Asian Stereotypes | Asian American Poll

ASIAN STEREOTYPES
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:08:26 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which stereotype of Asian women do you find most offensive?
Quiet/Submissive | 22%
Sexually Available | 73%
Materialistic | 5%

Which stereotype of Asian men do you find most offensive?
Small Stature | 6%
Quiet/Submissive | 56%
Nerdy | 38%

Has American society's stereotyping of Asians decreased during the past 3 years?
Yes, there's less now. | 37%
No, it has stayed about the same | 43%
No, it has actually worsened. | 20%

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Bi Bye Shanghai,

You really should post that on a gay portal. But you could go to SF and ask, There is a large loud asian gay community there.
AC dropout Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 12:22:27 (PST)

To You

"If I had a son and he was gay, I would shoot myself! But, since it's true that most sons are just like their fathers you would be proud instead."

Don't think that i didn't use to think like this too. But the when my son told me, i realised, what kind of a father am i if i can only love my son under certain conditions. I only hope you never have children, because as yet, you are unable to offer your heart to them, because by what you said above, you are uncapable of loving your flesh and blood unconditionally.
Proud Straight Asian father of a GAM Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 13:48:27 (PST)

To Proud Straight Asian father of a GAM,

If I had a son and he was gay, I would shoot myself! But, since it's true that most sons are just like their fathers you would be proud instead.
To You Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 20:11:21 (PST)

Bi Bye Shanghai

Asian guys who only date other asian guys are called sticky rice queens. In a gay bar, they ask each other, "Are you sticky?"
Bi Bye Birdie Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 18:23:02 (PST)

:-/:
Regarding why many Asian males are stereotyped as gay, here's back on subject:

1) Personal Space
A lot of my Malay and Indonesian friends are used to standing a lot closer to people when talking than is usual over in the US. As a result, some girls kept getting hit on by guys who thought the girls were standing close cuz they were interesting, some big guys kept getting into fights cuz people thought they were trying to get up in their face, and some little guys kept getting hit on by homosexuals.

2) Deliberate distortion
A lot of homosexual organizations will try to distort ANY male-male physical contact to represent sexual tension, dominance/submission games, whatever (I'm sure we've all heard the theories about football, lockerroom towel fights, etc.) Well, when they get to Asia and notice it's culturally acceptable for guys to make physical contact when talking and closing hours at bars witness a lot of guys with their arms around each other's shoulders for support walking down the street, they try to convince everyone to make the jump from guys putting their hands on each other's backs while talking to guys getting in bed with each other and engaging in sexual acts, in order to prove that Westerners are homophobic and Asians are "accepting."

3) Media images in general
For the most part, Asian guys in the media are shorter, skinnier, and are never seen with an Asian girl.
T.H. Lien Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 21:28:25 (PST)

Hey straight father of GAM,

I don't really give two cow dongs about your opinions either. I asked for other people's opinions on why many Asian males are stereotyped as gay, not some dumb ass guy that can't even read bitching at me. When I said I disapprove homosexually I meant it was not right in my mind, the word disapprove does not mean hate, you need to to read a dictionary.

Since you automatically think disapprove means hate I guess you hate heterosexuals right? What makes you think people will care about your opinion? You think all Asians accept gay people? Why don't you go and tell one of you close friend's father his 16 year old son is gay, and see what he'll say, and do it 10 times to different fathers and see what the majority of the response would be.

People like me keep humanity hundreds of steps back? Look who's talking, you're the one that can't accept the fact that not the whole world is perfect, and never will be unless you destroy it and start over. Do you actually think I would go and hit a flaming homo on the head with a rock just because he's gay? Hell no, I will not act on my disapproval, I would share my opinion if needed, and if you don't like it you could A)ignore it, B)make yourself look more of an ass than me by doing what you just did, or C)go f*** yourself.
:-/ Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 20:21:12 (PST)

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