And it shows! I can't imagine anyone turning you down...
Thanks. Believe it or not. There are.
And it shows! I can't imagine anyone turning you down...
That's very honest of you man niceI find you attractive. I find men attractive in general. I'm learning more and more to see what I do like in a man than what I think I might not. I use my attraction to his personality and the body features that first catch my eye to drive my arousal for the whole guy. This changes how I see similar men in the future. I used to avoid Asian guys when I was younger but have long since gotten over what was internalized racism that extended to all non lily white men, I just avoided. Missed out on great men.
I'm game man ;-)Lets fuck each other lol
That's very honest of you man nice
I totally agree with you man, it takes a lot to be truly honest with yourself. I myself have been at the end of racial Fetishization and the entire preference thing so I understand. I was truly touched by your comment because a lot of gay men have not even reached to the realizationHey I'm a light brown dude who was adopted into a white family and between homophobia and racism I blocked the racism by folding it into the homophobia but it ended up inside me. I have to acknowledge that my choices were racist even if I was never vocal about them. It allowed me to see my own experience of it as well. Just last week some white dude called me a sexy terrorist. For years I laughed that shit off. No more. Truth is no one should have to and part of fixing that is being honest with myself. Racism in sexual preferences is real and it messes people up.
Just last week some white dude called me a sexy terrorist.
Racism in sexual preferences is real and it messes people up.
Thanks. Believe it or not. There are.
how did white men generally become the attractive ones?
This is just my own line of thinking. Admittedly even me, if I see a 'common white dude' I do find him attractive (although honestly my attraction is towards young looking typical boy next door look). But with asians, blacks and other races, it seems that you have to be above average to be physically attractive. Just strange to me.
Very true. A lot of people feel their preferences are “innocent” when really they are deeply rooted in racism and other things.
Why should anyone care if you think their preferences are "deeply rooted in racism"?
No one has to care. That’s what separates a thoughtful person from someone who is completely unaware. It’s like someone not acknowledging their privilege. You can pretend white privilege doesn’t exist, or you can acknowledge it and keep it in mind while going through life with other people who experience this world in a different way than yourself because of race.
I'll grant that you're clever. Enough to keep dodging the meat of what I'm trying to get at.
You said a lot of people feel their preferences are "innocent", and contrasted this perceived innocence to preference being possibly "deeply rooted in racism". This is overtly moral language. The only alternatives to innocent are morally aware/awake (no longer naive), or tainted, and you're obviously not using it in the former sense.
By choosing moralistic language to speak of racialized sexual preferences, you make it clear that that you see it as something that people ought to be ashamed of and ought to recognize as rooted in vice. Which is an interesting expectation. So I again ask: why did you communicate that you expect people to be ashamed of it? Why should they care what you think?
No. Not at all, which is strange because I think Asian women overall are very beautiful.
I never said anyone should be ashamed. I do believe people should strive to be a bit more aware of the world we live in. There are so many white Americans who live in bubbles and have no idea how their words and actions shape the way marginalized groups live their lives. It’s unfortunate, and thankfully we are getting closer to a place of equality, but we aren’t there yet.
When the original poster said something along the lines of he feels invisible when walking into clubs and bars and you (or someone else, not sure) said something like “get over it,” it exposed a level of ignorance on intersectionality in this country. Speak to any person of color who attended a PWI (predominantly white institution) and many will also express the same feelings of invisiblity to teachers and/or professors as well as their peers in these environments. Have you heard of Ralph Ellison? He wrote an amazing book titled Invisible Man that I would highly recommend.
We are living in a world where a beautiful actress like Lupita Nyongo can live most of her life feeling as if she is ugly because of a cultural bias towards white beauty (specifically in this country). Again, we are getting better, but to say “get over it” is to attempt to dismisses this man’s experience as an Asian who is clearly in the minority in many spaces he finds himself in.
You can continue to defend the fetishization of whatever race of people you want. It’s not illegal. Personally, and as a person of color, I am required to look a bit below the surface of the “I’m into black women because they have fat asses” comments. Try talking to more non-white people about these things (intersectionality, micro-aggressions, fetishization, etc.) and maybe it will open your eyes.
I hope someday you’ll understand. If not... that’s the funny thing about privilege... it doesn’t really matter for you, does it?
Take care.
Thank you.
I think it is possible to over-analyse this kind of thing sometimes. Sexual racism definitely does exist, but simple preferences are also sometimes just that, with no sinister baggage attached. Like Freud said, sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.
No. Not at all, which is strange because I think Asian women overall are very beautiful.