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Asian Women and Purity Culture - Coggle Diagram
Asian Women and Purity Culture
Women are blamed for the sexual transgressions of men, resulting in guilt and shame
(Onishi 12:13) “Purity culture...teaches young women to hate their bodies. Their bodies are seen as the sources of temptation and sexual lust. Their bodies are seen as the gateway to immorality”
“The shooter, who was active in an evangelical church, said that he had a “sex addiction,” an assertion many in the evangelical world recognize as an outgrowth of purity culture gone awry.” (Hong)
“If we overcame our fleshly desires and transcended the needs of the physical body, we were told, we would have more time and space for receiving God’s grace and sanctification.” (Hong)
The motivation for being pure is often to attract men, therefore, purity culture encourages women to center their entire existence around the avoidance and acquisition of men
“I was convinced that if I followed all the rules of purity, I would have a good relationship with God and naturally attract great godly men, and eventually a great godly husband.” (Hong)
"I repented after every physical interaction with a man that crossed the strict boundaries laid out in my books and by my pastors." (Hong)
Asian women are seen as sexually transgressive no matter their sexual behavior
(7:09 Erika Lee qtd. By Onishi) “In 1870, the state legislature passed a law forbidding the landing of any Mongolian, Chinese, or Japanese female for criminal or demoralizing purposes, a law that the state commission of immigration used to deny entry to all Chinese women”
Asian women are perceived as sexual temptations, meaning they are
always
'criminal or demoralizing' to white men, meaning they should
always
be excluded.
(Onishi 8:56) “Asian women and Chinese women, in particular, have been envisioned as immoral...because they are sex workers. There’s this association of Asian women with sexuality and with them being tempters and seducers”
“I was encouraged to give “side hugs,” because full-frontal hugs were very tempting to men, especially those who enjoyed meeting Asian women.” (Hong)
“I realized that I was sometimes perceived as an exotic temptress rather than a China doll.” (Hong)
“Asian bodies are, as the writer Anne Anlin Cheng has noted, ornamental because they’re oriental. Exotic and mysterious. Small and submissive. China dolls or dragon ladies. Lotus flowers or tiger moms.” (Hong)
"I figured that I was the common denominator—the great whore—and I absorbed the shame of feeling impure and far from God.” (Hong)
Christian Nationalism's role in the overt sexualization of Asian women
(Onishi 6:05) “It’s about the idea that Asian people are un-assimilable, that they will never be true Americans, and that they are an infestation that needs to be rejected from the country’s body”
Christian nationalism protects a white and male American social body
(Onishi 18:16) “This is how Christian nationalism works. It uses the banner of faith to smuggle in xenophobia, patriarchy, racism, and in this case, male violence”
The instinct is to say that Long acted out of Christianity (faith), something Americans are conditioned to recognize as a positive and morally correct influence.
Both within the social body and in the Christian male body, women are considered contaminants
(Onishi 17:29) “He [Robert Aaron Long] is saying that sexual purity was the motive. Sexual purity led me to this unthinkable violence...He acted in a way that he thought would eliminate this temptation”
(Onishi 15:10) “We know that the shooter was brought up in the church...that he was heavily involved in youth group culture there. He said in his Instagram tagline that his life was about ‘God, Family, and Guns’”
(Onishi 11:10) “The United States as a body needs to be weary of immoral and degenerate forces like Asian women, and its needs to be weary of the external threats to its safety, in general, from Asian hoardes and invaders.”
(Onishi 25:16) “The higher you score on a Christian nationlist register, you become than double as likely to be not comfortable with a white daughter marrying an Asian man”