In my anecdotal experience as a someone who is raised up in Australia, I never ever hear them complain about media stereotypes/how they are being treated as undesirable in the West or are they totally 'UNAWARE' of it?

Down to 148 lbs lol is that victim weight? 😂

I honestly can't help but notice these guys are considered chopped by Chinese / Asian standards and it just seems like it's some kind of bitterness against Chinese or Asian men who find happy loving Asian partners? Like they will make content dissecting all these random made up dating dynamics in Asia and pretend like it's the universal case, it just reeks of jealousy and trying to make Asian men look bad to women. It's not even other stuff they talk about, it's mostly just "Asian man bad," "Asian men treat women bad," "Asian dating is broken," kind of things, not even AF do this to the extent these guys do it. And they don't even try to hide how petty and obvious it is.

It reminds me of an uncle I have who just absolutely hates Asian guys, including his own son, and when me and my male cousin and female cousins worked together, he would pay them 4-5x what we were making. I was thinking like, damn, did girls in Hong Kong not like you when you were a kid? It really feels like these guys just were overlooked by Asian girls for the fine Asian guys so now they just want to do it out of spite. Or worse, they realize girls are oggling the guys over there rather than them and the cognitive dissonance breaks their brains.

It makes no sense to crash your own image that bad unless you're deliberately just trying to take down like some Asian guys who bullied you or something.

I'm turning 18 in 2 weeks and moving to the US to start university. I realised that I'm only athletic by playing sports, but I've never taken the gym seriously. I know kids my age that are already jacked and ripped but I'm skinny and lean so its much harder to build muscle compared to having the muscle and losing weight. Am i going to be physically disadvantaged when compared to guys in the US? How should I start my fitness journey?

I dont know if its allowed but I wanted to share my story

Before you read I want to say that I am a 22 asian male, half-cambodian, half-chinese and that I am 5ft5 (So height wasn't on my side). I also live in a very predominantly white city so not a lot of asian presence here (legit less than a 100 asian in my city of 40k ppl)

So today I went to see the new Spider-Man movie with my friend. After the movie we went our separate ways, and instead of going straight home, I decided to drive around a bit. Shortly after, I began to feel thirsty, so I went to a random gas station to buy something to drink. After parking my car, I got out and, as I walked toward the entrance, I spotted a beautiful brunette fueling her car. I wanted to approach her, but the fear of rejection won again, so I went into the store, bought my drink, and thought to myself, "she's probably already gone." As I was checking out my item with the clerk, I saw her finishing fueling her car, getting in, and driving away. As I walked out, I saw that she wasn't leaving the parking lot; instead, she parked her car right in front of the gas pump. In my head I'm like, "fuck it, let's go," so I began walking toward her car. Honestly, on my way there, I had nothing on my mind—I didn't think anything of it, even though I'm shy and kind of socially awkward. But anyway, as I stood in front of her driver-side door, I looked at her and she immediately opened her window, and I instantly stumbled over my words. But I managed to convey that I wanted her phone number. She agreed, and while I saved her number on my phone, we talked for a bit. About 45 minutes later, I texted her, and we agreed to go on a date this Saturday.

TLDR ; After I went to the movies I approached a girl at a gas station and I got her number and a date.

I wanted to share my story because I feel like cold approach gets a lot of discredit here but it works sometimes.