Us Bitter, Bitter Asian Men!

A while ago I wrote a post debunking pretty much everything racists have to say. Today I will touch on that again. I have been aware of Asian and American-Asian men’s woes in the United States, where a large chunk of Asian women go for Caucasian men, and not as many Caucasian women go for Asian men. For convenience, I will call these guys Bitter Asian Men. Essentially, their complaint is, “We’re decent, nice guys: but white women want nothing to do with Chinaman, and neither does Suzy Wong want anything to do with Chinaman.” Many of their problems also come from the fact that their Asian other-half left them for a Caucasian.

I see this sometimes in Hong Kong as well, although there is a much more diverse range of interracial dating in Brisbane, Australia as far as I have observed during my studies there. Many of these Asian men, I suspect, have internalized notions that Caucasian men are stealing our women. I don’t believe anything should get in the way of love. That said however, there are a lot of legitimate concerns put forward by these Bitter Asian Men.

I personally agree that the plight of this portion of American-Asian men is largely due to Western media stereotyping of Asian men as either oppressive misogynists, or creepy villains with sneaky and ulterior motives, or incompetent womanizers in a Western society, or asexual kung-fu freaks. Much of this began after WWII, during American contact with the Japanese and also the immigrant age when there was a large diaspora of different peoples, especially Asians, into the U.S. In the modern age, media bias, especially from Hollyweird, is a lot more powerful than most people think, and it can influence even Asian men and women to see in themselves a profound inferiority to the Caucasian race. And about the primarily American fantasy of an “easy, submissive, exotically sexual dynamite” Asian woman: trust me, my Yankee friends – our side of the fence is not much greener. Your belief in that stereotype says a lot more about you than it does about Asian women.

A lesser reason may be an Asian immigrant’s status compared to that of the stereotypical “rich white boy”. I don’t think this is as important, since there has always been a large group of hardworking, rich Asian men moving mountains in the West, and this number will only continue to grow. So the main problem, I believe, is Americans’ warped perception of Asian men as either genderless and psychotic martial artists or as small-dicked pussies with an inferiority complex to Almighty White Culture (in other interesting news, there was a recent study that showed Japanese men have a slightly longer erect penis than American men. As usual Negro men have the best… well, endowments, so to speak… yet enforcing some pretty retarded and sometimes negative stereotypes about black men). A complaint often thrown around is that Caucasian men enjoy “good” stereotypes, such as being rich, or better at lovemaking, while Asian men get unenviable stereotyping like being sneaky or cunning or socially inept. Asian women may internalize these opinions subconsciously.

Frankly, this is not always the case in different places. I am 100% ethnically Chinese: most of my Asian friends have Asian girlfriends, some have Caucasian other-halves. But it’s more of a balance in Brisbane. I’m sure the situation is a lot worse in America, the land of the stereotypes… I mean, the land of the free.

In the meantime, for those Bitter Asian Men in America and in some other parts of the world, live well. It is the best revenge that you can take on the superficial, and probably self-ignorant Asian women who left you for a Caucasian man: they will get a nasty shock when they realize that stereotypes don’t mean squat. I often see and hear of Asian women as unhappy, if not unhappier, in relationships with Caucasian men. Relationships are relationships, sex is sex. It’s either great or it isn’t. Asian women who think otherwise often find their hopes crashed, and dare I say it, sometimes people of all races deserve it for mindlessly buying into the falsehood that is stereotyping.

Still for the Bitter Asian Men reading this: if an Asian woman leaves you just for the reasons already stated, then she doesn’t deserve you. Remember just because a woman is from the Asian race doesn’t mean she has an immediate advantage over other members of the female gender. Biology determines gender. Culture, surroundings and self-discovery determines the individual.

And who knows, things may change. Such problems are an extremely recent phenomenon, almost like a fad or trend. And all trends/fads last less than a generation. The sages have always been right: people’s opinions and desires are as impermanent as the flowing of the river: one moment it’s before you; the next it’s rushing away past. One day we might get dealt a better hand in the bizarre world that is Western media. Take heart, fellow Asian-American brothers.

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