Re: Just something I wrote up regarding Asians and the media

Again, the facts do not substantiate your argument. Your point
that women make up the majority of news anchors is false. From what
I've seen, the proportion of female anchors to male anchors is closer
to 50/50 than the unbalanced ratio that you've asserted.
This fact only further supports my argument that Asian males are
vastly underrepresented in the media since the ratio of Asian female
anchors to Asian male anchors is about 99/1. For example, there isn't a

single Asian male anchor on any news program in the entire state of New

York, yet there is at least one Asian female anchor on any given news
program. Also, the ratio of nonanchor journalists on tv favor Asian
females to Asian males by a similar degree.
Katie Couric does not underscore your argument that females make up

the overwhelming majority of news anchors in the media since she will
be the only female lead of a primary evening news program when she
takes up helm on CBS. The other programs are all male anchored.


Sex sells, why Asian males don't seem to intersect with that
fundamental truth I'm not sure. But I know this, media stereotypes do
not automatically equate to "racism" by any stretch.



This assertion is also flawed in the context of my larger argument.

Your promigation that the media has a right to choose a preference for
the sex of a certian race to promote their programming while
predominantly ignoring, and in the majority of cases denigating the
opposite sex of that race is as morally and culturally objectionable as

arguing that the media has the right to predomindantly prefer the
casting of a certain race over another while purposely promoting a
racist disregard for the portrayal of the other. If your argument for
preference were to be accepted, then the media would still be stuck in
the 1950's.
Your assertions fail to tackle the more substantial part of my
argument that the media, almost by policy, promotes a denigration of
Asian male characters while favoring portrayals of Asian females. Your

assertion that stereotypes does not equate to "racism" is also false in

this case since the way in which the media depicts Asian males is the
very definition of the term. Stereotypes only exsits in a vacumm of
unequal representation. When the objective is to promote this policy, a

racist objective can be correlated to this action. Such is the case
here.


The reality is that the media's
tendencies to adversely manipulate the ways in which it portrays Asian
males and Asian females is the very action of the concluded racist
tendencies that you have ineffectively tried to explain away.


Malarky. The burden is on you to show and prove actual bonofied racism
is at play in the media, and I see no evidence of anything approaching
a massive racist conspiracy to lock out Asian males. If it's on a case
by case basis, cite the example(s).



I will not make it a point to cite spicific case by case examples
since examples by such means conotates that there isn't a general
relevance for the argument. Also, this would be a tedious undertaking
for which I do not have enough time for. However, I will cite from a
general list with a few examples included.

1) Lack of Asian male anchors in the media: The ratio of Asian male

to Asian female anchors is overwhelmingly disproportionate. For such
examples, just watch any news program.


2) Disproportionate portrayals of Asian American male and female
characters in the media in general: Off the top of my head I know of at

least four primetime programs with an Asian female supporting role
integral to the storyline. There are many other examples of this.
However, I know of only one Asian male character currently on a
primetime show and the character doesn't even speak English.


3) I know of several commercials with an Asian American female lead

who's coupled with a nonAsian male. I can't think of a single
commercial where the Asian male is coupled with a nonAsian female nor
one in which he serves as the primary character in the commercial.


4) I've seen countless commercials and programs where the Asian
female is included in a larger ensemble cast of characters as an equal,

yet, very few times does this exist for Asian male characters. An
example of this is MTV's the Real World. An Asian female has been
included on the show in multiple years, while there has not been a
single Asian male cast on the show for the entirety of it's run.


I can go on and on citing these examples, but I find it tedious and
boring to state evidence for something that is so obvious and prevalent

in the media.





It's time to step aside and let thos who have a fresh perpsective on

AM


in US media have a say, instead of rehashing the usual boilerplate
critique of all that's wrong with the "White man" and his "racist"
media empire.


This is the problem. There is no one with a fresh perspective or
other wise, on Asian males or on Asians in general in the media who's
willing to speak up. This is why the current situation is the way it
is. Ignoring of this problem will do nothing but further erode any
position that Asian Americans may have to erradicate it.

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