Arianna Bustos’s Reviews > Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty > Status Update

Would had loved a deeper chapter on her parents. It was scattered throughout how her parents engaged with & taught her about the world.

Overall I see a spirit that honestly just wants an easier time on earth as they get older! I respect it.

Ns that’s not fangirling that’s the relationship skills and identity management lost from pimping oneself out during formative years ns ns ns ns ns

Her talking about white supremacy is the direction this needed to go.

I’m just like…I guess. I think the analysis she presents is introductory meant to mirror her removing rose colored glasses of the western world as she grows. The mention of manifest destiny was spot on. I’d love a little bit more analysis on the psychosexual dominant of western American women.

I see the issue.

everyone but Asian women are the bar/standard. Ww are the ones she must study and model after.

She’s selling sex and I think she traumatized herself choosing sex work. This is a hard read bc the self harm literally doesn’t ease up

Peak loser shit like I’m sorry but had trafficking her own Asian identity to white men not produce the material results and social cache she wanted (which let’s be honest even w money and perceived independence this lifestyle is not aspirational) she likely would have a writers voice that’s more interesting

Feels super tone deaf and performative ngl

I want to like this book but not really sure at this point. Whenever there are lowly character moments they are written almost the same way every time. As if the realization alone is the ‘end’ but it’s self inflicted harm

Idrk what to make sense of when it comes to her randomly picking a woman who is capitalizing off Asian fetish and in response she competes/jumps in the same field