Daniel Tsang makes a point in their article “Notes on
Queer 'N Asian Virtual Sex” about how the Internet allows people to transcend
their identities by pretending to be under a completely new guise due to the
anonymity of posting things online.
Tsang discusses about his sexuality and how he would connect to the
Bulletin Board System (BBS) in order to get the comfort they wanted from the
gay Asian male community online. Tsang
also touched base on gay Asian men on BBS are eroticized and exotifed, being
treated as the “other” since it is the white male depicted as the ideal. While reading this article, I appreciated how
Tsang shed light on how the gay Asian male is exotified by still not being
enough for the mainstream. I feel like
this accurately reflects the mainstream standards of beauty in America.
Question: How can one approach the deconstruction of
beauty standards? How did the beauty
standard came to be?
Citations:
Daniel C. Tsang (1994) Notes on Queer 'sN Asian Virtual Sex. Amerasia Journal: 1994, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 117-128.
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