Yeah, in that tv vs. real life thread, Jovius’s remarks made me wonder-
Why is it that Asian women are all portrayed as so beautiful and exotic, and it’s all the rage these days to have a fetish for them,
yet the media has done very little to portray Asian men in a such a way? I don’t know any non-Asian women who have fetish for Asian men.
It’s unfair to both the men and the women.
It’s not a very profane rant, but it really pisses me off, and I’m not even Asian.
Well, there are an awful lot of Asians. So they’ve got to be sexy to SOMEbody.
Probably a height thing. [generalization]A lot of women can’t seem to find a man sexy unless he’s tall (taller than her, anyway).[/generalization]. I personally have mellowed on that recently, but it used to be a big issue for me (that is, wanting a tall guy).
Having said that–Bruce Lee. The man was a god.
I also think John Lone (Last Emperor and a bunch of bad movies) is sexy.
And, I wouldn’t be surprised if some Food Channel geeks don’t think Ming Tsai or the host of Iron Chef is sexy.
I think Ming Tsai on the Food Network is very sexy. But I think it has less to do with him being Asian, and more to do with him having a very sexy voice.
I…um…have a bit of a cruch on Curtis from Big Brother, and he is asian…
YUM!
Because Hollywood panders sex to women and blood n’ guts to men. Exotic = sexy. Ergo, more hot Asian babes than boys.
Of course, you’re not hanging out with the Asian men I am - they are all sexy to me… 
But if we’re talking famous folk, let’s talk Garrett Wang, Daniel Dae Kim, Von Flores, Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Mark Dacascos, and many others I could come up with with more time. 
Esprix, a known rice queen
I think some of them are, and I’d assume that to Asian women most of them are. Bruce Lee was very attractive and sexy, so was his son, Brandon. The Asian actor, can’t remember his name right now, who plays opposite Jody Foster in “Anna and the King” is very sexy. Oh yeah and John Lone was attractive, I agree. People generally find what they are most comfortable with attractive. This usually means people of their own race or background. Not always true but in the case of Asian men, they have not been portrayed as attractive in our media, entertainment industry or culture. Social conditioning has a lot to do with it.
Needs2know
My husband, an Asian, is the hottest damned stud ever to grace the planet. And no, I’m not exaggerating. I swear to god, he’s that hot.
Somebody buy me a scanner and I’ll show you.
True- if I enter “Asian teen” into my search engine, I probably won’t find any boys…
However, I think there are plenty of sexy Asian men out there (if Esprix hasn’t gotten them all yet ).
Bruce Lee, of course
The host of Iron Chef
Jackie Chan- cute, funny, and can take a bullet
Who is that actor, the only thing I can remeber him in is “Nash Bridges” (oh no, bad tv outing…) young, cute, longish hair?
Dustin Nguyen
John Lone
mmmmmmmmmmmm…
Thank you Needs- how could I forget Chow Yun-Fat?
I have a thing for Jet Li myself.
Esprix, you think Ensign Harry Kim is a hottie?
Maybe there’s hope for him yet, since it appears no woman in the Delta Quadrant would touch him with a 10-foot self-sealing stem bolt. 
I know plenty of young white women with “a thing” for Asian men.
Granted, many of these women seem to know nothing about the Far East beyond what they have learned from watching anime, so the mind boggles at what they might expect if they ever got involved with real Asian men.
[disclaimer]I’m not gay…[/disclaimer] but if I was, Ming Tsai would do it for me. Hell, he almost does it for me anyway.
Bruce Lee . . . ouch. And Jason Scott Lee, and Brandon Lee . . . you get the idea.
OK, so you gals & gay guys think Asian guys deserve a better image in the media, and are quite desirable in real life. But from what I’ve heard, there’re few things as undesirable than how a woman is treated in real life by the Asian mother of her Asian guy. Any input?
Well, yes and no. My ex-boyfriend’s Chinese mother (a native of Canton, but widely traveled within China) thought I was wonderful, and used to yell at him for not proposing to me. She tried really hard to do nice stuff for me - we just sometimes had different definitions of “nice.” For example, she would come over and “clean up” our house, throwing away stuff I wanted to keep.
When I went to his wedding this past spring, she wanted to know why I didn’t have kids yet, and told me that my life must be too comfortable because I was getting fat.
As far as Hollywood goes, it’s because if we’re not martial artists (sexy), then we’re scientists (not sexy). And IRL, not nearly enough of us are martial artists.
As far as RL goes, I think part of it is that we’re all taught by our parents to be very polite (as a cultural thing, y’know?) and it’s difficult to be polite and hit on girls. Though that last part might just be me. Which, might I add, would really suck.
At the risk of sounding terribly post-modernist, I suspect that the reason that asian men are not held up as sex symbols the way that asian women are is that the rise of the asian woman as a fetish comes from a tradition of colonialist sexual fantasies. Colonialism was an institution of `the patriarchy’.
But that’s just one hypothesis.
They’re all sexy in their own way.
Paul Kariya’s cute, too.