Nothing has surprised me more since starting this blog than the amount of email I get from readers. I never really expected much feedback and I’m always happy when I get it. I have noticed somewhat of a disturbing trend in my emails. Here is a recent one.
While I absolutely love getting feedback from the people who enjoy my work, I’m going to have to ask for comments like these to stop. Poor grammar and spelling aside this email is part of a disturbing trend I see. You see this particular reader is complaining because my stories aren’t stereotypical enough.
Those of you that follow me on twitter will be laughing even harder at the fact that he single Mr.Chien from my A Day at the Office Series as “not asian”, because Mr.Chien is an actual human being and quite Asian. I wonder why is it that this reader felt that Mr.Chien’s persona in the A Day in the Office stories were some how “White” and not “Asian” ? How can these things be defined?
Would Mr.Chien be a more believable Asian if instead of a software engineer and businessman he was a rice farmer? Instead of getting it on with his flexible intern should he be playing the violin? Does he seem less Asian because his village isn’t on fire?When its all boiled down these types of comments are really saying, that the race of the characters in any story should be dictated by how exotic, alien or problematic they are.
Why should “regular” interracial erotica have to be just Black and White? These comments are really more telling of the readers issues with Asian and Asian Americans than my actual writing. All this person is saying is “I’m uncomfortable with a depiction of Asian men as masculine and desirable.”
There is nothing innately White about a sexually desirable man. I also refuse to write the shortsighted racist erotica that compelled me to start writing in the first place. My personal problem with a lot of the interracial erotica being published in print and the web is the instance that a person’s race will dictate the majority of their thoughts and actions. This isn’t Mass Effect and the real world does not work that way. I think its just a lazy bigoted way to write and I refuse.
While I’m talking about mind boggling comments I just wanted to share a very special comment I received on Literotica for .
That’s right this dude claims a college educated stripper is just too much for him to accept. This is a perfect example of a bullshit comment and the exact opposite of constructive criticism. You see this guy has a preconceived notion that all exotic dancers are uneducated dullards, instead of reading the story and going “oh this character is an individual, and perhaps I’ve had my head up my ass,” he says there’s something wrong with the story.
Kind of in the same vein as the first email, someone complaining that my writing takes them out of their comfort zone of stereotyping people. Please stop doing this people. This is going to be the first and last time I address emails and comments like these on BlasianBytch.com. Those of you that have emailed me know that I respond to every email I receive, but I’m not going to acknowledge or respond to these anymore.
I want to learn and grow as a writer, comments like these are not conducive to that so I feel justified in ignoring them. I encourage anyone esle with questions , or concerns even complaints to email me. Just please before you write that comment or email think if you are complaining about my writing or are you angry your biases aren’t being validated by my posts or stories.
Muaaah,
‘Jaila
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