If you’re a white guy that likes dating Asian women, you don't gotta do that anymore
Featuring John Hedrick
Summary
A half-Asian straphanger delivers a spicy take: white guys have dated enough Asian women, and it's time to stop. He compares these couples to lantern flies "crawling up the trees" and "nesting in the East Village." His credentials? A Chinese mom and white dad who got together before internet porn made it weird. Kareem presses him on the Oxford study about Asian women's dating preferences and whether Asian women are complicit in the pattern. The passenger insists there needs to be a power dynamic, height difference, something. Then the punchline drops. His girlfriend? White. He claims it's all a joke, but also maintains the pattern is real and exhausting. The conversation spirals through interracial dating politics, fetishization, and self-awareness with the kind of chaotic energy that makes you unsure whether to laugh or cringe.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? If you're a white guy that likes dating Asian women, that's enough. That's you're good. You don't got to do that anymore.
100% agree. I'm done.
Are you Asian? I'm half Asian.
So, you can speak on this? Yeah. Oh, I can speak a lot on it. You know, my mom's Chinese, my dad's white, so it's like, but hey, hey, hey, hey, everyone relax.
No, you're a culprit. No, no, no, no. This relationship, my parents' relationship existed before internet porn existed and fetishes and everything. Okay, so it's normal. I see relationships now where it's like white guy, Asian girl, white guy, Asian girl. They're like lantern flies. They're crawling up the trees. They're everywhere. They're nesting in the East Village in San Francisco. I've had enough.
Are the Asian women also complicit? No. If you're an Asian woman and you don't want to date a white guy, that's fine. Do whatever you want.
If you want to. If you want to, but you better make sure that white guy's shorter than you. There better be a goddamn power dynamic. I hate that people go online and they're like, "Oh, Oxford study. Oxford study." It doesn't exist.
What's the Oxford study? This study where they like asked like a bunch of Asian women who they're attracted to and most of the time they said white men rather than Asian men, but then they debunked it because Asian women don't have that kind of preference.
No, I think they do. Whatever. If they do, fine.
I don't think it should happen. I want to be clear.
Interracial dating in general? No, no. Interracial dating can happen. I'm all for interracial dating.
What about interracial marriage? Interracial marriage. [laughter] Totally down for that.
You're okay with that? I'm totally down for it, but I'm like, mix it up a little bit.
Do you have a girlfriend? I have a girlfriend. Yes.
What is she? She's white. [laughter] But she's awesome. So, does that count for something?
I don't give a—date whoever you want. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. This is all a joke.
You're just kidding? [laughter] There's too many white guys dating Asian women. We've had enough of it. Although, they, they do make such cute babies.
Oh, thanks. That's very kind. [laughter] My mom would love to hear that.