Michael McCullough on the pervasiveness of White male/Asian female couples: “No doubt the rice king does exist -- just about any single Asian female in this city will attest to that -- but I'm not sure he's the ubiquitous social phenomenon he's made out to be. I say this in part because I had never dated an Asian woman before I met Karen and in conversation with other male halves of biracial couples, I discovered I was not alone.”
The article, typical of articles trying to explain why there are so many White male/Asian female couples, analyzes the phenomenon a little too much. I speak with authority on the issue of over-analysis, especailly on this particular subject. Almost four years ago I wrote a short article on attraction to Asian women, which I am republishing under a Creative Commons licence.
(If McCullough's article has expired, I have an archived copy. You can email me if you want to read it.)
My article is heavy with disclaimers, since I don't necessarily feel the way I once did. In fact, setting it to a Creative Commons licence is a cynical—and hopefully successful—attempt to distance myself from it. An important piece of information you may want to consider when reading it is that I hadn't dated an Asian woman before writing it, nor have I since. (I didn't have any illusions that, as a result of writing, that I would suddenly be fending off offers.) As a result of it I did make a Asian female friend or two, since after their initial curiosity—something along the lines of "why would anybody write something like that? Oh look there's his IM screenname, maybe I'll ask him myself!"—they found out that there was more to me than some silly racial preference in the opposite sex. I made just about as many enemies too, but it was pretty easy to forget about them, since they were in my face for a day or two before realizing that they had better things to do with their lives than worry about what I might have to say.
