there are, of course, tons of shitty, sexist, rapey dudes in college. that said, college, and particularly the humanities, are probably the one place where a lot of people are, for the first time, exposed to the critical foundations that produce feminism. so of the like 10 white dudes at a party, hearing that one cute one say something good about Simone de Beauvoir is 1) more statistically likely given numbers and 2) probably going to make you like them more if you're a cishet AAPI woman over the dudes talking about sports or vidya james

But this is still layered in assumptions. I grew up and still live in a big Korean American enclave and the vast majority of my friends wouldn't even know who Simone de Beauvoir is, much less read her work. This includes my friends in interracial relationships. In fact, I know a lot more girls who'd enjoy talking about The Voice or the last concert they've been to with a cute guy than third wave feminism. There's absolutely no way Feminism with a capital F would be a factor.

Besides which, I doubt a white dude is more likely to mention feminist writer than any other race of men. I was a Creative Writing major and I didn't notice any of my male peers being particularly gripped by feminism just because they were exposed to it.

are these assumptions, at their foundational level, correct? if they were to dig deeper and understand socioeconomics and racial privileges, would these women be less inclined or, at least, more open to dating men of different races without needing to codify some sort of standard? sure. would they be better off adopting a, imo, much healthier and open-minded attitude about race and dating? yes. but critical thinking and the dating world don't often go together, unfortunately, and that's a trait endemic to everyone, not just Asian women that most of the asian bros in these threads are having persecution complexes over. sorry to the people who are so pathetic that they can't see their own forms of chauvinism and normative behaviors without decrying it in others

Okay, cool. We're in agreement there, but I have to agree with most of the other people here when I say that the way you worded your statements sound like apologia.

Personally, I thought the topic was interesting because of the premise behind assimilation, which I used to think was fine and dandy until I got to college. There my professors introduced me to black, Chicano, and Native American literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Reservation Blues were the first books that made me think... Damn. The type of assimilation white people keep talking about is basically telling me to be white.

And it's something I constantly think about in terms of relationships, too. If I marry a white girl and we have kids, what will my kids identify as? What if they also end up marrying white people, at which point my grandkids will be cloaked in white privilege?

After a lifetime of growing up in racist towns and getting into fistfights with white kids who called me chink and gook, I have no idea how I'd feel about that.

so yeah. I don't think the ideas put forth by the women in this study are right but I do see where they're coming from and it isn't completely irrational. which is basically all I'm saying. I don't think I'm a white supremacist but I guess some people have made very convincing cases otherwise in this thread

Well I think you get pegged as an apologist because you didn't make it clear that you don't condone women who think like that, but I see what you're saying.