The Oxford Study Is a Lie
- May 7
- 1 min read
If you've ever been on the receiving end of an "Oxford study 👀" comment on TikTok — or been the one to drop it — this episode is for you.
Julia & Sasa are breaking down one of the most misused, misunderstood, and weaponized pieces of internet "evidence" in AAPI culture: the so-called Oxford Study. Spoiler: it's a media analysis paper about TV commercials. It has nothing to do with Asian women's psychology — and the original author is horrified by how it's being used.
In this episode, we trace how we actually got here — from the "comfort women" of WWII to US military bases across Asia, Hollywood's 120-year run of submissive Asian woman narratives (Suzy Wong, Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon, Memoirs of a Geisha), the model minority myth, and today's passport dude phenomenon. Then we get personal: the red flags of an Asian fetish, Sasa's katana sword apartment horror story, the desexualization of Asian men, K-pop's cultural reset, and the very complicated question of Asian women who only date white men — and why that's not as simple as the comment section wants it to be.
This is GlowJob's AAPI Heritage Month episode — unfiltered, nuanced, and long overdue.
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