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They are questions that emerge as a sort of script that people use to exotify and marginalize mixed race people and interracial relationships.
Racist and Inappropriate Questions and Comments About Multiracial Families and Individuals Part I 2006
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While it's true that individual preferences in partners are complicated, when large swaths of queer women's community exotify trans men or identify as trans-sensual or even "tranny chasers" while being clear that they will not consider trans women as potential partners, that's transmisogyny (and in some cases, general transphobia or cissexist exotification as well).
The Bilerico Project 2009
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And I'm thinking to myself, for me to exotify those characters for another person's benefit would not only be a disservice to myself and to that person but it would make Edward Said turn around in his grave and how could I do that to him.
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