tfw dating is a bizarro dance of personal traumas and society expectations
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Gonna piggyback off pushing yesterday’s uncomfy-yet-thrillingly-so fictional story on modern dating with “Swipe White,” a Longread essay from Jennifer Chong Schneider on the complicated power dynamics involved in interracial dating. This one’s also pretty squirmy as a merciless self-interrogation on how the author relates to her parents (the buffet anecdote GUTTED us, you guys), and how her status as a biracial Asian-American often leads to either A) being fetishized by white guys, or B) being judged by Asian guys. In a post-Carrie Bradshaw media landscape, it’s hard to find such a personal essay about dating and relationships this unflinching and honest. And whether you personal identify with Jennifer or not matters less than her bigger point: that The Man / patriarchal society dictates our ideas of attraction more than we’d like to admit.
tfw dating is a bizarro dance of personal traumas and society expectations
tfw dating is a bizarro dance of personal…
tfw dating is a bizarro dance of personal traumas and society expectations
Gonna piggyback off pushing yesterday’s uncomfy-yet-thrillingly-so fictional story on modern dating with “Swipe White,” a Longread essay from Jennifer Chong Schneider on the complicated power dynamics involved in interracial dating. This one’s also pretty squirmy as a merciless self-interrogation on how the author relates to her parents (the buffet anecdote GUTTED us, you guys), and how her status as a biracial Asian-American often leads to either A) being fetishized by white guys, or B) being judged by Asian guys. In a post-Carrie Bradshaw media landscape, it’s hard to find such a personal essay about dating and relationships this unflinching and honest. And whether you personal identify with Jennifer or not matters less than her bigger point: that The Man / patriarchal society dictates our ideas of attraction more than we’d like to admit.