i was down for most of the day... mostly because i got rejected by emi. i still managed to head into the city to meet up with a noona for dinner. we ate at Chevy's one of my new favorite restaurants (the chips are light and fresh, the salsa is good, free soda refills and it's mexican food!). she's so thoughtful, she got me a souvenier from the US Open (these cool white tennis balls) and from her trip to London (an edition of Arena a british men's fashion magazine with a cool photoshoot and article of my beloved kristin kreuk). i'm thankful for her... she managed to cheer me up and keep my hopes High. we met up with another friend (her roommate) and grabbed some fried ice cream from Go restaurant in st. mark's place and chilled at her place. it was a pleasant evening. both of these sisters always encourage me.



the thing that sucks about the day (other than the emi slap in the face), is the 2 minutes i spent at the union square barnes & noble. i needed to pee, so i went up to the bathroom. the two urinals were occupied, so i went into one of the stalls. something about one of the grafittis caught my eye and i made the "mistake" of actually reading it...

"Almighty God wants white men to date asian girls"

everything about it is so wrong. it sucks that there exist guys out there who think they're (literally) God's gift to women-- or worse yet-- they think asian women are God's gift to them! it sucks that they would pull out a pen and write it down. it sucks that they call themselves men while their fetishes are girls. it sucks that they would even bring God into the picture. it just sucks.



don't get me wrong. i have nothing against interracial dating... but sometimes love is not "blind". sometimes it's our eyes that, sadly, do all the loving. sometimes guys are just superficial like that... and they buy into the idea that asian women are exotic and/or hyper-sexual and/or submissive, etc. sometimes guys aren't even aware of their race-based fetishism. i'm not trying to generalize and say every white guy that's dating asian is racist, but i'm saying that it happens... waaay more than it should. and if you can't see at least that, you're naive.