Speaking as a middle aged cishet white dude who only knows some basic HTML:
Honestly same
I help fill the quota of transfems with thinkpads at tech parties :3
Min 20% transwomen and 20% furries. Overlap acceptable.
Im not personally a furry, I am a catgirl tho :3
Furry LiteTM
Im a furry but replace the fursuit with catears, and replace everything non cat with cats, also :3
Close enough
As a white guy in tech, yes.
The first time I heard about yellow fever I was really confused what a commonly Central American illness had to do with dating.
Partly because I’ve literally never seen a yellow Asian.
I have seen a yellow Hispanic though. They had jaundice.
I once saw a nerdy Taiwanese (Chinese) SWE and his smoking hot white girl wife and I gave him a fist bump. Bro is doing the impossible.
The Bruce Lee. He probably talks about water a lot.
He’s just passing up on all those white chicks.
Is it yellow fever if you also have various other variants that attract you to multiple different races?
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Hot girls be hot, regardless of skin tone. I assume the same is true for men.
This is the basis of the American melting pot! It needs to be heard!
If I find the race based phenotypes of multiple races very arousing ( ex, Asian women because of their monolids, black women because of their melanin, white women for their paleness and freckles, etc etc) does it still count as yellow fever, because it comes accompanied by other attractions based on race too, instead of only lusting after that one race.
Finding a specific aspect of someone’s appearance attractive, and fetishization, are not the same. A normal person could find melanin attractive, and be fine. When they are eschewing any interest in the person other than them having dark skin, you are fetishizing them. The person in this comment is pointing out how this fictional guy only dates asian women, and brings her around to be shown, rather than to enjoy the experience with in a deep way.
So yellow fever (and other terms) only counts if it’s fetishisation and not attraction?
Correct, it is a pejorative used in two ways, either people racist against asians claiming anyone who isn’t asian dating an asian, has yellow fever, or that person in fetishizing them. Just being attracted to a person is not the same thing.
this applies to other ethnic groups, hair colors, and many other things.
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“Straight people be wild”
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You can’t not fit in stereotypes, it’s the Law! And if one type doesn’t do it for you, you’re clearly a -phobe or racist. Obviously.
you’re clearly a -phobe or racist
Sure, you want to believe it’s bullshit. But then you get to Stanford and find out “The Bell Curve” is required reading in your social circle.
If you have dated exclusively Asian women, but profess to feel attraction to other races, then it’s de facto yellow fever.
Just started watching Reservation Dogs and now I’m thinking of this episode-
Such a good show. That episode made me so uncomfortable ugh
Ok do me do me…my turn!
Me: Mexican dude
The last 6 women I’ve dated:
- Mexican
- Japanese
- White
- Cambodian
- Chinese
- Vietnamese (married to her)
Sounds like you’ve been done several times already, calm down and take a breather friend.
I’m going to say the common thread is that they’re all women, so let me go out on a limb here
he pretends his yellow fever is actually an interest in japanese urbanism
Okay, but I would argue it can be both.
Excuse me, I’ll have you know that my first wife was the most basic white woman in the history of white women.
I don’t think it’s “yellow fever.” I think there are power dynamics at play that both sides are happy to participate in.
Yikes…
What’s yikes? Too real for most of Lemmy apparently — mostly in white dude, Asian girl relationships.
Why don’t you explain it in plain English. Right now you are skirting around the edges of a point. Most people are assuming that point is something yikesey, but I for one want to hear you explain what it actually is.
this is a masterclass in polite racism
