Asian Female, White Male

However, one could also weaponize thetheoryofhermeneuticalinjustice toaccuseAsian/Americanwomenof lacking racial consciousness and agency when dating. In particular, the Asian Female White Male (AFWM)phenomenongarnersmuch attention—andcritique.

AFWM describes the phenomenon of Asian women exclusively or commonly dating white men. As if navigatingamalegazethatexoticizes and fetishizes you is not enough, Asian women also face scrutiny for “betraying” their Asian identity and dating outside their race. When the award-winning Chinese-American novelist,CelesteNg,marriedawhite male,manyinsistedshehatedAsian menandherself.InaRedditthread on Jenn Fang, an Asian-American activist who married a Black man, one Redditor critiqued her “Asian female privilege," while another claimed"sheprobablydatedavillage of White guys before she dated the blackguytobe‘edgy.’”

Another Redditor remarked: “Anything but an Asian man right?”

In fact, most of the backlash Asian women face for their dating preferencescomesfromAsianmen. When Asian women date outside their race, Asian men often assert something along the lines of “you should be dating me, not these others.” Where does this sense of entitlement espoused by Asian men comefrom?

Theanswer:conventional stereotypessurroundingmasculinity.

While Asian women often face hypersexualization,Asianmensuffer from the opposite stereotype of beingdesexualizedbecauseoftheir