"[2] The lack of and negative stereotypical representations of Asian-American women in Western popular culture denied Nellie Wong the agency to privilege her intersectional identity.
The result of this patriarchal tool made Wong shameful of her Chinese heritage: "when I was growing up, I felt/dirty.
I thought that god/made white people clean/and no matter how much I bathed/I could not change, I could not shed/my skin in the gray water.
"[2] Nellie Wong's piece identifies the invisibilization of racial issues in the second-wave feminist movement.
Although some argue that we live in a post-feminist society, that women have achieved equality, today this poem still speaks great volumes regarding the ways in which hegemonic femininity is still perceived and the tokenism people of various racial, sexual, religious, class, socio-economic status are portrayed as in Western popular culture and media.