The growing movement against Hollywood's hypersexualization of Asian women
The hypersexualization of Asian women is not new, Cho said, and in fact directly contributes to the violence perpetrated against them. Cho explained Hollywood and the television industry have a history of portraying Asian women as sex objects, one-dimensional "model minorities," or not at all. "We've gone from invisible to untouchable," she said. "And those two combinations are adding to a dehumanizing effect, because either we're superhuman, or we're not there." A history of hypersexualization Film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu has been looking at that trend for years. In her book ...