Crimes against Asian women
The New York Post carries a disturbing story about a Princeton PhD math candidate named Michael Lohman who spent the greater part of three years sexually harassing Asian women on campus. Although married, he terrorized more 50 Asian women by (among other things) clipping snippets of their hair which he stuffed into his mittens.
For three years, the married grad student quietly terrorized Asian women on campus by clipping snippets of their hair, spraying them with urine and pouring semen or urine in their drinks at university dining halls, cops say.
Lohman also had lingerie and other clothing believed stolen from women around campus, McManimon said. Cops say they can link Lohman to 50 incidents involving Asian women. Police began getting bizarre complaints involving Asian women soon after Lohman, a Ph.D. candidate, arrived at Princeton in the fall of 2002.
Not only is this extremely bizarre, it’s sadly a rash of crimes comitted against a specific minority group. This is yet another reason to work against popular American stereotypes of the “exotic Asian woman,” and stereotype in general. At Cornell I don’t see a lot of race-related incidents, but if it can happen in Princeton, it can happen in your hometown too.
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4 Responses to “Crimes against Asian women”
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Lohman has serious problems, and we are all glad he has been stopped.
However, to deduce that the cause is pervasive and negative cultural stereotypes of Asian woman (gosh, that covers a lot of female ethnic ground, huh?) is silly. Ted Bundy clearly had a preference for brunettes. What does that tell us? (Hint: nothing about society; a lot about Ted’s sickness.)
Let’s slow down and try to think this thing through, OK? First step? Understand that the Lohman acts were not rational. We need a very different vocabulary to even begin to understand Lohman’s peversity. I truly doubt that studying Asian stereotypes will help very much.
I don’t mean to say that his despicable behavior comes from some stereotype, but I do speculate that his targets were chosen because of Asian stereotypes he may have held. A number of online sources also have taken this opinion.
Really makes you wonder what causes people to go off the deep end when they start doing crazy things like this. I seriously hope he got some help instead of just getting fired or fined or even jail time. The question is though…can you really help someone like this in society?
what happen to our world nowadays? is there any safety place left for women to survive safely…the morality of the people have been decreased day by day..it’s sad to hear this kind of stories..where is the love??