Is the term "yellow fever" now a compliment?

[popculturepooka]

I've always viewed the term as having negative connotations but apparently it doesn't - at least to some people. I was talking with a friend and his acquaintance about the whole Tiger Woods thing and the acquaintance somehow turned the conversation into "Tiger Woods would not have had all those problems with the women 'ratting' on him if they had been Asian. If he liked only Asian women like I do he would've never gotten into trouble." I promptly told him "Wow, you have the worst Asian woman fetish/yellow fever I've ever seen in my life - it's probably yellow plague by now, right?" I was fully expecting a negative reaction (because I did say it in a very scathing voice too) but he just laughed and said, "Yeah! I totally have yellow fever! That's me!"

Now - what!? Has anybody else had any experience with that term becoming something to be proud of? Am I just catching up? Is this just an anomaly? Gah, I hope this isn't a trend....

[monkeygone2]

I wouldn't be surprised if some clueless asshole wore a t-shirt that said "I have yellow fever."
It's that whole 'how can it be racist if I LIKE them' mentality.

[eos]

Uh. You might want to ask your friend if he's ever been to tropical countries. Yellow fever (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yellow+fever) is a serious and contagious disease.

All joking aside though. NO, it is not a compliment.

[Dimeron]

"Tiger Woods would not have had all those problems with the women 'ratting' on him if they had been Asian. If he liked only Asian women like I do he would've never gotten into trouble."

Your friend sounds like a typical ignorant Asiaphile.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

I think the point is, your friend doesn't see any social repercussions to being labelled as having "yellow fever". so he doesn't care. not that it's a "compliment".

[popculturepooka]

It was actually my friend's friend (an acquaintance of mine) that said this . Must've typed it wrong or made it ambiguous. If I knew a friend of mine shared views like this we probably wouldn't be friends. Then again if my friend regularly hangs out with a guy like this and agrees with that guy I could foresee it being an issue.

It's probably as AliBabaIncorporated says; but the way he laughed about I could see him thinking it's cool to wear a shirt about having yellow fever (I'm hoping there already isn't one).

Truth is, after he said that I had no idea what to say because his reaction was totally unexpected. It just never occured to me that some people would not get the negative connotation of the term and just brush it off like that.

Geez....:confused:

[mankind]

Truth is, after he said that I had no idea what to say because his reaction was totally unexpected. It just never occured to me that some people would not get the negative connotation of the term and just brush it off like that.

Geez....:confused:

You'll be surprised by how many white men now actually twist the term 'yellow fever' to express their utter disregard for the feelings of others who would view persons with true Asian female fetishes as offensive - particularly other Asians.

Not all white men I have ever met are as blatantly disrespectful as this person you've encountered. Some in IR are more discreet in terms of the subject, as Americans in general are now much more consciously aware of the racism and sexism directed at Asian Americans compared to even a few years ago.

Others, well, yeah, they are that dense, and just don't see the negative label put on them (as asiaphiles and such...).

But yes, there are many white men, who clearly have a warped view of Asian American identity, and would be nothing more than proud to be labeled as an asiaphile.

Out of deliberate ignorance.

I'm not surprised by this at all. Its parallels with how some white southerners are actually proud of being called 'rednecks'.

[pikachupacabra]

I have a friend who just calls everyone in a white male asian female a Yoko John. Sometimes she just laughs also. She seems to get a kick out of making them uncomfortable

[BillBlythe]

I think it's because if you're a non-Asian male who has yellow fever, you're still in a position of power. The IR disparity is so embarrassing and emasculating for Asian males that in the presence of Asiaphiles, it's them who are ashamed and not the Asiaphiles.

So unlike pedophiles who can't just say 'yeah, I like touching little kiddies' and laugh it off, asiaphiles can get away with anything they want. At the end of the day they get the esteem of other males, the indifference of non-Asian women, and still have almost any Asian woman they say hello to.

[TB4000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwNfbZ24XI

You forgot this classic Harold and Kumar scene?

[sandra]

is this really a question?

[drydem]

Uh. You might want to ask your friend if he's ever been to tropical countries. Yellow fever (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yellow+fever) is a serious and contagious disease.

All joking aside though. NO, it is not a compliment.

The USA slang "Yellow Fever" is also the formal name of a
deadly tropical disease which is transmitted via blood
sucking mosquitos.

While context of what we say is the final decider of meaning
- to safe side when the audience is unknown or when one
is communicating in general - one should avoid using slang.

[j&j2]

Yeah, a lot of asiaphiles wear that badge proudly as a badge of "honor."

I think it's because if you're a non-Asian male who has yellow fever, you're still in a position of power. The IR disparity is so embarrassing and emasculating for Asian males that in the presence of Asiaphiles, it's them who are ashamed and not the Asiaphiles.

So unlike pedophiles who can't just say 'yeah, I like touching little kiddies' and laugh it off, asiaphiles can get away with anything they want. At the end of the day they get the esteem of other males, the indifference of non-Asian women, and still have almost any Asian woman they say hello to.

Think about it.

What makes asiaphiles (in particular, WM asiaphiles), who tend to inhabit the dork/geek segment of the male spectrum, so confident around AFs, when normally, they have confidence issues around WFs?

And it's not just around AFs in a vacuum; they generally have no problem hanging out at Asian hotspots where there are plenty of AMs.

If they had a fetish for black girls, you'd be darn sure they wouldn't be trying to pick up a BF at a place full of black guys.

[BLACK POWER]

Yeah I love getn my dck suked by slanted eye girls. They love suckn my big black dck! It's just a mater of time till the black man breeds out you flat face dog and cat eating slanted eye losers out of exsistence! LMAO! BLACK POWER!

[QUOTE=BLACK POWER;573645]Yeah I love getn my dck suked by slanted eye girls. They love suckn my big black dck! It's just a mater of time till the black man breeds out you flat face dog and cat eating slanted eye losers out of exsistence! LMAO! BLACK POWER! All u Asians Gona be long gone and the black man will tule the world!

[j&j2]

^ Actually, according to the statistics, black males are among the least desired by Asian females.

And actually lag significantly to WMs for WFs as well.