Is there some reason behind the hostility and the violence against Asians is so focused on women

[Nexus2]

and the elderly? Or is it the short and sweet clear answer: Most of the a**holes doing this crap are sniveling cowards?

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Oh, come on!!!

You KNOW that every red-blooded (and red-hatted) American thinks that every Asian male has studied with Jackie Chan and would kick any attacker from here to, say, some ranch in Texas.........

YES, they are that stupid - and cowards!

[brewens]

2. They probably think most Asian men are Kung-Fu masters. n/t

[hurple]

6. I was gonna post this

How dare you steal my joke.

[brewens]

8. It appears MyOwnPeace above beat us both to it. n/t

[TDale313]

3. Misogyny is also a huge part of this.

Asian women are too often hypersexualized and fetishized. That’s my take anyway.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. This

American society has fetishized and dehumanized Asian women.

These massage parlors would not be tolerated if it was any other ethnicity. We know what goes on in them, they are centers for human trafficking and sexual slavery. The girls forced to work in these places are held captive, beaten, raped, and abused in horrible ways after being tricked to come to America. None of them signed up for this. Why they are allowed to continue to operate in every city in our country is because of pure racism.

If someone was tricking and kidnapping young English girls and forcing them into sexual slavery in massage parlors across the US, it would be stopped before it was even started.

These places are houses of evil and are a total hellish existence for the young women held captive inside them.

[whathehell]

9. Yes, and that's being largely ignored..

Notable because, for one thing, one need not be Asian to be a victim of sexist abuse.

[hlthe2b]

4. That would be my guess. These racists have likely watched enough martial arts movies to be wary.

[Hortensis]

5. It's very possible the Atlanta killer was motivated by hostility to WOMEN

and that he was attracted to Asian women as his "type."

Hostility to women, of a variety of types and causes, outweighs in depth of potential passions all racial hostilities combined. Women are half of all humanity and half of all races, after all, and important emotionally to men whether they're part of their personal lives or not. And empowered women tend to be far more threatening to insecure men in a variety of ways than empowered men of a different color.

Women as a category was added to our definition of hate crimes belatedly, but putting a stop to the ancient and widespread acting out of hatreds based on gender should have been the most compelling reason it was written in the first place, along with the other compelling reasons of race, religion, ethnicity, etc.

[Kablooie]

10. This could have been violence against prostitutes as opposed to Asians.

Asian massage parlors are known to often offer sexual services. There is a long history of prostitutes being murdered going way back to Jack the Ripper.

This is an aspect that should be considered unless the facts prove otherwise.

[treestar]

12. Very possible

https://rights4girls.org/wp-content/uploads/r4g/2016/08/Racial-Disparities-Fact-Sheet-11.2017.pdf

Just a quick google on the relationship between race and prostitution.

Note to the ultra virtuous: This is not justification of any kind, but simply pointing out WOC are more likely to be victims of sex trafficking and prostitution, and that is a study showing that. It is not victim blaming.

[displacedtexan]

11. Too much of a coward to try this in a redneck strip club.

Those Asian women were easy targets for that loser, and they ticked several of his bigot boxes.

I'm sure he didn't want to confront confident bouncers, and killing Asian women also solidified his standing with his fellow wingnuts.

[ratchiweenie]

13. Yep, cowards.