Jess and Diana discuss how the media often covers stories of violence against Asian women in lurid and exoticizing fashion, as if to titillate old Western curiosities about Asian female submissiveness and sexuality.Intro/Outro Music: "Clouds" by Claude DebussyIntro Voice Track: ABC News covering the murder of Ying Ying Zhang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bif_mse0_0&t=36s)TWITTERJess: @cogitatotomatoDiana: @discoveryduckREFERENCED RESOURCES:Exploitative reporting on Yang Song's suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/nyregion/sex-workers-massage-parlor.htmlhttps://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2018/an-interview-with-dan-barry-the-writer-of-the-nyts-the-case-of-jane-doe-ponytail/Respectful reporting on Yang Song by The Appeal: https://theappeal.org/new-evidence-in-the-death-of-a-queens-massage-worker/Exploitative reporting on Asian sex workers in Flushing:https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/inside-queens-hidden-sex-district/ Exploitative reporting on Robert Kraft scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/robert-kraft-trafficking-florida.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/massage-parlors-human-trafficking.htmlErasure of Asian women in reporting of Berkeley rapist:https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/roy-charles-waller-norcal-rapist-charges-trial-13671891.phphttps://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-norcal-rapist-case-20180921-story.htmlAsian news outlets did not erase Asian women in Berkeley rapist reporting:NorCal Man Accused of R‌a‌pi‌n‌g 10 Asian Women Over 20 Years ...https://nextshark.com/roy-charles-waller-uc-berkeley/Erasure of Asian identity in reporting of Flushing kidnapping: https://flushingpost.com/couple-sentenced-to-up-to-25-years-in-prison-for-running-flushing-based-sex-trafficking-operationDownplaying of white sexual imperialism in reporting of George Tyndall USC Scandal: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-george-tyndall-profile-usc-sexual-assault-allegations-20181219-story.htmlExploitative photos, dehumanizing descriptions, and centering the perpetrator's experience in reporting of a man who murdered his Asian wife: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3873742/German-man-admits-killing-Filipino-wife-slicing-body-eight-pieces-sex-holiday-Thailand.htmlComparison of photos between .com and .eu version of the same story about sexual exploitation of Asian women. The US version has a lurid body shot, seemingly of a sex worker. The EU version has multiple, non-exploitative photos: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/sex-industry-military-bases-213311https://www.politico.eu/article/my-body-was-not-mine-but-the-u-s-militarys/One of the many abduction/missing person cases involving Asian women that never get widely publicized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ewyyYpeN8&feature=youtu.beOne of the many cases of white men murdering their Asian wives. The victim's ethnicity gets downplayed or the case doesn’t get US media attention: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/American-man-arrested-over-murder-of-wife-at-Tokyo-Family-CourtSexpat journalists in Asia news coverage: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/18/sexpat-journalists-are-ruining-asia-coverage/Okinawa military base rape/murder (many similar cases happened in the 1980s and 90s): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42192571Scholarly article on White Sexual Imperialism:https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=crsjJourney To The West Podcast's episode on Sexual Exploitation of Asian Women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xexHIxtEhy4SUBMISSIONS & COMMENTS[email protected]