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Et tu, Jarah?

(pic from here)

Jarah Mariano is the very first woman of Asian descent to become a Victoria’s Secret model. And like almost all of our Asian American female “firsts,” she’s dating a White guy.  We support our celebrities, but they don’t date us or any men of color.  It’s like there’s a Asian Female Celebrity Club (I’m adding this one to my lexicon, along with “community store”) that somehow decided that men of color would be excluded from their dating pool.  When we see that the AFCC members as a general rule don’t date us, it kills us a little bit.  We feel shortchanged, especially given how hard we work to promote Asian Americans trying to make a name for themselves.