In British Columbia, we have a huge Chinese population — a fact that is both celebrated and execrated in equal measure. One example of the execration comes from a number of my “white” female friends who dislike the way “our men” (meaning white dudes) find the lithe, lace-and-label-covered Chinese girls so attractive. The theory is that white men like asian girls because they’re more docile and subservient, and because white guys can’t “handle” a white woman. Of course, this descriptor never applies to any of the kick-ass, strong, bold Chinese girls we know personally — they’re all different, just like I’m not like any vague description of an “American” that my yank-bashing friends conjur up for comedic or political reasons.
The insinuation that any one race of women is somehow “tougher” or “easier” for men than another is garbage for a number of reasons, but I think my Chinese co-worker put it best when she laughed herself silly and said, “That’s exactly what we say when we see an asian guy with a white girl. He can’t handle a real woman.”
She also explained that the suggestion that Chinese women were “easier to date” was ridiculous, given that Chinese women — not all, obviously, but the ones that she …