'Seeking Asian Female' Film Exposes Men With 'Yellow Fever'

A politically correct article by ABCNews.com that assumes that men seeking Asian women have are showing "power, dominance and white privilege" and want a "submissive" wife. Gee, could there be other reasons? Excerpt:

'All her life Debbie Lum, a second-generation Chinese-American filmmaker, has been hounded by men with "yellow fever" -- usually, but not always, white men with a fetish for Asian women.
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In her first feature-length film, "Seeking Asian Female," which airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET on PBS's "Independent Lens," Lum gets drawn into the complicated relationship of a 60-year-old white man and his 30-year-old mail-order bride.
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"He was my favorite character -- he had no verbal filter," said Lum. "He was basically an open book and would say the things I suspected men were thinking but had the self-consciousness not to share. He gave me incredible insight into what men were thinking. About Asian women, but it was more than that, I was drawn to his complexity as a character.
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Men who have fetishes for Asian women send an "underlying message about power, dominance and white privilege," said Saedi.'

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Even if all that's being asserted is correct, I gotta ask: Why is no one making a documentary abt what foreign women may be trying to do by seeking out white American men as husbands? What, no one's questioning THEIR motivations?

I've known more than one white American man who's been actively-pursued by non-US-born Asian women. This documentary thinks only one dancer is tangoing. Methinks it takes two. Why is only one dancer's footwork being watched by the judges?

The answer's obvious: Political correctness/feminism demands there be a victim and a victimizer. No room for any other model/interpretation (nor room for, dare I say it, sincere feelings!) The victim must perforce be the female/non-white/both, while the victimizer must be male/white/both.

There are no other options.

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He's probably just looking for a nice person, who will treat him with love and respect. I guess that's suspect these days if you're a man.

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I don't know why I don't just throw myself under a bus, some days it seems I must be a rapist/pervert/bully/abuser just waiting to burst out in public.

But in regards to this particular subject, I actually had a very deep conversation with a small group of men about this just a few weeks back. Quick back story: I'm originally from England (where Asian women were at that time relatively rare), came to Sydney Australia years ago (where Asian women were and are relatively common). I never dated an Asian woman, but I was attracted to them, for reasons that are easy to quantify; they are often quite attractive, they can be slim and good looking, and they present as being kind, thoughtful and caring. For example on an average night out with the guys you would see many Australian women being loud, getting massively drunk, leering at and shouting at guys, acting in sexually aggressive ways, out-bloking the blokes. At the same time, you would see a quieter, more demure group of Asian women, having fun without acting like a drunk bunch of male footballers and not acting like strippers on a high.

So years later this conversation comes along, it started when a divorced guy mentioned that he was dating an Asian woman from Singapore. The comments were along the lines of 'you lucky dog' from the others, obviously with sexual overtones. And that's part of it, I do think that some Asian women embody many of the visual and behavioural elements that men find attractive.

But interestingly, he almost immediately said that the main reason he was loving it was the comparison between her and his wife. Where his wife had been abusive and angry and bitter, she was kind. And his wife had been unfaithful to him, whereas his feeling was that her cultural background made that quite unlikely.

So I'm not convinced we're all a bunch of slathering perverts, I think we like what we like, and I think we are attracted to women who present as being kinder, more caring, more faithful partners.

And, final comment of course, let's see the documentary on white women who court black men, the perverts. What? That would be wrong? What about white women who court rich men? Or muscular guys? Still wrong..??!

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