{"id":456,"date":"2001-07-25T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-25T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=456"},"modified":"2001-07-25T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-25T13:03:00","slug":"square_peground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/square_peground\/","title":{"rendered":"square peg\/round hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i have a friend with an asian fetish; although, he hates it when i call it that.  he&#8217;d rather name it &#8212; if it has to be named at all &#8212; an asian <i>preference<\/i>.  bullshit.  it&#8217;s a fetish.  he lusts after asian chicks.  he&#8217;s a rice king; although, he hates that name, too.  he calls himself a rice <i>prince<\/i>.  it&#8217;s all about the perception of impropriety, you see.<br \/>\nwe were talking last night about all these beautiful asian girls he&#8217;s meeting and lusting after lately.  i got quiet after a while.  i didn&#8217;t have much to add to the conversation.  i don&#8217;t see anything special about asian women. just as i don&#8217;t see anything special about italian men.  &#8220;people are people,&#8221; to quote depeche mode.<br \/>\ngetting to the root of it, it made me feel inadequate for not being asian.  for being a hulking, caucasian girl with brown hair and round eyes and white skin.  for not being a sylph.  for not being mysterious and demure.  i said to him at one point, &#8220;us poor caucasian girls just can&#8217;t compete.&#8221;  he didn&#8217;t reply.  he knew i was right.<br \/>\ni&#8217;d like to think i&#8217;m pretty open-minded about the people i lust after.  yeah, i have a thing for accents; but, i&#8217;ll take almost any accent.  i&#8217;ve had crushes on just about every kind of person i&#8217;ve been exposed to: white, black, asian, indian (east and native), european, boy, girl, old, young.  i&#8217;m an equal-opportunity luster.<br \/>\nif i&#8217;m completely honest with myself, part of my discomfort with his <i>preference<\/i> is that i&#8217;ll never be one of the preferred.  he may love me and value my friendship, but i&#8217;ll never been that &#8220;cute asian girl&#8221; he&#8217;s always talking about.  it hurts.  then again, it usually does when you reveal truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have a friend with an asian fetish; although, he hates it when i call it that. he&#8217;d rather name it &#8212; if it has to be named at all &#8212; an asian preference. bullshit. it&#8217;s a fetish. he lusts after asian chicks. he&#8217;s a rice king; although, he hates that name, too. he calls <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/square_peground\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}