hat ten times moresingle white women than single white men reported that their most recent sexpartner was black.Few whites comprehend the growing impact on minorities of these interracialhusband-wife disparities. One reason is that the effect on whites has beenbalanced. Although white women hunting for husbands, for example, suffermore competition from Asian women, they also enjoy increased access to blackmen. Further, the weight of numbers dilutes the effect on whites. In 1990,1.46 million Asian women were married, compared to only 1.26 million Asianmen. This net drain of 0.20 million white husbands into marriages to Asianwomen is too small to be noticed by the 75 million white women, except inLos Angeles and a few other cities with large Asian populations and highrates of inter- marriage. Yet, this 0.20 million shortage of Asian wivesleaves a high propor- tion of frustrated Asian bachelors in its wake.Black women's resentment of intermarriage is now a staple of daytime talkshows, hit movies like Waiting to Exhale, and magazine articles. Blacknovelist Bebe Moore Campbell described her and her tablemates' reactionsupon seeing a black actor enter a restaurant with a blonde: "In unison, wemoaned, we groaned, we rolled our eyes heavenward . . . Then we all shookour heads as we lamented for the 10,000th time the perfidy of black men, andcursed trespassing white women who dared to 'take our men.'" Like most guys,though, Asian men are reticent about admitting any frustrations in themating game. But anger over intermarriage is visible on Internet on-linediscussion groups for young Asians. The men, featuring aneven-greater-than-normal-for-the-Internet concentration of cranky bachelors,accuse the women of racism for dating white guys. For example, "This[dating] disparity is a manifestation of a silent conspiracy by the racistwhite society and self-hating Asian [nasty word for "women"] to effect thegenocide of Asian Americans." The women retort t...
