Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

Four years ago, for about a year, a Russian guy studying at Stanford found me on instant messaging about the article I wrote about attraction to Asian women. He was into Asian women, and, being at Stanford, was effectively swimming in a sea of 'em. One night, because he was bored at work, he created a fake personal ad claiming to be an Asian woman, to see what kind of responses he would get. He stopped counting at 50.

After looking at some search engine referals, it seems that white men are coming to my article trying to figure out why they like Asian women, or Asian women trying to figure out why their boyfriends are attracted to them. Clicking through, to see what kind of company I keep for phrases related to attraction to Asian, to see how bad it could be (I'm already keeping bad company on one search phrase; the image is of search results which are not safe for sex-hostile environments), I came across an Asian guy area who posted a personal ad on Craigslist pretending to be a twentysomething Asian woman in the San Francisco: “In all, we received 188 responses over a 24 hour period. Since the ad was posted to the San Francisco, California region, the pool of respondents was limited to that immediate area.” The site in question even has sample responses with, gulp, sample photos of respondents.

If that happened on a weekday, then the number sounds about right, and the graph, tending to be just before work ends or just after it, also looks about right. The guy runs a humour site, so the numbers may be inflated for comic effect, but it's only funny because it's true.

I just changed the Creative Commons license on on my article to Attribution as an experiment both in resentment and in accountability, since I have been up until now distancing myself from what I wrote. I made at least one friend because of it and made another despite it, so it's time to stand by it as an accurate reflection of how I felt at the time, which were the years 2000 and 2001.