(highlight:: Asians as the "The Model Minority" and Its Problematic Implications
Summary:
The concept of the model minority, while initially seeming positive, is actually detrimental and reinforces negative stereotypes about Asian men.
It overlooks the diverse experiences of Asian people and treats them as a monolithic group. Additionally, it is often used to pit Asians against African Americans, suggesting that the latter should be able to achieve the same level of success.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
As the model minority, it sounds positive on the surface, but is perfectly consistent with the more recent Asian male stereotypes that are negative and limiting. You can be less than masculine in traditional terms and still be a model minority, meaning you do well in school, you're economically self-sufficient, you don't say much about being Oppressed. The model minority notion is problematic in several ways. It glosses over the wide differences in the experiences of Asian people, when and why they came to the US and how they're doing economically. It conflates fully assimilated people whose ancestors came from East Asia a century ago, with, for example, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Mong refugees. And as Tim Yu points out, calling Asians the model minority is not really about complementing Asians. The key thing, I think, if you think, you remember, nothing else about model minority discourse is that the model minority is always being used as a club against African Americans. The primary goal in a lot of ways of saying Asians are a model minority is to say, why can't African Americans do the same?)
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(highlight:: Male Solidarity, Feminism, and the "Blue Line"
Summary:
Male solidarity presents a challenge in dismantling the patriarchy.
There is pressure for men to be loyal to each other and to manhood itself. Men often dismiss the Me Too movement as going too far and label feminists as being easily offended.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
You know, at one challenge in taking apart the patriarchy is male solidarity, right? This pure pressure among men to be loyal to their brothers, to be loyal to manhood itself. Come on, dude, don't go all feminist on us agreeing with these critiques. You're letting down the team, making us all look bad. Right.
Speaker 2
It's called the blue line when you're a police officer. I don't know what we call it among men. I mean, we're seeing a lot of that in the men's reactions to the Me Too movement, right? I mean, guys are sort of reassuring each other that this whole thing is going too far and all the feminists have gone crazy. And I just want to linger here for a moment because one of the feminists have gone crazy reactions is that women are offended by everything, right? This is really common.)
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