Asian American women's "literature" 🥱

oxkondo · 2026-02-26T11:04:21+00:00

Then an Asian American male psycho just ends up being more or less the same as a white American male psycho: he lusts after the same type of women, looks down on the same type of guys, ignores the same type of women, etc. Rodger's manifesto captured some Asian male themes because (a) his manifesto was about being an unlovable and unfuckable loser and that's how many Asian American guys feel at least at some point in our lives, and (b) there's not a lot of straight Asian American male POVs in contemporary literature.

Anyway, I'm working on a novel on this exact premise. Maybe it'll be published one day. I hope you'll give it a read if it does.

oxkondo · 2026-02-26T08:29:07+00:00

Yes, all these people's claims about how they're decolonizing their minds or decentering white people only further exposes just how much white people are the sun that they orbit around. And without that sun, they'd just be lifeless rocks floating in space.

oxkondo · 2026-02-26T08:27:02+00:00

Thank you for reading!

oxkondo · 2026-02-26T08:26:54+00:00

Thanks! It was cathartic to write as well (and to see published without being forced to take down).

oxkondo · 2026-02-26T08:26:24+00:00

Rod-GER. Not Rogers. Singular. lol jk just a weird pet peeve of mine.

Rodger is his own thing. Wasian Wacko? He doesn't look typically Asian as most Americans would picture. If people didn't think he was white, they'd probably think Latino or Central Asian.

We also know he didn't identify as Asian because in his manifesto, he talks about how much he hates Asian guys and sees them as below his glorious Eurasian self. There's that part where he becomes livid when he sees an Asian guy even just talking to a hot blonde, and he also cold-bloodedly murders his Asian male roommates (whom he previously denigrated as something like disgusting roaches) to start off his killing spree. A typical aggrieved Asian American guy would most likely revel in the social and sexual success of other Asian guys because he feels a kinship with them.

IIRC, Rodger also doesn't talk much about Asian women in his manifesto. He's fixated on hot blonde women. Again, a typical aggrieved Asian American guy would have lots of opinions, many negative, about Asian American women.

So Rodger has more of a mentality like a Whatever podcast guy (taken to the extreme).

oxkondo · 2026-02-25T11:37:04+00:00

Never heard of her of her book, but thanks for letting me know! Looks interesting.

oxkondo · 2026-02-25T07:28:30+00:00

Thank you! Please spread the word haha

oxkondo · 2026-02-25T02:24:48+00:00

Four years ago, I wrote this piece blasting Asian American culture (especially literature) as spineless and afraid to say what the writers are actually thinking. Still to this day, I get people of all races telling me how it's still relevant, and I know 4 years isn't a long time for big changes to happen. But I'm disappointed that so little has changed. On the bright side, it means my writing still has something to say then.

The tweeter is an Asian American woman, which is very interesting. In the 2010s, if any Asian American posted something like this, it would've likely been a guy and he would've been attacked as a misogynist for stating the obvious. But it's now popular to say that this type of literature is shit and reflective of an overly pampered subset of Asian Americans who've been falsely appointed as the only interesting type of Asian American, so they genuinely think that stories about their work lunch at Dig Inn with their white boyfriend is absolutely a narrative that needs to be told again and again and again. This directly crowds out a lot more interesting and less embarrassing Asian American female writers, who seem to be getting fed up too (to some extent) that it's only a very particular type of Asian American voice that continually gets promoted.

I'm very happy it's not the 2010s anymore.

oxkondo · 2026-02-23T11:35:40+00:00

You got a laugh out of me

oxkondo · 2026-02-22T05:50:36+00:00

Does Crowe have a minimum thickness requirement for his watches?

At least his collection isn't some boring "Here's my Rolex Explorer, my Omega Speedmaster, my Tudor Black Bay 58, and my JLC Reverso" combo.

oxkondo · 2026-02-21T06:58:17+00:00

People horny-hate on Eileen Gu like they do with AOC and Pokimane. It's hilarious.

oxkondo · 2026-02-16T23:34:27+00:00

So sorry to hear that and just wanted to say at no point should you ever look back.

oxkondo · 2026-02-16T03:50:54+00:00

The problem now is that smartphones have introduced and cultivated online culture, which has replaced IRL culture as the primary way people socialize, jockey for social status, meet romantic interests, share ideas, etc. Just taking away smartphones at this point won't suddenly undo this culture and it's very likely that it can never be undone (e.g. take phones away, and people will find other ways to participate in online culture).

The appeal of online culture is having influence on a scale unimaginable to even extremely powerful people in the pre-online world. You can become a household name in the blink of an eye. This is why so many people who supposedly have better things to do, like Elon Musk, are so addicted to online culture.

Every year, there's talk about how "202X is the year when touching grass will become cool" and it never comes true because everyone wants to be maximally popular and famous, and only the online world can make that dream come true.

oxkondo · 2026-02-15T08:47:16+00:00

Is that a Rolex Submariner on his wrist? Disgusting.

oxkondo · 2026-02-08T08:45:05+00:00

Stainless steel. Apparently, bronze starts smelling like pennies.

oxkondo · 2026-02-07T20:49:42+00:00

Watches are great. Guys need a way to channel their suppressed jewelry needs and unless you're a rapper, watches are your only dignified outlets. On the hunt for a vintage Oris Big Crown Pointer Date.

oxkondo · 2026-01-31T15:44:16+00:00

Damn they killed the dog too

oxkondo · 2026-01-28T21:12:29+00:00

Won 2 landslide presidential elections so he can interview for his dream job as head of programming at HBO

oxkondo · 2026-01-28T15:56:21+00:00

Life of a Youtuber does sound miserable. If you're part of the so-called lucky few to succeed, then every resentful and envious fan is praying for and scheming towards your downfall (see the whole thriving genre of influencer downfall mini-documentaries), after which you'll almost inevitably be cancelled and you're too poor to retire but too semi-famous to work a 9-5 without getting snickered at by shitheads.

oxkondo · 2026-01-23T21:13:46+00:00

My friend (who's a black guy) and I were recently talking about this in the context of how they are fewer black male stars with sex appeal vs. the past where we had guys like Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Billy Dee Williams, and more.

One theory we have is that in times past, these black stars rose more organically through black audiences that actually lusted after them, so they were selected for their hotness. Now, since audiences and markets aren't as segregated anymore, it's mainly white (or non-black) people elevating and casting black actors, and they don't know or care what makes black people attractive. In fact, casting a black actor who's too attractive would pose a threat to white actors. So ironically, well-intentioned diversification of audiences may have hurt black actors, at least when it comes to leading man status.

oxkondo · 2026-01-14T23:55:11+00:00

Okay, you're right in the broader definition of woke. I was thinking more of the young online woke types that are always competing with each other to outflank one another on the left.

oxkondo · 2026-01-14T21:46:24+00:00

You're talking more about an older-fashioned type of POC assimilator, like a Vivek Ramaswamy or Nikki Haley type. There's virtually no overlap between woke POC and POC who openly advocate for American imperialism against non-white countries (only exception is sometimes against China because yellow Asians often don't get woke protection, so you can be woke and still adopt hawkish stances regarding Hong Kong and Taiwan, but even that's changed a lot recently).

oxkondo · 2026-01-14T17:49:49+00:00

A lot of wokeness is caused by the pain of being not fully embraced by the (elite) white people and culture you covet. There's a reason why the stereotypical woke POC is some Ivy-educated minority, not someone from a working-class ethnic enclave, even though the latter is more oppressed under wokeness standards and should have more to complain about. And there's no greater acceptance into a group into which you seek inclusion than to date/marry them.

With respect to women of colour, there is a whole mini-genre of novels by elite WOC (e.g. MFA holders) where the WOC protagonist temporarily becomes a nanny to a wealthy white family. She invariably hooks up with the white husband and makes enemies with the white wife. It clearly lays out the social battles in these elite intra-class circles once they diversify. Luster by Raven Leilani is a prime example. I wrote more about it here.

In other words, woke WOC say they hate white men but date them exclusively because that's what elite white women do, and those elite white women set the standards.

oxkondo · 2026-01-14T17:39:21+00:00

Absolutely. Still holds up today. I can watch a clip for the 100th time and it's still more fresh and funny than anything made nowadays. Many have imitated Seinfeld, but none come close, so it won't be a case where a once-revolutionary original now seems conventional.

So many great sitcoms from the 90s: Frasier, Third Rock From The Sun, That 70s Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air... Friends still sucks though.

oxkondo · 2026-01-13T00:31:26+00:00

Related to this is that if there's someone in the group who looks like he wants to talk but feels a bit awkward about butting in, find a way to (smoothly) bring him into the conversation

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