Joel Kim Booster: I Knew I Was Gay Before I Knew I Was Asian
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
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What Is Race Anyway?
I think for both heterosexual Asian men and gay Asian men that attractiveness in Western society is largely connected to masculinity. And there's a lot of sort of emasculation that goes on in popular culture around Asian men. I don't want to feel like I'm selling out my entire race by just having the interests that I have and being the person that I am, but yet I do feel that pressure. We're in this place in culturally around race where people are starting to have their behavior pathologized in a joking way. You know, white people don't season their food; you're seeing it as a trope. But the fact is that there is no amount of saying white people don
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