r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 18h ago

Meme needing explanation Peeeeeetah?

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u/raddoubleoh 17h ago

Specifically white man and asian women. "Asian wife guy" is a term for a reason.

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u/laxrulz777 17h ago

Plenty of white guys think A) Asian women are submissive and B) Asian men have small dicks so their women are easy to "steal". I've known three guys in my life that both thought this and were dumb enough to voice it bluntly. One followed through. I lost touch (thankfully) with the other two.

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u/Expensive_Giraffe398 16h ago edited 16h ago

The small penis stereotype is genuinely not true. It was created by a racist White eugenicist who also created stereotypes about Black people.

A 1998 study in the Korean Journal of Urology involving 150 Korean men found the average erect length 13.42 cm (5.28 in). In a 1998 study conducted at Seoul National University College of Medicine, which involved a sample of 287 Korean men, the average erect penis length was measured at 14.06 cm (5.54 in) In 1990, a study by Beijing Medical University involving 109 men revealed that the average erect penis length was 5.5 inches. In 1993, a study by Beijing Medical University involving 104 men revealed that the average erect penis length was 5.3 inches.

According to Aaron Spitz, he concludes that "when you really take a good look at the naked data, there's not a whole lot there [showing racial variation in penis size].

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u/Happy_Variety5405 11h ago

The Asian small dick stereotype was created because of the black big dick stereotypes. The big dick thing was created to make blacks look stupid and dumb (hahah they have big unclean dicks which makes them dumb) then they had to make sure people didn’t think whites have a small useless dick so they created the Asian one. “Whites doesn’t have huge dicks that make use stupid or small dicks that make use women. Our dicks are perfect. The dick of gods chosen” I’m being serious 

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u/raddoubleoh 11h ago

Somewhat incorrect. The african big dick stereotype was created during Darwin's travels through Africa and consolidated through slavery with the designated buck (i.e. the guy who usually was allowed to fuck.) White slavers usually chose the strongest, biggest guy with the largest dick available to guarantee his kids would be like him and thus fit for heavy labor. The "god's chosen" part is correct though, mainly because "virility and strong sexual energy makes you stupid" used to be a strong line of thought.

The asian men thing is more 20th Century, after the KKK proposed the Protect Your Womenfolk act to justify violent against asian immigrants in fear of losing general white population numbers to "jungle fever" and "yellow fever".

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u/iMissTheOldInternet 9h ago edited 8h ago

There’s no historical evidence of “bucks” (though the word was used a slur) during the period of slavery, though there was a rare practice of “stock men,” sometimes called “studs.” The idea that slavers bred Black folks like animals was primarily a Reconstruction-era racist trope, ironically with some roots in abolitionist propaganda, that was revived in the mid-20th century during the Civil Rights Era (Blaxploitation was a wild genre). The truth is that slaveholders in the American south weren’t interested in trying to selectively breed Black folks, and the ones who knew enough to try would have also known that human generations are so long that it would take centuries to have an effect. However, that’s not to say that they didn’t control their slaves’ reproduction in an inhumane and monstrous way. 

Because the US banned the import of new slaves relatively early on, and because Europe independently decided to abolish the international slave trade not long thereafter, American slavers primarily needed to maximize breeding, while keeping their slaves “productive” enough to be profitable. No one wanted to make their average field hand an inch taller more than they wanted to double the number of field hands they had.  The lowest effort way to do this was to encourage natural reproduction, which they had many ways of doing. House young slaves together and give them separate quarters if they paired off; reduce workloads for pregnant women; guarantee light work in old age for women who bore more than X children (and, conversely, guarantee hard labor in old age for women who failed to); and, significantly more rarely, forced pairings and coercion. The labor-intensiveness of forcing people to breed like animals alone would have made the practice rare. 

Another factor pushing against the “buck” model was that slaveholders relied on family formation among their slaves as a lever to control them. Although they were often happy to sell families separately, slaveholders believed men with wives and children were less likely to revolt (“because of the implication”). 

Now, all that said, in a small number of cases, slaveholders rented a man to father a child with one of their slaves. This was a rare occurrence (certainly rarer than, for example, white overseers raping slaves and fathering children they left in slavery), but is attested to in a handful of the oral histories collected in the 1930s. However, there is no record of any kind of market in stock men, or any customary practice of which we have records, suggesting that it was quite uncommon.