While I think this is an interesting story, as you read on, turns out it's also a promo for a dating app called 'Bumble'..

Dating often leaves Alyssa feeling degraded, and she’s fed up

As a Vietnamese-Australian woman, Alyssa Ho says the dating world can be particularly frustrating and often leaves her feeling “disgusting”.

“I’ve received a lot of comments along the lines of, ‘I’ve always wanted to try Asian’, or, ‘I have yellow fever’,” she says. And those are only the more mild remarks.



Ho, a 28-year-old event stylist and anti-racism campaigner, says she has been consistently fetishised over her race since her teens, based on the harmful stereotype that Asian women are quiet and submissive.

“It’s disheartening and degrading because you’re reduced to this identity that someone has crafted for you rather than being seen or valued for your whole self,” Ho says.

“It’s harder for people of colour to navigate dating … [People] view our bodies as literal and symbolic sites to construct their fantasies onto,” she says. “It makes you feel interchangeable and replaceable.”

Bumble has now become the first dating app to take a strong stance by announcing a ban on the behaviour, considering it a form of sexual harassment. Bumble’s country lead for Australia, Lucille McCart, says younger generations are leading the conversation on unwanted fetishisation, amid movements such as Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, trans allyship and body positivity.



Alyssa Ho says that some people mistakenly think fetishisation simply means having a “type”, or that it’s a compliment. “Compliments are meant to make people feel good. And this doesn’t feel good at all,” Ho says. “It’s fixating on my race as though it’s the only part of my identity that makes me worthy of being loved.”

Full story: https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-a ... 5809o.html

smh

Oh well, I guess she got well paid by Bumble for talking about feeling degraded. Or maybe she just got her subscription upgraded for talking about being degraded.

harmful stereotype that Asian women are quiet and submissive.

Harmful to any bumbling white fool who ascribes to the myth.

What's wrong with, "I've always wanted to try Asian"? It's good for her, makes her look more interesting (dare I say, "exotic") to the typical Bogan.

I understand when people use a dating site and get frustrated because nobody is interested in them (fat cows for example). But this?

How dare any non Asian man find her attractive, how dare they!
If she didn’t get any attention from non Asian men she’d be honking on about how they’re all racists.
These woke/feminist types have made it all but impossible to pay a woman a compliment, ask them out on a date, hell, they get pissed if you make eye contact without their written consent.
Now you have to browse through a fucking catalogue (excuse the pun) like tinder or the countless dating agencies to find a partner.
These people are like black holes, sucking all the joy out of life, I genuinely believe they are only happy when they’re complaining, what a miserable existence.
I’d hate to be a young man in these current times.

I am an Asian man. I prefer Asian women. I have a Khmer wife. She has a quiet strength - she knows who she is, what she can do, and is proud of it. No need to chest beat and yell all the time.

Does that make me racist, too?

And what about Asian women WANTING to date and marry non-Asian races? It’s trendy for some Khmer American women to have black baby daddies.

Does that make them racist, too?

I’m just confused.

I think you're confusing Clutchcargo's avatar?