So an online journalist poses the question.
Do you find Asian men sexy?
Three American blond white women answer, no.
A conversation is triggered citing media portrayal of Asian men as nerdy or foreign being to blame.
A touch of the sinister
However, I think this problem runs deeper.
Posing a question based on whether a certain race is sexy is a little racist.
It presumes an answer that discards men based on their race.
Thus in asking the question you are perpetuating a reality where it is considered normal to discard a man on something as shallow as skin colour.
Media beige
Agreed it probably does not help that the media landscape favours white men for their heroes, but if the journalists holding it to account do not challenge their subject on their prejudices then little progress is made.
Although in asking the question they have at least illustrated just how far we still need to go.
One race is not more or less sexy, you are just closing down your options to a lot of truly beautiful people.
Come on, if when he was young Bruce Lee propositioned you are you really telling me you would turn down this fit and driven young man.
I am not saying white men are any less sexy than their Asian counterparts, but I am saying they are really no more.
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