Apr

8

2008

(4) Comments

Lena Chen’s Harvard Blog Entry/Discussion, on Asian Fetish

07:28AM by Alvin Lin

Lena is a (notorious) blogger whose prose has generated heated commentary on her school newspaper as well as in some major newspapers.  Her main viewpoint is she enjoys non-emotional sex, that there is a double standard for girls who do this compared to guys, and how she feels an empowered feminist doing this.  Her counterpart in a NY Times magazine was another feminist who went the other way, no sex whatsoever with her boyfriend.

Anyways, here is the link to the discussion about Asian fetish, where she seems to make good points but no one has the guts to point to mass media or societal conditioning to manufacture sexual attraction, in this case Asian fetish:
http://sexandtheivy.com/2007/11/11/economists-disprove-yellow-fever/#disqus_thread

[But don’t you ever ask yourself WHY you find Asians more attractive? I have no doubt that I like tall men (like 6’ 3” tall even though I’m 5’ 2") because I’ve been told that masculinity is attractive and that height represents masculinity. Or maybe there’s an evolutionary reason. But you definitely weren’t born thinking, “Whoo, Asians!” and unless I’m missing something, this is probably not evolutionarily to your benefit or anything.]

[Agreed. Our tastes are very often socialized. Especially since you weren’t born knowing what ‘Asian’ meant—race is a social distinction, not an innate biological fact, Verde.]

[Also, I think it’s particularly strange when some guys date exclusively Asian women and claim it’s really just accidental. Asian people make up 4% of the American population. That’s not a lot to choose from, even if you account for greater density in metropolitan areas and the Ivy League. For example, at Harvard, you just happened to date three people in a row from the same 10% of the student population? Like, really? Obviously, there’s some pretty intentional selection going on here.]

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