the “nurturing” job…(Marchetti)
However, Lee and screenwriter James Schamus confuse that message with the scene in which Wai-Tung consummates his phony marriage with Wei-Wei. Immediately after Wai-Tung has heterosexual intercourse, he is seen dominating Simon with spankings and takes more authority in what needs to be done moving forward. This straight-male fantasy of the homosexual being able to have sex with a woman is in contrast to Wai-Tung’s arc as a character, but it is also necessary in order to compensate for the years of the feminized Asian male. The conflicting message of needing to have sex with a woman in order to be considered a man or to claim more masculinity while breaking one stereotype only perpetuates another one in that gay men are feminine by nature. Arguably, this execution blurs the attempt to apply masculinity onto the Asian male by