Some things people might be wondering as they peruse comics.

1) What is “yellow fever”?

this is a huge question and I cannot possibly answer all of it and the implications in one ask, so I highly suggest you google it and see what other Asian women have to say about it.

Yellow fever is being attracted to an Asian looking person because you have a specific, stereotypical set of expectations that you think they will fulfill. I do not care if you think it’s as shallow as being attracted to a brunette or a blonde, you have been indoctrinated and have subtly absorbed all that the western media has fed you about Asian women and what they are and are not. It is no longer a matter of “type.” The white man/Asian woman (or any woman of color, really) pairing has its roots in colonialism, which is part of the reason why it is so incredibly problematic—Western patriarchy forcing its values and beliefs into countries that already have their own established social systems. It is not just about armies and conquering and whatnot, but also about changing value systems through the social sphere. Traditionally, as with many cultures, lot of Asian women were home-bound and not allowed to work. However, this did not mean that their lives were dull or boring or unfulfilling. Women had their own way of operating within a system designed to oppress them. However, a lot of these Western men both believed in their own superiority and didn’t really give a fuck about the cultures of the countries they were invading and thought that they were “liberating” these “oppressed” women by marrying them and taking them away from their own patriarchy, which is problematic in and of itself. 

So all that contributes to yellow fever—the belief that somehow your’e cultured enough to want to date outside your race, but that the person is still socially beneath you because their culture is simply different from your own. Because Asian women are sex kittens. Because they won’t talk back, or they’ll cook you food and take care of you because “that is the way it is in the old country!” 

well, it’s not. it’s fetishistic and degrading as all fuck and if you think you have yellow fever you should probably reevaluate your existing social beliefs about both race and gender (yellow fever: one of the ways in which racism intertwines with sexism!) and really think about why you like the person. REALLY think about it. Check your white cis het male privilege. Listen to the slam poetry of “I was born with two tongues” group, esp “Not Your Fetish.” 

and above all do not equate race with hair color or any other kind of physical feature that can easily be changed.

2) “Well, this is what I think of objectification/exoticization!”

As Asian women, we have a right to try to protect ourselves from men who would otherwise prey on us and take advantage of us. Period, end of story. It is unfortunate that sometimes the only way of protecting ourselves is to be extra wary of the people who approach us, but that isn’t our fault, and if you understand where we’re coming from then you won’t blame us or shame us. You’d try harder to understand us instead of pushing this kind of “BUT I’M NOT DOING IT, IT’S NOT REALLY ME”. That makes you look like a racial fetishist apologist and I am not having any of that here.

I’m not here to educate you. I’m here to entertain people. That’s why I draw. I’m not here to have an “intellectual argument” with you about objectification and you are not going to change my mind about objectification because IT IS JUST. PLAIN. WRONG. Don’t expect that by coming here I’m going to give you some kind of unbiased answer. Go read what other writers have to say about racial fetishization because I have said all I have to say on the matter: IT’S WRONG.

3) My feelings on Avatar: The Last Airbender (show, not travesty of a movie)

4) “Nice guys”

5) “Is X Y Z fetishizing/this seemed fetishizing, is it?”

Yes. No if it’s about “Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra” the show