The Conversation
- Asian Racism and the “Asian of Reason” (19)
- Max: hmmm…I have a hard time believing “Asian Dude” is in fact Asian.
- Asian Dude: So…whats the problem here? AOR has the right to an opinion right? Seems to me like a mountain is...
- Nottyboy: It’s kind of like anyone who gets called out–”Can’t you guys take a joke?” Look at those celebrities who...
- Max: hmmm…I have a hard time believing “Asian Dude” is in fact Asian.
- The Happy Post (21)
- RiceCakeRabbit: I voted! (And hopefully I don’t get spam mails because I was too lazy to create a new e-mail...
- N: @RiceCakeRabbit I voted! (And hopefully I don’t get spam mails because I was too lazy to create a new e-mail...
- RiceCakeRabbit: There is an essence of imprinting when it comes to the IR pairing disparity – and this is why the...
- B.J. Penn disappoints (5)
- jaehwan: Notty, I don’t know if you’ve seen this Bellator submission, but it’s pretty sick:...
- jaehwan: I agree. A point that someone made on one of the forums is that Edgar is really a featherweight, and he did...
- Nottyboy: I don’t want to write off Edgar yet. He has some really good takedowns and great speed. Still,...
- “This is a Bust” by Ed Lin (Review) (2)
- Podcast: URB4N talks about Interracial Relationships (86)
- etain: Yes, I meant that there were 24,000 more marriages involving Asian women than Asian men in 2008. And I still...
- MojoRider: jstele wrote: “Just date who you want. Who cares if there are more Asian women dating outside their...
- uRB4N: Oh, Jesus. Use some deductive reasoning for crying out loud. He obviously means 24,000 more Asian women than...
- Frank Chin debates Yunte Huang on the topic of Charlie Chan (8)
- Larry: Somebody give Yunte Huang his “Oriental 4 Life” card. Huang’s claim that Charlie Chan is an...
- neaato: goddamn! thank you bigwowo!!!!!! glad you shared w/ us this linkage. here was my comment to the commentators:...
- anna123: Great interview! Frank Chin demonstrates his supremacy once again! Anger? Reframe that as passion....
- Building Subcultures and Accepting Emotions (282)
- King: “How was that King? Enough f-bombs for you? You know certain topics just get me fired up.” Haaa!!!...
- AF/AM couple: N, No, I meant either AFs or AMs I come into contact with (so AF/AM), not an AF/WM couple, but I can...
- N: @AF/AM couple I assume you meant AF/WM in the first line? I got slightly confused reading it. But I do encounter...
- Western Schools in South Korea (10)
- dan: Not sure how I feel about this. If the entire city is more modern, clean, and well funded than any other...
- john: This is a bad idea. It will be like those Indonesian who don’t know Indonesia becuase their parent sent...
- mama nabi: This is interesting – my mom pitched this exact same idea (I remember helping her come up with a...
- A Great Wall (3)
- Dinobot: I heard from somewhere that the construction of Zheng He’s fleet deforested large parts of China,...
- Ngo Bao Chau, First Vietnamese Fields Medal Winner (4)
- Why Am I Doing This? (Review) (14)
- jaehwan: us_Asians, I had a few words to say about David Henry Hwang in the comment section of this post:...
- MojoRider: @us asians, indeed, Eva Cassidy is the best all around female vocalist I’ve ever heard. I...
- us asians: Just some additional thoughts + @Alpha Asian says: I agree with your comment that the “just felt right”...
- White on Rice (Review) (17)
- angrybritishchinese: @simon tsui The audience i saw it with were also rolling in the aisles and shitting bricks. but...
- Simon Tsui: I am disappointed in your review. I watched White on Rice in the movie theatre during the premiere in...
- Tiger Woods and His White Women (22)
- jaehwan: And then it was over. http://www.golf.com/golf/tours _news/article/0,28136,2012613, 00.html?hpt=T2 Sheesh,...
- Chinese economy surpasses Japan (6)
- Asian Racism and the “Asian of Reason” (19)
Tag Archives: Gender
A tree is a tree is a tree, even when it's not
Looks like CNN decided to do a story on how nice guys finish last. The author talks about (what should be) common knowledge about how women don’t like guys who are too nice. She interviews a “dating coach” (aka PUA), … Continue reading
The Male Brain
Continuing Happy Week: From the front page of CNN.com, Louann Brizendine, whom I’ve quoted before, writes: Perhaps the biggest difference between the male and female brain is that men have a sexual pursuit area that is 2.5 times larger than … Continue reading
Mr. Hyphen tomorrow, the quest for masculinity
As some of you know, Mr. Hyphen is tomorrow. Check it out if you’re in Oakland. It’s a male pageant, something which I wrote about before. I’m not crazy about the idea of male pageants for Asian American men. It’s … Continue reading
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Male Pageants
Okay, okay, okay. You all know how obsessive I am when it comes to thought issues, so I wanted to post one last thing before showing you all the Miss Asian Oregon Pageant. Several times over the past month, people … Continue reading
Teaching a Man or Woman to Fish
In an earlier post, I posed the question to the ladies about whether or not they would ever entertain dating a guy who aspired to be a house husband. I asked if it would be acceptable for a guy to … Continue reading
Guess What I've Been Up To
I spent yesterday and today at home with the baby. Mama WOWO went back to work, and so there was some lag time between her return and the arrival of family help. So I became the Stay-At-Home dad. According to … Continue reading
Gender Divide Podcast
Picture from KATU. We got about six inches of snow today. It’s very cold. We did our big gender divide podcast last night. Participants were the Antisocial Ladder, the Minority Militant, the Alpha-Asian, Winnovative, Larry, Jason, urB4N, and me. You … Continue reading
The Post-PUA Era of the Asian American Blogosphere
(Image from Yoga Iyengar de Marseille) But what has ego done to procreation, to the harmonious union of complementary opposites? It has twisted it into an act of egoic self-affirmation. Lust is self-validation through consumption. Control through the exercise of … Continue reading
Chivalry – Dead, Alive or Lost Spirit?
[Jaehwan's Note: This is another piece from W about gender relations. It doesn't necessarily reflect my views, but it's a good piece to get some dialogue going on the relationships between Asian American men and Asian American women. I hope … Continue reading
Humanity
I wanted to post this story, which I found on Dooce.com. It’s a very touching story about an old woman’s taxi ride. Here’s part of the story: For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me … Continue reading
