialism: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=crsj Journey To The West Podcast's episode on Sexual Exploitation of Asian Women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xexHIxtEhy4 SUBMISSIONS & COMMENTS editor.planamag@gmail.com