Let's get a few things straight.
You can be an Asian massage therapist and not a sex worker.*
There is ZERO evidence right now that any of the women who were murdered were sex workers, or that the spas themselves offered sex.
#StopAsianHateCrimes
You can be an Asian massage therapist and not a sex worker.*
There is ZERO evidence right now that any of the women who were murdered were sex workers, or that the spas themselves offered sex.
#StopAsianHateCrimes
One of the murdered women was the owner of the spa and had worked herself up from being a nail tech. She was a licensed massage therapist. You can see it as the "American Dream" if you want. She worked hard and made good. It ended with an American murder.
The reason the narrative now is all about sex is that Asian women have been sexualized by the West for hundreds of years. Racism against Asian women almost always has a sexualized component - official sanction of this goes all the way back to the Page Act in 1875.
#StopAAPIHate
#StopAAPIHate
The Page Act closed the formerly open US borders and barred Chinese women from entering the country on the basis that we were basically all prostitutes.
#StopAsianHate
#StopAsianHate
We are not submissive flowers or dragon ladies or here for your sexual gratification. We encompass the full spectrum of sexuality and asexuality and dominance and submission.
We're human.
We're human.
* And for the record, sex workers are people and deserve to live and work without fear for their personal safety. Even if any of the women do turn out to have been sex workers, they still didn't deserve to die.
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