05/13/2026
Last week, men in my city’s Facebook community group responded to a news article about Arcadia’s mayor — a Chinese American woman — with comments like that are among the oldest, most degrading stereotypes weaponized against Asian women. (Swipe to read at your own discretion)
The mayor’s guilt in this legal matter is not my focal point here. I hope justice is served according to the law. But the moment her face appeared on screen, she stopped being a public official and became an object to sexualize and mock. As an Asian American this is extra offensive.
For those in sexual addiction recovery, moments like this matter deeply. The casual objectification of women in public spaces (normalized in comment sections, laughed off as jokes, affirmed with thumbs up) is the kind of cultural clangor that reinforces the distorted thinking patterns that recovery works so hard to dismantle. Healing requires building a new relationship with how we see other human beings. That work is made that much harder when our own communities model the opposite.
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