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population experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime.Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin are the newest celeb parents, welcoming their son, Dakota Song Culkin, on April 5.
In comparison, 43.6 percent of women in the general U.S. The range is based on a compilation of studies of disaggregated samples of Asian ethnicities in local communities. report having experienced intimate physical and/or sexual violence during their lifetime. Choimorrow said Culkin’s comments echo the historical dehumanization of Asians as well as fetishization of Asian women, which has made them uniquely vulnerable to sexual and physical violence.Īccording to the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, 21 percent to 55 percent of Asian women in the U.S. … But he's using that as the premise to be able to make jokes about Asian people, which is even worse,” she said.īoth Culkin, who praised Song’s ability to laugh at his jokes, and Rogan, who said individuals used to be able to make such gaffes “if you were married to an Asian woman 10 to 15 years ago,” were ignoring the fact that politically correct culture exists because there is tangible harm done when such two-dimensional images of Asians and others are perpetuated, Dhingra said.Ĭhoimorrow said the way in which Culkin spoke about his partner and would-be children reflects harmful stereotypes that lead to particularly dangerous consequences for many Asian Americans, especially Asian women. “It's not even, ‘Oh, now I understand the struggle,’ which is bad enough. But Culkin’s comments, she said, make it seem as though he’s using his relation to “the struggle” as a “passport to make Asian jokes and basically use your children as an excuse to dehumanize Asian Americans.” Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the nonprofit National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, said the misconception that white parents will understand the struggles of their kids of color often comes from a well-meaning place, but a misguided one.
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Just as men who have daughters can still be sexist and are not immediately in touch with women’s issues due to their parenthood, those with multiracial children can similarly lack knowledge about the experiences and burdens that people of color carry, Dhingra said. “Because you have this sense that you’re an omniscient person who feels privileged to be able to identify with any kind of culture or background.” “If you think you understand someone's struggle, just because you're a parent of someone who has a different race than you, then you're really not putting yourself out there to learn about what it means to be Asian American or be biracial, what it means to be like a person of color,” Dhingra said. He added that because he’d have to deal with the children’s race every day, he would therefore “understand the struggle,” before eventually agreeing with the host, who reminded him that he is a “wealthy white male who’s famous.” We are the joke.”Īt one point, Culkin told Rogan that if he had Asian children, he would be “allowed” to make those comments.
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But it does kind of fit a very tired belittling of Asians - that we are the joke. “I don't want to speak about their relationship in any way. “The jokes he was saying to his girlfriend at the time, about the driving and about how she looks, the punchline to all those jokes is being Asian,” he said. “It’s like, oh, baby, you’re my Yoko.”ĭhingra said that in most of the jokes Culkin described to the host, the punchline itself was Song’s identity, something he felt was “belittling.” “I do it with her all the time, but I don’t do it in public,” Culkin said of making Asian jokes.