
I was Asked for an Example of Gatekeeping
Preface:
Master of None was a very popular Netflix show that ran from 2015 to 2020. It was created by two Asian men, Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang. They were listed as the showrunners of the show. The main character of the show was Dev, an Indian Muslim fellow played by Aziz. For Aziz, it was a family affair; he had his real parents playing his TV parents on the show.
The premise of the show was simple, an South Asian American fellow trying to figure out his place in the world as a South Asian Muslim American man living in the west with him anchored to reality with the support of his lesbian African American and a Korean American best friends. Both also having navigating their own lives as who they were.
In 2018, during the height of the Me Too Movement, Aziz Ansari got caught in the 'Mass Cancelling' frenzy. Base many upon many accounts of stuff I read about Hollywood, since the 90s, the Me Too Movement was a much need wakeup call for the entire industry and the American public. Old Hollywood was notorious for 'graping' of young actress. The 'Golden Age of Hollywood' was more hellish than golden. The Hollywood that inundated the world with the ideal white male masculinity was full of grapists, women beaters and murderous gangsters. However, the Aziz Ansari ordeal shouldn't have even registered. He didn't deserve the bullsh*t he went through because, at best, his situation was a bad date. You can read the full People's Article here. The whole situation was so ridiculous that Ashleigh Banfield, white women CNN anchor, came to Aziz's defense. Because of what 'DIDN'T HAPPENED,' Ansari and Yang lost their Netflix show.
Around the time of popularity of Master of None, the movie The Big Sick, about a South Asian fellow and White female relationship, was a hit. As you probably have guested, the character Dev hooked up with white women in Master of None. At the beginning of each season, he hooked up with a white women, and then the relationship goes sour. The next season, a new white love interest came into Dev's life. There were other movies and TV show, around that time, that shared a similar theme of South Asian men breaking out of their comfort zone.
The Gatekeeping:
The South Asian male/White female motif made a considerable wave that a South Asian women wrote an op-ed criticizing the South Asian male/White female dynamic in western cinema (The pursuit of white women: Brown actors like Aziz Ansari have reduced brown women to a punchline). Here's another article written around the time of Master of None that put a microscope on South Asian men and white women in movies. It hasn't escaped me that the Southeast Asian experience is not the same as Southeast and East Asian experiences. However, the gatekeeping of both group parallels. Both South, Southeast and East Asian female liberals (boba libs) not only detest Asian men but want to make sure all women kind also detests Asian men as well. The difference is that Southeast Asian men have been flying under the radar, until recently, while Southeast and East Asian men have been demeaned and degraded for over a century, and western media with their boba-lib right hand constantly remind the world of Asian men's place.
Cause and Effect:
What happened to Aziz Ansari was the cause and effect of Asian men being victims of gatekeeping. Western society and media had to literally got their teeth pulled for them to go after men like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, etc. (list below). Aziz Ansari went on a bad date, and the entire western propaganda came after him because it was easy due to the normalization of hamulating Asian men and Asian culture. That, friends, is what Gatekeeping and affect it have on Asian men and Asian men's psyche. The unattractive Asian men and ick factors were created as part of that Gatekeeping, so are other things that humiliate, demoralized and keep Asian men, mentally, in their lane in western society.
In conclusion, no, you're not paranoid, an INCEL, unattractive, undesirable, a-sexual nor ineffectual.