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Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women

Posted on October 20, 2011 by bigWOWO

About ten years ago, I read a book called “Envy of the World” by Ellis Cose, where he talks about what it’s like to be a black man. He wrote about black men’s appeal to White women and how some black women were resentful of BM/WF, even if, in his explanation, 9 out 10 black men who married did so with black women. Fast forward ten years, and Moroboshi wrote this statement in the last HBD thread:

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No House, No Date!

Posted on April 14, 2011 by bigWOWO

 

Look what’s on the NY Times front page: For Many Chinese Men, No Deed Means No Dates.  (Awesome picture, too.)  Yikes, even guys in the motherland have got it tough.  The article says:

…by the exacting standards of single Chinese women, it seems, Mr. Wang lacks that bankable attribute known as real property. Given that even a cramped, two-bedroom apartment on the dusty fringe of the capital sells for about $150,000, Mr. Wang’s $900-a-month salary means he may forever be condemned to the ranks of the renting.

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Asian Women and the Invisible Chain

Posted on May 26, 2010 by bigWOWO

Zhang Ziyi--does her personal racial preference really matter?

If you’re an Asian male, look at the picture above, along with the caption.  Think about your very first impression.  What goes through your mind?  Do you feel any kind of change in your thinking or emotion?  Now read further.

This post comes off of the Jamie Yeo thread, where in the midst of the IR debate, kobukson criticizes some Asian men by writing:

Another mistake: making Asian women the focal point of the IR discussion. Why do they do this? Why do they do that? Why do so many Asian girls hook up with dorky white guys? Blah Blah Blah. Screw it.

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Where the Black Man is King/FlashForward's IR pairing

Posted on February 9, 2010 by bigWOWO
Zoey and Demetri from FlashForward

Zoey and Demetri from FlashForward

Neutral Observer asked me to comment on Gabrielle Union and John Cho’s onscreen romance on FlashForward.  He writes:

Asian male bloggers have long compared their dating plight to that of black women, and have long said that maybe they need to expand their dating pool outside the asian female sphere.
Seems, at least on TV, we’re getting a dramatization of this “solution.”
Combine that with how this is a pushing back against the media’s systematic “de-sexualization” of the asian man’s image, and I’m doubly curious to get your thoughts on this.

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