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Old 10-30-2009, 11:09 AM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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Originally Posted by rory00 View Post
mui comes off a bit arrogant but you come like a bigot yourself. why would you even start this thread.

i mean, only those who have poor "people skills", values or sense would make a topic about another race specificially. it's rather tasteless like a white person who starts a topic about blacks etc.

your op is obviously a facetious one because i have not heard or read that asians are so desirable even on these forums or read a lot of threads about asians as you falsely claimed. it seems you made that up as a ruse to probably mock asians to some extent.
If Asian women are considered desirable, why aren't there any who are top movie stars/actresses.....doesn't sound like a bigoted question to me. Didn't realize that topics related to Asians were off limits.

They are so many more Asian women in the porn film industry than the mainstream film industry. Why? There are many mainstream film roles for women which do not require a specific race to fill the role.

 
Old 10-30-2009, 01:14 PM
 
Location: USA
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It is interesting that in Japanese video games and anime (made for the Japanese market), the "ideal" babe almost always shows up as some blonde haired, blue eyed cacausoid-ish girl.
um...thats a fetish...not their idea of an "ideal" woman.


besides, its the same with American games showing hot asian women with incredible martial arts skills.
 
Old 10-30-2009, 01:18 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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um...thats a fetish...not their idea of an "ideal" woman.
Well, it seems to be what japanese men want to bone, that's all I'm trying to say.

Personally, I think Japanese women are beautiful. They hardly show signs of aging and are almost never fat. Caucasian women tend to get scary ugly with age.
 
Old 10-30-2009, 01:31 PM
 
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by Chango View Post
Well, it seems to be what japanese men want to bone, that's all I'm trying to say.

Personally, I think Japanese women are beautiful. They hardly show signs of aging and are almost never fat. Caucasian women tend to get scary ugly with age.
hell, I want to bone Beyonce....doesn't mean I want to wake up to her every morning.

Japanese men want to bone anything


asians age better....yes. Japanese women are usually chubby
 
Old 10-30-2009, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Whittier
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There's a difference between attraction and wide acceptance.

White people (the majority of this country) want to relate to white people. Why do British actors speak American english. Because they look like us (just more attractive) and are able to sound like us too.

Now if we were to look at ****-stars lets see the stats on that.
 
Old 10-30-2009, 03:10 PM
 
Location: Sunshine state
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Originally Posted by Sandpointian View Post
Hollywood is as racist as they come, save for slights against Jews or Israel. Sad but true. Looking back at TV shows in the 60s when I was a kid--the portrayals back then of Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Arabs, and Asians are really hard to watch now. They represent the worst of stereotypes.

Not much progress save for more skin and more money.

S.
I generally shy away from using the race card, but in this case, you are absolutely correct. I remember watching Charlie's Angels, the movie version with Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore, and Cameron Diaz. Guess who plays Lucy Liu's father in the movie? John Cleese!!
 
Old 10-30-2009, 05:54 PM
 
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Originally Posted by calipoppy View Post
If Asian women are considered desirable, why aren't there any who are top movie stars/actresses.....doesn't sound like a bigoted question to me. Didn't realize that topics related to Asians were off limits.

They are so many more Asian women in the porn film industry than the mainstream film industry. Why? There are many mainstream film roles for women which do not require a specific race to fill the role.
Your post just seems uninformed. i don't know where you come up with "considered desirable" and you still haven't answered why you perceive it as such and I don't know if asian women are more in the porn film industry. There are plenty of porn stars of all races so it's hard to take you seriously when you say asians are considered desirable when even in porn industry, they are not the most popular as white, latina and black women. White men and women are still the most famous and popular porn stars. Porn industry is not a mainstream audience anyways so it doesn't have anything to do with it and porn caters to different fetishes as their are interracial, latina, black, white, gay etc.

Can you provide stats that there are more asians in porn film industry as you seem to think?

When i did a search on the top 100 most popular pornstars, it was mostly all white or latina women. So again, your assumptions seem odd considering reality is different than what you assume others think.

Mainstream west does not accept asians for the most part as being "normal" as the rest because they look the most different and they don't fit into thier storylines for the most part. This is normal as there are not a lot of westerners in asian films and media either. Also, most asians don't enter entertainment fields.

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Old 10-30-2009, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Alexandria, VA
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Where is the statistic about Asian women being considered "so" desirable? And by whom? I personally know very few people whom are attracted to the average Asian woman.
 
Old 10-31-2009, 02:53 AM
 
Location: 30-40°N 90-100°W
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There is or was a fetishism about Asian women. Although usually this amounted to "Beautiful Asian woman comes into a man's life and then dies or disappears somehow." Look up Anna May Wong. She once stated she "died a thousand deaths" as a bit of a mockery of how her characters got killed off when they got too close to the white guy. (White were forbidden to marry Asians in California at that time)

Sometimes this was because other cultures had different views of sex than the West. Although Westerners sometimes exaggerated how sexually liberal everything was in Asia. In the West "actress" meant something like "prostitute" at one time so if they ended up in Japan or wherever and saw troupes of female entertainers as relatively common it may have seemed like that meant hookers were everywhere. In the case of the US we also had a series of wars involving East Asia from 1941 to 1973 so many American soldiers did have East Asian lovers. Possibly that fit into the fantasy of "East Asian woman enters my life and then leaves forever" as I think many to most of these relationships did not survive the war.
 
Old 10-31-2009, 05:16 PM
 
Location: La lune et les étoiles
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Originally Posted by Thomas R. View Post
There is or was a fetishism about Asian women. Although usually this amounted to "Beautiful Asian woman comes into a man's life and then dies or disappears somehow." Look up Anna May Wong. She once stated she "died a thousand deaths" as a bit of a mockery of how her characters got killed off when they got too close to the white guy. (White were forbidden to marry Asians in California at that time)
It just seems that even in today's world Asian women are not given progressive film roles. To me this is just odd especially since there has been a lot of progress in terms of how non-Whites are portrayed on film.

For example, there is a character on the new Melrose Place who is a med school student (smart Asian kid stereotype) but has to turn to a life of prostitution (geisha girl stereotype) because she is low on funds. Each new episode has her exchanging sex for money with men (White, Black, Arab, so far) Out of all the characters on the program she is the only Asian, yet her character is the only one that is unapologetically stereotypical in nature.
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