What do Rupert Murdoch, Nicholas Cage and Woody Allen have in common? If you’ve been following the celeb gossip, you’ll know the answer is an Asian trophy wife about half their age.
In her Marie Claire article, Ying Chu discusses the emergence of Asian women as the new trophy wives for rich, Western men much older than themselves. The dream of hot, pretty, submissive Asian beauties is still very much alive.
Asian Trophy Bride
However, if you catch yourself feeling a pang of envy as you read the article, think about what you are really looking for as you search through online dating sites for the Asian bride of your dreams. It is one thing to want to live a fantasy for a while, but what happens when the novelty wears off? Or worse still, once your Asian bride gets fed up of being treated like an exotic plaything?
We believe that the best online dating relationships are founded on honesty, love and respect for one another. Happiness is not something you get by distracting yourself with a pretty face or a toe massage from an exotic Geisha. It comes from the inner joy and fulfillment you feel when you share your life with a doting woman whom you care for and feel particularly connected to.
Of course, we cannot tell if Rupert, Nicholas and Woody actually enjoy that kind of relationship with their Asian brides or not. But if they do, it is worth more than all their wealth, fame and talent combined!
White Men and Asian Women – Asian Trophy Wives – Marie Claire:
The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women Rupert Murdoch has one. So do financiers Vivi Nevo and Bruce Wasserstein. Why are the West’s most powerful men coupling up with younger Asian women? By Ying Chu
Call it the Woody Allen Effect. When the venerable director scandalously left Mia Farrow for her adopted daughter, South Korean-born Soon-Yi Previn — 35 years his junior — he may as well have sent out a press release: Asian-girl fantasy trumps that of Hollywood royalty!
Not two years after they tied the knot, media baron Rupert Murdoch walked down the aisle with fresh-faced Wendi Deng — 17 days after finalizing his divorce from his second wife. Then, CBS head Leslie Moonves wed TV news anchor Julie Chen; Oscar winner Nicolas Cage married half-his-age third wife Alice Kim; billionaire George Soros coupled up with violinist Jennifer Chun; and producer Brian Grazer courted concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen. Add the nuptials of investment magnate Bruce Wasserstein to fourth wife Angela Chao and the pending vows between venture capitalist Vivi Nevo and Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang, and we’ve got a curious cultural ripple.
Were these tycoons consciously courting Asian babes? Do any of them qualify for the unnerving “yellow fever” or “rice king” moniker? It’s unsavory to think so. But after two or three failed attempts at domestic bliss with women of like background and age, these heavy hitters sought out something different. Something they had likely fetishized.
Enter the doll-faced Asian sylph on the arm of a silver-haired Western suit. (Hello, mail-order bride!) The excruciating colonial stereotypes — Asian women as submissive, domestic, hypersexual — are obviously nothing new. But decades after The World of Suzie Wong hit drive-ins and more than 20 years since David Bowie’s “China Girl” topped the music charts, why are we still indulging them?Because they’re omnipresent — and often entertaining. Even now, how many cinematic greats, literary best sellers, or even cell-phone ads (see Motorola’s latest) characterize Asian women as something other than geishas, ninjas, or dragon ladies? As the object of opening-line zingers like “Me love you long time” (the infamous line from Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket), I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at the cheeky blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, which ranks Asian girls at number 11 because “Asian women avoid key white women characteristics, such as having a midlife crisis, divorce, and hobbies that don’t involve taking care of the children.” Sure, I’m petite and was in fact born in Shanghai, but — to the shock of more than one guy I’ve gone out with — I’d rather down an icy beer and burger than nurse bubble tea and eat dumplings while massaging his back with my toes.
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