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2mo ago

As a PoC, I help fill a quota at tech parties

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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

Heaven forbid someone be attracted to a member of a different race.
- That's okay, but when it's quite clearly fetishization, it's shallow and dehumanizing.
  
  How does one tell the difference between someone who's legitimately more attracted versus someone fetishizing them?
- Another Lemmy thread where people get weirdly defensive...

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.

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.

Is it yellow fever if you also have various other variants that attract you to multiple different races?
- I dont even understand what this means
  
  Hot girls be hot, regardless of skin tone. I assume the same is true for men.
  
  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.
  
  I am still confused but i am asexual so ill just chalk it up to that and move on and be curious about something else
- 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.

my yellow fever is actually an interest in more attractive 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.
- this is a masterclass in polite racism

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