"it's not that Asian women are different, it's that white guys can have some WEIRD fetishes."

Unless you believe in cultural uniformity, Asians and Estonians are indeed different.

The female equivalent of porn can be found broadcast on national television: the cooking channel, the home improvement/househunting channel, the travel channel to name a few. If women had a comparable libidinous response to naked pictures of the opposite sex, images would be sold. Instead, women spend money on magazines featuring pictures of other women. If only a channel for the world's most extravagent weddings existed ...

Ian, you're a puritan. You don't know beans about female libido. Why don't you ask someone, or if you can't, try reading a romance novel? You might get the shock of your life!

If only a channel for the world's most extravagent weddings existed ...

It does (at least a show) "Platinum Wedding",

I've read a couple popular romance novels out of curiosity. Most of the words are spent describing the thread count of the sheets. Occasionally, there is a paragraph describing the insertion of the "man root." These novels cater to the female obsession with overidealized love.

My point still stands. Women spend very little money on images or videos of the male body and much money on publications with images of the female body. I noticed the rack of magazines at the checkout counter at RiteAid today. Woman's World. Woman's Day. Glamour. Cosmopolitan. Every one of these magazines featured a nearly full body picture of a woman on the cover. Evidently, the male body is generally uninteresting not only to men, but also to women.

kgswiger, in all the movies you mentioned do you recall any type of actual sexuality being seen between those characters. I have seen The One and some of the The Medallion and The Tuxedo and can say there is not even a bit of sexual tension between the characters. As for Romeo Must Die, the two leads never even kissed. It was like some brother/sister relationship. And I do not remember much of The Replacement Killers, but I do not recall anything even slightly sexual with those characters.

Then there is the art house film, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, in which the white lead rescues the half Asian girl (who was obviously not Asian) from her evil Asian boyfriend. And the boyfriend was over the top bad. Any sensible guy would not want to go out with a girl that would stay with a guy like that in the first place, because it would sure say a lot about her.

Well stated, Shania: Hollywood still has a long ways to go to portray Asians and Asian-romance more realistically.

BTW: I have a special dislike for the Travolta "Get Shorty" sequel, the name escapes me. It had Steven Tyler showing what a terrible actor he was in it. But most offensive, was the way they treated the Asian female singers---as entirely, obliviously souless and stupid joke/ho's to be smugly laughed at by our black and white protagonists. You know what the reality is? Well, some stereotypes are not all wrong. If you have one parent who is Asian and the other one is white, I would suggest if you are now applying to get into say Stanford for U.C. Berkeley, write "caucasian" to the race question. Give you a better chance of getting in, you see.