Sexual racism or sexual preference?
Recently, a thread named 'confessions' was closed because a member of the community made a weird post about their obsessive
yellow fever.
Originally Posted by Melon
honestly
i furiously jack off to asian women every chance i get
specifically koreans and asians man
althought them thai girls fine as FUCK too
indonesian aswell
most asian countries got hot ass girls
nay, all asian girls.
all asian girls fine as fuck
dont cap
Personally, I thought this post was pretty weird and out of place. The community disagreed and went along with it. The thread was closed.
Another member of the community said they were glad the thread got closed on the 'fun in off-topic' thread, as it displayed sexual racism and objectification. We are here to discuss the former.
A discussion ensued around sexual racism on the 'fun in off-topic' thread. I don't think that is a proper place to discuss it, so I made this thread.
What follows are a couple of relevant posts from that thread.
Originally Posted by
Maya
Look up "sexual racism" and "objectification." If people want to talk about their struggles with sexual racism, I'm all for it. That thread was almost glorifying it by the end... I'm thankful it was closed. Granted... the offending posts could've just been deleted and a mod could've made a comment about why they were bad.
I was going to post on that thread about how harmful sexual racism is and you know a bunch of following replies would've been shitty as all hell.
If blatant sexual racism and objectification is just "fun banter" to you, I question your knowledge on the subject.
Originally Posted by
Numbers
Are people obligated to like every race/ethnicity equally? I don't get how "sexual racism" is a struggle. People have preferences and that's okay too.
Originally Posted by
SlyBash
numbers you'd be right in a vacuum but the problem is that it's a systemic thing. people are taught that there is a specific ideal of beauty (which rn includes light colored skin), which informs their taste as they grow into adults. the problem isnt so much that people have preferences, but that peoples' preferences are curated by media conglomerates, advertising agencies, and so on. institutional racism is tied in with this because for quite some time black people were explicitly seen to be less desirable than white people in western culture, and the effects of this are still seen in media (less representation etc). and a material effect of this is that people of color tend to have a much harder time finding someone to accept them as they are. I'd wager that if cultural standards of beauty for women in the western world were overhauled, people would grow to not have these preferences so much in the first place.
of course, i don't like to jump into identity politics and argue any sort of reformist perspective of the media industry (i think it should be replaced entirely with something else), but this is generally what I believe to be the argument for the legitimacy of sexual racism's existence
anyway sorry i know this is offtopic.
I can't put my finger on why, but I feel this post missed the mark.
Originally Posted by
Ele
So, to sum things up, because of the media, melon wants to fuck asians badly and that makes him a sexual racist.
Sounds to me like there's some kind of kink-shaming sex-negativity going on here, and that disgusts me.
Originally Posted by
SlyBash
way to read my post in bad faith, man.
and, i mean, yeah, you probly shouldnt fetishize asian people to the point of calling it a "kink", that's just dehumanizing
Originally Posted by
Karstnator
I personally like natural born girls
-is this sexual racism?
Trans people are not a race last time I checked.
Originally Posted by
RAAAGE
it's not a fetish it's a preference. its not dehumanizing
its not anyone's fault if they like skinny light skin girls with sizable breasts and wide hips, sexual preference has always played a role in evolution, this isn't even worth discussing it is natural
everyone has problems and i dont support pandering to the salty losers of the biological lottery, dont get me wrong, i give everyone their due respect but you cant argue with human nature. there is no point trying to make being human a fucking hate crime rofl
Personally, I don't think having a preference
towards one race is necessarily problematic, as long as it doesn't turn into an obsession. I get all hot and heavy when I see pink nipples and labia, which informs my preference towards white women. But I have been known to jack to other races as well. Having a preference
against one race can only be rooted in prejudice, in my eyes. As a straight man, I cannot fathom the thought of developing erectile dysfunction once I see a woman of another race.
I think Melon's post was obsessive in nature, which can be problematic. I'm going to try to put into words why, but I fear I won't do a good job.
Yellow fever perpetuates a stereotype for asian women that they are objects of lust. This makes it harder to progress in society because they have to deal with being treated as one(, moreso than other women). I think obsessive individuals are also more likely to commit sexual assualt on their preferred race.
This concludes my two cents, now it's your turn.
Last edited by fudgiebalz; Aug 21, 2020 at 11:20 AM.