Why do spammers and Egyptians want Chinese women?

[almostwitty]

As anyone who runs a blog knows, you tend to get a LOT of spam comments, which are luckily filtered out by most blogging systems. However, this particular one caught my eye today:

“the thing i like about asian women are those long flowing straight hair and those chinky eyes”

I really hope that’s not an excerpt from some poor chap’s dating profile, because I doubt he’s going to get much of a lookup. Imagine if your chat-up line was: “Ooooh I just love your chinky eyes”. That’d be pretty much the same as saying “Oooh I just love your nigger lips”.

(And yes, I thought about censoring the n-word from that sentence, but really, if I’m not going to censor the c-word, then I can’t then go and censor the n-word. Complicated racial politics that come into what was initially a simple blogpost about a spam comment. Oh dear.)

But then I wonder why Chinese women are so highly sought-after. Apparently, Egyptian men can now be added to the list of men around the world who want Chinese women. According to the article from Al Arabiya (which was also quoted in BBC News, but I can’t find the link now), Chinese women are prized for their “Obedience and loyalty”. I’ve got three sisters. None of them are particularly obedient, and I have the scars to prove it.

Mirrored from almost witty.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

... probably not the same person for both comments, though. Except maybe Tiger Woods.

[almostwitty]

Oh I dunno. Fans of Amerie, for instance?

(Although it's interesting to note that while there have been a fair few Korean/African-American pop artistes, none of them have played up their Korean-ness...)

[anivair.livejournal.com]

She is super hot. But I'm not sure that being black/korean is enough to ensure that the phrase "chinky eyes" turns you on. You have to be a little freaky, too.

Also, i don't know if the flavor of asian eyes matters much. It seems like this hypothetical person is not particularly racially sensitive (though they might be. What you say in the bedroom should never be used as a meter by which to judge you as a person, or I'm a really bad dude).

[almostwitty]

Of course, you know the real measure for whether people on the Internet genuinely find something attractive? See if there's a Tumblr feed for it.

And you are a bad boy. You must be punished.

Or something.