Earlier this year, I went on a date with a man who told me he had a thing for Asian women. We were sitting across from each other at a table in a fancy restaurant and he stood up to do a head-to-toe scan of me. I am sick of being fetishised because of racist stereotypes about "small and compliant" Asian women. Credit: Stocksy. I told myself to run. Here was yet another man with what is not-so-jokingly referred to as Yellow Fever: the lazy and discriminatory hyper-sexualisation and fetishisation of Asian women, primarily by white men, solely based on race.
Kellie Chauvin and a history of Asian women being judged for whom they marry
As more details around the death of George Floyd are revealed, other developments, including that the ex-officer charged with murder in the case was married to a Hmong American woman, have prompted discussion. It's also led to a spate of hateful online remarks in the Asian American community around interracial relationships. The ex-officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired the day after Floyd's death and now faces murder and manslaughter charges. The day after his arrest last month, his wife, Kellie, filed for divorce , citing "an irretrievable breakdown" in the marriage.
I'm An Asian Woman Engaged To A White Man And, Honestly, I'm Struggling With That
He hates it when I do this. So do I, really. We live in San Francisco, so this dip is as common as the hills.
Here are some of the more common ones I've heard:. Almost all of the women I talked with said that they love that their men enjoy life. Her Chinese friends told her that no Chinese guy would want to date her.
Mmmmm, luv'n imagining squirting my hot fountain al over her sweet tittys, her lovely little tummy and then pounding that pretty little vagina hard til we orgasm again together!