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

[voodoo-vibe.livejournal.com]

lol "Chinky eyes"

wtf

I doubt very much you do as you're told, you pest

XD

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

Tbh I think some of it is confirmation bias. At least one study (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_fetish#Columbia_study_on_racial_preferences_in_dating) has found that white men are no more likely to want to date Asian women than women from other backgrounds. If the two groups end up together more often, it appears to be a preference on the part of Asian women.

I've known quite a few Asian women, mostly Japanese, and not a one of them fitted the Demure And Loyal Fading Oriental Lotus Blossom schtick. In fact, most of them were pretty loud and crude. And really funny, for some reason.

Also - I can't speak for the entirety of east Asia but I do wonder if a bit of Japanese male paranoia fuels the whole white-dudes-banging-Asian-chicks thing.

IME, the racist stereotype of white men in Japan is broadly similar to the racist stereotype of black people in less-enlightened societies: big thuggish uncultured savages with huge penises who'll rape your daughter (note: I am not seeking to compare the racism white people experience with that black people experience, which would clearly be absurd).

[anivair.livejournal.com]

TO be fair, there are people who would find both phrases to be a big turn on.

[flyslip.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add except that I enjoy these semi-angsty Chinese entries greatly... (as someone formerly promised to a Eurasian boy of German/Aussie/Cantonese heritage. Hmmmmm, he was hotttt... but I digress.)