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“An individual may become aware that their sexual fantasies are racially charged or socially inappropriate. As a result, they might attempt to suppress or rationalize their desire by identifying as a supporter of racial equality or anti-racism. This cognitive dissonance leads to a justification of their fantasies as expressions of appreciation for diversity, rather than as symptoms of internalized racial bias.”

Desire Race Identity Human Behavior Stereotypes Social Psychology Cognitive Dissonance Racial Bias Fetishization Internalized Racism

Book:The Fetish of Welcome

Source: The Fetish of Welcome

“Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.”

Desirability Racial Identity Fetishization

Book:Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Source: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.”

Feminism Virginity Fetishization

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can be claimed that modernity should be equated with the possession of superior technology. But this response may itself reflect the modern fetishization of technology, which make it a magical solution for human problems.”

Modernity Plastic Surgery Fetish Fetishization Plastica

Book:Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

Source: Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

“There is nothing welcoming about the notion that a positive reception, from a group or an individual, is based more on what you are than who you are.”

Racism Fetishization

Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

“I noticed a trend with white communists. They do not value autonomy and liberation, they value control and dominance, just like their political counterparts. They do not oppose centralized power, they oppose centralized power that they do not have ownership of. It isn't about the liberation of marginalized classes, it's about placing power within the white "working class" and those in proximity to them.”

Politics Racism Communism Racist Colonialism White Privilege Communists Fetishization

Author:Sasha Scarr

“Most of my encounters with men, such as they were, ended as soon as I smelled them.”

Romcom Weird Stuff Fetishization

Author:Misha Bell