This Instagram account flips the script on Asian fetishisation
Warning: this short article contains some topics which can be NSFW so keep reading at yours danger.
It’s no key that online dating sites may be hideous.
The problems that can result from dating apps are well-documented from bad date horror stories to catfish accounts. But things tend to be markedly even worse for minorities, as popular Instagram account @thefleshlightchronicles demonstrates in gory information.
Talking recently to Broadly, founder Lillian (her surname was held hidden for privacy reasons) revealed that guy would slip into her DMs with charming one-liners such as for example: “I’ll consume your pussy like shrimp fried rice. ”
She started to notice a pattern of fetishisation, the one which depressingly matched her very own genuine experiences:
We started to realise why these interactions on Tinder harmonized with my lived connection with being A asian girl.
I realised this platform could be used by me to speak about those experiences – and help others find validation through them, too.
There’s an absurd twist to the account, which takes gross quotes such as “i wish to take over your little, Asian body” and superimposes them over pictures of Lillian by by herself. (more…)