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Researcher Angela Liu indicates that MRAsians' opposition to feminism is an "incoherent solution" to Asian
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According to Angela Liu, MRAsians desire visibility for Asian-American men and seek to be perceived as ultramasculine. They believe that emasculating stereotypes of Asian-American men are linked to disenfranchisement from political power and difficulties in heterosexual dating for Asian-American men.
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The MRAsian movement emerged as a response to the historical emasculation of Asian-American men produced by discriminatory laws and stereotypes found in media depictions. According to researcher Angela Liu (pseudonym), the "hypermasculine ethnonationalism" found in the works of Asian-American author
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community /r/aznidentity serves as a hub for the MRAsian community. Several Asian
American woman public figures have received harassment after being criticized on the subreddit. The subreddit encourages the use of fake Twitter accounts with an attractive looking Asian man as a profile picture to
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and not feminism. She also argues that MRAsians who see Asian women as privileged confuse sexual desirability and societal privilege, noting that non-white groups stereotyped as desirable are subjugated and fetishized, rather than privileged.
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men. The movement has been linked to harassment of Asian-American women, feminists, and public figures, and associated communities are characterized by
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