#stop fetishizing asians

[dark-nimbus]

My Opinions on Anime and Manga in Western Countries

CW: fetishization, oversexualization, racial stereotyping, as always lmk if I’m missing anything

Everytime I tell someone I'm not an avid fan of anime or manga, the usual response is shock and confusion, paired with "how?? But you're Asian!"

What hasn't occurred to them, I assume, is that those kinds of stereotypes are part of why I'm not a huge fan

Do I hate all anime and manga? No, not at all. In fact I do have a few books and shows that I enjoy, my favorite manga of all time being Arslan Senki (go check it out, the series is criminally underrated). However, I'm very picky about which ones I read and watch, and for very good reason. To be more specific, I'm not a fan of anime and manga as it's been generally received by Western countries

For the record: if you're from the Americas and like manga and anime, this is not me dogging on you. Everyone has the right to enjoy what they do, as long as they aren't harming anyone or their integrity

Now unfortunately, in my experience I've had to deal with the not harmless enjoyers more often than not

Take the first sentence of this post as an example. People always expect me to be largely enthusiastic about East Asian-originating media, despite knowing I've spent the vast majority of my life living in the middle of the US and was raised by people who are the furthest thing from Asian. I know next to nothing about my heritage or my culture and have grown up completely in American society, but even with this knowledge I'll still be met with shocked expressions when I say I've never watched whatever show or how anime isn't my favorite thing in the world. All because I look a certain way

That stereotyping attachment of race to media is just one of the many reasons I don't like anime or manga, and it unfortunately goes deeper than that

Japan already has an issue of oversexualizing women in their media, and you can see it in the skimpy outfits, big boobs, giant eyes, petite forms, and overall simping mannerisms they have towards male characters. This is by no means found in every show or book, but it's present in most. Even Arslan Senki, my favorite manga, favors putting Farangis, a priestess, in a sexualizing outfit over living up to the rest of the story's historical authenticity. With anime and manga growing more popular in the West, the impact of how women are portrayed is reflected in how people interact more and more

I can't tell you how many times I've had to hear about how people, from first dates to classmates to random strangers have fetishized Asian women because they wanted someone to live out their weird anime fantasies with. Hell, I have some stories of my own too. I've known Asian content creators who've been left creepy comments from viewers, some of which asking for them to talk in a high-pitched whiney "anime girl" voice and say a sexualized line using Japanese honorifics in a fetishizing manner. Asian cosplayers will constantly get demands to dress up in a maid outfit or cosplay certain anime characters for them to "simp" over

Even other cosplayers aren't safe from fetishizers. Other PoC cosplayers, black cosplayers especially, are consistently put on blast for cosplaying anime characters because those characters "aren't black." If it's not an Asian cosplayer, the creeps' fetishizing fantasies can't be lived up to, so they give black cosplayers shit instead. But gods forbid they do the same to white cosplayers, since being white is always the default to them apparently. How dare anyone try to give a white cosplayer shit for cosplaying a Japanese character when all anime characters are Japanese, that's unfair to them, right? But it's okay to have a double standard because the characters look white enough, right?

There was even a Japanese boxer from a few months ago that people latched onto, because apparently any East Asian guy with messy blond hair looks like Bakugo. MHA fangirls, many of which being minors, went crazy on him, making comments that are far from appropriate for that kind of interaction and fully reimagining this completely real human being as a fictional character for their own fetishizing purposes

If we're not stereotyped, we're being sexualized. The spreading influence of fetishizing Asian people only grows with the popularity of anime and manga in countries further west. It's been used to thirst, hit on, even threaten East Asian people, women especially. Our safety and comfort has been royally screwed by anime "simps" and it only continues to worsen, even more so for Asian Americans and content creators

One of the worst things about being Asian and growing up in America is how anime was the closest thing to connecting to my culture, and what did anime tell little me about being Asian? That my skin had to be pale, my eyes wide, I had to be short and curvy, and I had to sound ultra-feminine. Those were the values that the world expected out of me. Cassandra Cain was there to be my saving grace, thankfully, but the impression anime girls have on others will never be a positive or realistic one unless Japan re-evaluates its media as a whole and non-Asian viewers can find the maturity to not implement the same things on other people

#nerd shit #anime #anime / manga #misrepresentation #fetishization #stop fetishizing asians #asian representation #arslan senki #manga #rant post #mha #mha bakugou #cosplay #nerd #nerd talks #bipoc #stereotypes #anime and manga #star scrivening

[unforth]

Actually, I really wish Tumblr as a whole was less comfortable using feminizing language for gay men, especially gay East Asian men.

#unforth rambles #brought to you by the person i saw call chu wanning 'mo ran's mother' and the person who defended them #putting aside the question of accuracy re his role in mo ran's life #the words parent and father both exist yall #like idk but also wtf #see also girlboss and such being applied to gay men #idk i feel like im in the vast minority on this one #but my whole life ive seen gay men feminized in real life against their will #no matter how masc they were or wanted to be everything became fem #maybe im just to old to be with the times on why this is cute and funny abd okay #but given tumblr demographics and all #like shit like this is imo why so many women and afab nb people in fandom get accused of fetishizing #we older queers remember when doing this was considered disgusting homophobia actually #and imo it goes double or triple when they gay men in question are east asian #i really wish we could just fuckin stop #to be clear im not saying it IS fetishizing im saying i wish there was more awareness of the history of forced feminizing language #being used towars gay men in general and toward east asian men regardless of sexuality #for a lot of people i gotta think the knee jerk reaction to this kinda language being used is these context isnt teehee how cute #its ew who would say that #anyway i blocked op on the mo ran stuff but it still left a bad taste in my mouth

[crazycatsiren]

Reminder that the hanfu is one type of traditional Chinese clothing, not the traditional Chinese clothing.

There are 56 ethnic groups of us. Han happens to be the largest one. The rest of us still exist. We're here. Hello.

#witches of color #people of color #women of color #asian witch #chinese witch #stop asian fetishization

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Tw anti-asian racism and anti-chinese racism Asian fetishization and Chinese fetishization

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-fae

#racism #xenophobia #stop Asian hate #asian fetishization

[wisefoxluminary]

I find the video of Misha being in the impala hilarious but there's something about it that really icks me. In particular, the fact he's reading the Busty Asian Beauties mag as I find Asian fetishism in the show to be portrayed as extremely offensive. I've seen that these jokes have always been criticised on the show on twitter but it has always been a big problem on the show as it not only normalises this treatment but it makes Asian women come across as objects of desire when they are far from it.

This has caused the show to develop very racist undertones and it's just gross to see. I get Misha was trying to emulate one of Dean's character traits here but I find this part of Dean to be extremely off-putting. Fetishism as a whole in the show is very offensive and Dean's consumption on it just makes it worse. I love Dean. I really do but the fact he reads this and keeps it in the trunk of his car not only makes him out to be a sleezeball but a little bit sexist too. I love the show with all my heart but subjects like racism and sexism need to be addressed more carefully.

I hope that in the inevitable revival, that this gets dropped out of the show entirely as it has gotten to the point where fetishism jokes are getting frowned upon. I hate it and I hope the show learns its lesson from this.

#supernatural #dean winchester #asian fetishism is not okay #castiel #jensen ackles #misha collins #it just really icks me that this is still a thing on the show #it's very gross and racist #fetishism as whole just disgusts me #spn needs to stop with this #it has gotten to be a big part of Dean's character and it needs to be taken out #asian women aren't objects of desire they are people #let's not speak about this again #this needed to be addressed as i have seen a lot of criticism on online and I think the writers should listen #spn #fyi i don't blame misha at all for this #i just need this prop to be removed from the impala entierly and never talked about again

[cicadangel]

Happy AAPI month! I really wanted to talk about the Orientalism and East Asian fetishization that comes from young people who claim to be so anti-racist. If you're non-Asian and consume a lot of Asian media (or even if you don't) please take the time to read through this, and reflect on what ideas about East Asians you may have been digesting. Thank you.

#white anime/kpop fans esp!!! #aapi month #aapi #orientalism #ea baiting #racism #fetishization #stop asian hate #i hate the name for the movement but whatever

[insert-game]

crying. i have my icon on discord as haechan nct and 18-20 year old girls keep DMing me from the korean learning server i am in bc they think that i am haechan nct

#it’s so embarrassing. secondhand #stop doing this even if i was i woudlnt date you bc you’re giving asian fetishizer

[honeykaes]

I do not know how I got to fetishization tiktok but I want out immediately

#it makes me really uncomfortable seeing white women thirst over black men and brown men (and Asian men) when they say specific things #those things being related to their skin town #‘how manly and muscular they are’ #and stuff like that #it makes me super uncomfortable even when it comes to fandoms and stuff #I see that often with characters like Kaeya and Mammon #and I’m seeing that a lot in relation to black Panther #I beg you please stop the fetishization of POC men #—kaeyatic krambles

[catboydogma]

don’t get me wrong i am all for the little joys in life and transformative works as an outlet but some of u really and truly need to re-evaluate the importance of fanfiction in ur lives

#also adjacent to this is the mfs who act like writing fanfiction is some radical activism like its ‘feminist’ and ‘queer dominated’ when #as if fanfiction isn’t systemically steeped in white pairings and white cishet authors and more often than not hinges on racist and #homophobic tropes and stereotypes #as if the most popular medias w the most fanfiction are homophobic and white as hell #as if the most popular narratives and pairings fetishize real people (often asian men!) and queer relationships #like yes ofc i love reading and writing fic and i’m not saying it’s evil and bad but some of u have GOT to stop acting as if it’s #some inherently anti racist and equalizing medium when it’s Really Objectively Not #anywaysss i’m not interested in discourse so if u clown on this i’m blocking ❣️ #ok to rb #croidhe #but all that ^^ has got to b a whole other post.

[shoverse]

i'm feeling not very good :(

#THE WAY U CALL PEOPLE BABE/BESTIE UNIRONICALLY IS EMBARASSING #can u get me a panadol please :( #STOP ACTING LIKE UR A HOT 'MANIPULATIVE' BITCH BC UR NOT U MAKE ME PHISICALLY ILL #or a cup of soup :( #ITS CREEPY WHEN U FETISHIZE ASIAN PPL STOP THAT U CREEP #thank u luv :)

[mendako69]

TW : FETISHIZATION,ASIAN BAITING (?)

recently while chatting the topic about how sad it is that i am used to men not respecting my boundaries and having weird (usually sexual) assumptions about me popped up and tbh it IS a bit disheartening that i got used to it.

for context,we were discussing how whenever i would build up a following on social media,it usually ends up with being an audience of mostly cishet men. after i get one too many creepy dms or so i usually abandon the account,starting over again.

cishet men look at me as this like quirky manic pixie dream girl who's a irl anime girl or sum just because of how i dress + my interests. im literally just an asian hyperfemme nb who is permanently stuck in the early 2000s. i keep trying to post fashion content but it always ends up with the same result of a majority of cishet men following me instead of my desired audience of only the gals,the theys and the gays.

im not even pandering to them,yet they sniff me out anyway. honestly i personally blame those white people trying their absolute hardest to look like a kawaii desu anime girl irl.

they've been going at it,absolutely performing the fuck out of the stereotypes. they encourage degeneracy and strive off it. profit from it too. it reaffirms the toxic mentality and affects actual asian people like me. these white people dress like us and proceed to simultaneously infantalise and sexualise themselves which makes people think that people like me do indeed behave like this.

honestly its disgusting and upsetting,but luckily more and more people are clowning these fools instead of eating them up like they used to. hopefully they will awaken to see that underneath all that eyeliner and blush is simply a scammer who just wants your money most if not all the time lol

#fetishism #fetishisation #stop fetishizing asian people #asian baiting #asianbaiting

[bisexual-joseph-joestar]

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#u know how we were all talking about not perpetuating asian fetishization not too long ago… #like everyone who treated it like it wasnt serious i hope you all die #cause the shit people that fetishize asian women say make me wanna kill #like its nor my story to tell but like holy shit im so pissed #and everytime i think about how many people were telling us that we were overreacting…. #literally fuck you its so normalized and like the least you could do is apologize and stop contributing

[kof-xiii]

kinda sus its mostly white or nonasian ppl who keep complaining about the criticism on stray’s orientalism 🤨

#like ‘UGHH ITS A CUTE CAT GAME STOP CALLING IT RACIST ESS JAY DOUBLE US ARE SO ANNOYI’ chief imma hit u with a no u on that shut the fuck UP #i love stray sm but also for a game made by french developers and falling into the pitfall of cyberpunk fetishizing asians its HGGGGG #el.doc

[hecksupremechips]

I hate kpop stans after the time this white girl, who was one of my lifelong enemies, said she wanted eye surgery to look Korean cuz she looooved kpop

#the klock keeps ticking #it was. awful #itd take too long to explain my intense rivalry with her #but aghhhhhh i did not like this girl she was the worst #like ighhh thats so creepy to say you wanna look korean please stop #its just the prime example of ppl fetishizing asian ppl particularly koreans #and its just. stupid #its the stupidest thing ive ever heard #i hope this girl is having an awful day 👺

[aerois]

When I was a kid my mom would fuss at me for watching “those weird Japanese cartoons”

I introduced her to K-dramas and now she’s a goddamn weeaboo

#like STFU BITCH THERE IS NO ASIAN IN OUR ANCESTRY!! #stop fetishizing these poor people!!!!