It started as a funny conversation over a beer with a former co-worker. Chris (a chinese american) made the bold claim that the asian women that white guys find attractive are not at all the same women that asian men think are hot.

And so we decided to do a little experiment. We’d put a a set of asian cuties in front of two groups. Group A (Good Will Pumping): white guys in their mid-30′s on a hockey team mostly from Quincy/Dorchester. Group B (The Asian Mafia): guys from an all-asian softball team in the same general age range. We’d let the results speak for themself. This was going to be great!

To the interwebs I went in search of desirable asian labybirds. It seemed like a simple enough image search on the surface, but I quickly found myself re-routed over and over again into the more unsavory alleys of the internet. Mind you, I’m not complaining about this. But it made finding appropriate images more difficult than I thought. Due to this let’s just say of the 12 pictures below, a few of them may be polite on top but NSFW on the bottom.
So I sent the image out to my Groups with the following instructions: Rank each of the women based on attractiveness on a scale from 1-10 (with 10 being the highest) Pick your “Top 3″ women based on attractiveness, in order from 1 to 3.

The Results

Good Will Pumping: I get three responses to the survey with creative subject lines such as: Asian Buffet, Me Love You Long Time, and Yellow Fever. The results are all over the place. Girls 5 and 9 both made it into two of the Top Three lists. But girl #7 had the highest overall rating with an 8.3. This really chaps my hide because Chris cited Lucy Liu as a prime example of an asian woman white guys go gaga over, so I tried to slip her into the mix.

The Asian Mafia: I write to Chris with my survey instructions and 3 days later he writes back with a one liner, “They all look the same to me.” WTF?! Chris is asian and he’s… that’s what people accuse…. OMG.

Experiment over.