Not Your Yellow Fantasy by Giboom Park

Author:Giboom Park [Park, Giboom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781636765822
Google: 1vANzgEACAAJ
Publisher: New Degree Press
Published: 2020-12-07T05:26:17+00:00

WHITE FEVER

To understand how the model minority myth plays into fetishization, we need to first understand the perception of yellow fever in such communities. Or, should I say white fever?

According to thread r/TheRedPill on Reddit, a community of more than 14.3k individuals who support harshly misogynistic and problematic views, many users argue that yellow fever is a hoax used to cover the “real” problem: white fever.183 White fever is the idea that white men are the real victims of fetishization in society, with all other forms of minority fetishization and rejection being overdramatized by marginalized communities to cover up the “real” problem of white men being highly targeted and “preferred.”

For example, a user in the community once posted, “Asian women exclusively prefer the company of white men over four times more than the reverse. The data empirically shows that White Fever is far more prevalent than Yellow Fever, despite what the feminist-influenced media says... the life of Yellow Fever highlights the nature of the women to stigmatize men. In this case, it means exaggerating the reality, and then stigmatizing male preferences as some kind of creepy fetish.”—u/jagrmeister

Another user stated, “Also, girls go on quite a bit about yellow fever, but from my observation, there is very little of that going on. I have noticed way more of the opposite where Asian girls simply throw themselves at any and every white guy they see, and then complain about yellow fever.”—u/Knasgoth

Although it might initially seem quite ridiculous to understand, it is an argument brought up in most debates and controversial conversations regarding Asian fetishization. For example, in a PBS documentary called “Seeking Asian Female,” the film covered a short segment called “Do Asian Women Have White Fever?”184 In the documentary, many East Asian women revealed they think white men are better because they are simply “more confident and better looking.”185 Some Asian women in the documentary also revealed they believe Asian men are “too conservative,” in that they bring about too many responsibilities in participating in traditional gender roles.186

However, the documentary continued to explain how this phenomenon of “white fever” was an example of how “hypergamy,” or as Merriam-Webster defines it, “marriage into an equal or higher caste or social group,” is a prevalent phenomenon in society.187 Hypergamy, a term originally coined in the nineteenth-century Indian continent to translate Hindu law books, is used here to describe the tendency for white men to be societally preferred.188

As cisgender straight white men naturally hold societal dominance across race and genders, evident by their legacy of white sexual imperialism, white superiority, and heteronormative standards, hypergamy in a white-dominated society is defined by minorities preferring white men, the “superior” class in our racial and gendered social hierarchy. As misogynistic, white-supporting culture is the baseline of our society, it is inevitably encouraged for individuals to develop a strong preference for wanting white men, men who have historically been the “winners” of our society.

The model minority myth thus goes hand-in-hand with the concept of hypergamy, as it emphasizes

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