Changing the Rules - Asian Stereotypes
Taken from a CHYOA thread (with two minor edits).
Anna pulled her jet-black hair back into a ponytail and adjusted her glasses. She knew that the ponytail and the glasses, combined with her Asian ancestry, made her look like a tech-geek cliche, but she didn’t mind. Since she was a computer engineer, she’d pretty much accepted that she was living the cliche.
Her phone made a strange beep. She’d never heard that particular notification sound before, which was odd. She’d explored everything her phone could do within an hour of buying it.
“What’s this?” thought Anna as she looked over the app. “It’s got a note attached. ‘What the hel is ths, got it from stupid bfriend.' Well, that doesn’t narrow it down, every girl I know thinks her boyfriend is an idiot.”
Anna scrolled through the app, but there didn’t appear to be any instructions. She tried to read through all the rules to see if there was a pattern, but there were thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
Then Anna saw one rule that stuck out. She couldn’t help editing it.
The perception that Asian women are submissive and docile, but also sexually promiscuous, is a stereotype.
Anna sighed. Yeah, she was somewhat introverted and shy, but she was by no means submissive or docile. She had made it this far in life on her own strength. She had always had a troubled dating life for the same reasons. Weird nerdy guys with 'yellow fever’ would always try to treat her like a plaything.
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