After reading the recent post on the blog, I agree with some of what he said.

It obviously isn’t just Asian American men who buy into and perpetuate these ideas: on the contrary, sexual conquest and dominance lie at the heart of masculinity in White-dominant, Western societies. It is institutions within these societies that prop up these ideas, with racism and sexism working together to create a system that values Whiteness and maleness above all else. What’s frustrating about when Asian American men do it, though, is that often it seems that there is a conscious attempt to engage with and play into this definition of masculinity as a way to combat the removal of a masculine identity that is perpetrated against them. In an attempt to reject the desexualization and ‘emasculation’ that they experience and to reclaim a masculine identity for themselves, some end up just taking on the most damaging elements of White, Western, heteronormative masculinity. Not only is this damaging in that this idea of masculinity is harmful, but it is also counterproductive: it is, after all, this very definition of masculinity and the White-Dominant structures on which it rests that excluded Asian men in the first place, and will continue to do so as long as it exists. When someone endorses this system by buying into its idea of what a man should be doesn’t do anything beyond make a that individual person feel a little better: on the whole, it just keeps the same system in place, consigning future generations of Asian American men to the same feelings of invisibility that men like Eddie Huang are ostensibly fighting against.

The whole Asian "pick up" is exactly that, AA males trying to define themselves by the hyper-sexual kind of masculine that white society have excluded AA men of being in the first place.

While they are trying to become this kind of masculine (which is just them being defined by how society has emasculated them, and they overcompensate), they are missing out on some of the broader issues that will effect them much more, and for longer periods of time (bamboo ceiling, affirmative action, etc).

So at the same time, society emasculates AA men, and so AA men go and try to embody the exact form of hypermasculinity that excludes AA men in the first place.