Talk:Double Standard

Under "Non-Gender related / Other", we currently have:

Me Love You Long Time and Where Da White Women At?: Interracial relationships are always a touchy subject. These ones are no different. The former focuses on White man/Asian Woman, the latter on Black man/White woman. While the former seldom ever raises controversy, it's not the case at all for the latter for reasons we shall not dwell on. And works that focus on the inverted gender versions (ie Asian man/White woman and White man/Black woman) are astonishingly rare and far between. This tends to be quite prevalent in cultures with a lot of mixed ethnicity, but it can still be prevalent in cultures where only one ethnicity is more dominant, as that minority is seen as "different".

Is this a case of Small Reference Pools? I have in the past run across statements made by Americans that did not reflect the reality of the rest of the world; is this another one of those?

I've added {{verify}} and {{context}} tags where appropriate.

(I'm also wondering why this isn't listed under "Sexist against Women" (assuming it's a thing at all). The wording makes clear that this supposed double standard has a gender element.)

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> Interracial relationships are always a touchy subject.

In the US, very much so, that much I can confirm - I haven't traveled to the rest of the world, so grain of salt. :B That said, it's actually much more common place as a trope than you'd think - just that outside the US it's far more likely to be couched in cultural differences than it is ethnicity or race (I know, I know, put away the Venn Diagrams).

That said...

> The former focuses on White man/Asian Woman, the latter on Black man/White woman. (...) While the former seldom ever raises controversy--

That the trope exists probably means there's enough examples to put a lie to that alone, but even without that it strikes me as just... not true? Not sure if it's my own small reference pools, but there's a particular type of white guy who is Very Emphatically Weird about their "preference" for Asian (i.e. East Asian) women. I believe the (highly unfortunate) term for it is "yellow fever"?

> And works that focus on the inverted gender versions (ie Asian man/White woman and White man/Black woman) are astonishingly rare and far between.

I'm also inclined to disbelieve this about the latter of this sentence, though for... entirely different reasons.