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> I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s true for everywhere else now, too. Are there sexist and biased individuals out there? Of course. Are there systems still in place from a sexist past that need to be revamped? Sure, and the flood of educated, successful women will eventually take care of that. I can't speak for the women groups, but I think the last sentence in the above statement has not, to their opinion, borne itself out. Thus, the need for groups that specifically advocate for them. I'll say this as a member of an "empowered" minority group... I'm Asian, I've grown up in nearly-all-white communities in the Midwest, my family was technically low-income but otherwise, I never felt disenfranchised. And I did follow in the "model minority" path of working hard and doing well for myself, and Asians, overall, perform highly on tests of academic measure and personal wealth in America. But let's ignore the thing of not all Asian immigrants being on equal footing (that is Chinese/Korean/Japanese is not the same as, say, Cambodian)...Asians, despite their empowerment, get roundly screwed in media portrayal and perception. In news coverage and in popular media. The only reason why I watch WAlking Dead from time to time is because it is so utterly astonishing to me to see a popular lead Asian character who is not at all exotic, not valued for his math skills, and doesn't appear to know martial arts. (there's also BD Wong in Law and Order SVU, but he's not as much in the spotlight as Steven Yeun's character). A friend of my works in an Asian American advocacy group...we both ponder on how Asians are indeed a privileged group, yet at the same time, because collectively we do so little to be the greasy wheel, there are ways we get stepped on. But because the meritocracy seems to be working for us (as a group), there seems to be little desire to get involved in advocacy. |