Asian women in general, are both sexual temptation and sexual threat, to be used or to be punished, or both

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From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence https://t.co/Mz1KStaOxd

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) April 3, 2021

Young US Marines arriving in Vietnam are immediately greeted by a Vietnamese sex worker who sashays before them, saying: “Me so horny.”

The Asian woman, who began as a sexual temptation, ends as a mortal threat that must be eliminated by young men trained in boot camp to march with their rifles on their shoulders while they clutch at their crotches, chanting: “This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun.”

Kubrick clearly understands that war, in the masculine imagination, is erotic.

This climaxed in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. This act was prefaced by the 1875 Page Act, which prevented women suspected of low morality from entering the country, the assumption behind it being that all Chinese women were potential sex workers.

This idea that Chinese women specifically, and Asian women in general, are both sexual temptation and sexual threat, to be used or to be punished, or both, seems directly connected, a century and a half later, to the self-proclaimed impulse that drove the Atlanta gunman to Asian massage parlours. Over that century and a half, with American wars in Asia bringing hundreds of thousands of American servicemen into contact with Asian women, both as sex workers and as brides, “the Asian woman became an object of hatred, and lust, a thing to loathe, then desire, the distance between yellow peril and yellow fever measured in flashes”, as the journalist May Jeong puts it.

　アジア系女性は性的誘惑者であり、それゆえに、罪への誘惑者であり、それゆえに、懲罰の対象でもあるわけだね、欧米ではーそこでは、人種差別と女性差別の融合されているわけだ。

ーー外国特派員や米国の教授たちが、米軍性奴隷問題に立ち向えないのは、アメリカの深部のタブーに触れるからかもしれない。