“Hot successful Asian girl” dating problems

OK, let me first start off by saying that I don’t think that I’m “hot” or necessarily “successful”. Honestly, the “girl” part is questionable at times [so why am I holding a clutch that barely fits my phone the whole night when I can take a normal bag or just have pockets and actually USE my hands…?]. I admit, however, that I am Asian because… well… I take pictures like this:

I got a smoothie. I OBVIOUSLY need to take a pouty lip picture now. 

However, even as an acceptable-looking, relatively-successful Asian questionable-girl, I face certain problems in the dating world which, I believe, are largely due to the annoying standards I now have as a “mature” woman as well as people’s perception [i.e. stereotyping] of who they think I am.

Against this background, I thought I would share with you a few recurring obstacles that I’ve encountered in my [unsuccessful] attempts at dating.

1. People think that because I’m a lawyer, I will only date other lawyers or investment bankers and doctors. OK, frankly, I prefer NOT to date these types of guys because since they are supposedly “successful” according to society [or rather their moms and all of their golf and church friends they brag to], they tend to be COMPLETE DOUCHEBAGS.

Believe it or not, I’m not all that fussed what the guy does for work and to prove my point, here’s a diagram of the different professional backgrounds of the guys I’ve met/dated:

As you can see, the only common running theme among these guys is that they HAVE A JOB.

So basically, my “job criteria” for guys can be summarised by the following chart:

Disclaimer: This chart probably doesn’t make much sense but this is why I’m a lawyer and am writing a disclaimer rather than trying to put something together that is actually useful.

2. Non-Asians won’t date me, because either I don’t look “Lucy Liu” or “Sandra Oh” enough or they are just straight up racist. [By the way, if you won’t date me because I don’t look “Sandra Oh” enough, then the problem isn’t that I don’t look like Sandra Oh. The problem is that you like MEN.]

For example, I was “matched” with a white guy on a dating site which means that we both MUTUALLY “liked” each other. I was not sure whether or not I should message him and thought, “What the hell. Why not?”

This is why not:

THEN WHY DID YOU LIKE ME, FOOL?!

3. I am too short to date. Of all the things that people could use as reasons for not dating me – my race, my profession, my interests, my face [because that would be a legitimate reason] – I never thought that my height would be one. And it’s not even like I’m THAT short – I’m 157cm or approx. 5’2”. It’s certainly not like I should have accompanied Frodo to the deep fiery hells of Mordor. But no, apparently this is a deal breaker for some guys as demonstrated below:

So I guess the wedding is off then…

So if you are one of these guys who won’t date short girls, lay off the Asian chicks and get the eff out of the Shire.