2021
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1979455
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Feeling Like a Fetish: Racialized Feelings, Fetishization, and the Contours of Sexual Racism on Gay Dating Apps

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“…Researchers may also consider directly analyzing user profiles or creating dummy accounts on different apps/websites. A few studies have analyzed RSD in online environments by viewing large numbers of profiles [ 19 , 27 , 31 , 48 ] and future research can analyze racism in profiles using categories from the RSD scale. To gain insight into the role of RSD in the acceptance or rejection of potential partners and in personal messages, researchers can create dummy profiles to interact with real users.…”
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“…Researchers may also consider directly analyzing user profiles or creating dummy accounts on different apps/websites. A few studies have analyzed RSD in online environments by viewing large numbers of profiles [ 19 , 27 , 31 , 48 ] and future research can analyze racism in profiles using categories from the RSD scale. To gain insight into the role of RSD in the acceptance or rejection of potential partners and in personal messages, researchers can create dummy profiles to interact with real users.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An exception to this systemic exclusion is the erotic objectification of men of color. Patterns of objectification draw on sexual scripts that typecast certain racial/ethnic groups into specific sexual roles or fetishize certain groups on the basis of perceived physical and behavioral characteristics [ 10 , 30 , 31 , 32 ]. In the case of young sexual minority Black men (YSMBM), they are often stereotyped as being sexually dominant, typically the insertive partner during anal sex, and as having large penises [ 31 , 33 , 34 ].…”
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“…Although the mission of these apps is to connect users, scholars have determined that dating apps, regardless of whether they are gay, lesbian, or straight apps, have been saturated with sexual racism across societies. Rather than connecting users, many scholars instead say that they divide users of different races and ethnicities (Chan et al, 2021; Chen and Liu, 2021; Conner, 2019; Han, 2021; Li and Chen, 2021; Peck et al, 2021; Pieber, 2021; Robinson, 2015; Stacey and Forbes, 2022; Ang et al, 2021). Political scientist Bedi (2015: 998) theorizes sexual racism as ‘prioritizing individuals as romantic partners in a way that reinforces ideas of racial hierarchy or stereotypes’ and points out that intimacy should be seen as a matter of social justice.…”
Section: Sexual Racism On Dating Appsmentioning
confidence: 99%