Lauren French

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608 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2021 last heard 20 Jul

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The Hook Up · Is Having A Type Problematic? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, look, mine is very much like a Mulan moment, which as a bisexual person is such a classic, such a classic there of like, I want to be this person in all spaces of this.

Hella reflective, Nina, first.

Look at you go.

You've done some work.

absolutely you can hear it yeah but i would 100 agree like as much as i go to the mulan reference which as you know someone who has like a chinese aboriginal background like when i was looking for people growing up most of the heroes are white most of the love interests are white and i think this is where when you get people who are almost sitting in that space of yeah i've got a type yes it's racial but like it's not problematic because it's just what i'm attracted to i feel a lot of times where we haven't interrogated that we haven't actually asked ourselves that question

And I think the bit I would pull out that's so important that Nina just said was, you know, I'm so lucky that this white guy has an interest in me.

And as she said, that power dynamic of going, well, now I'm just going to take whatever is given to me because actually, like, wow, you're this like way higher than me kind of person.

which when we're going into a dating space of that, that power imbalance is going to have an impact like sexually, both, you know, in the social situations we're going to go into, we might end up in spaces that really aren't fully consensual because we're just going, well, I'm just so lucky to be here.

And that's not where we want to be in relationships.

And I don't think that's a space that's going to feel really safe or secure for a relationship just to be like, wow, I just like, I'm just so glad this person is like slumming it with me.

And I think this is where the type goes from both a problematic from like an exclusionary space as well as a fetishization space.

Yeah.

And like for me, when I first moved to Melbourne, like big city life was going out at uni and getting hit on.

And I would have people come up to me and their pickup line was, oh, I've got wild yellow fever at the moment.

So I would like love to take you home or like love to chat to you.

And they would like say it as if I was going to be, oh my God, I'm so glad you've said that, as if I was going to be really flattered.

that this person knows nothing about me and they put me in a fetishized box of, oh, you're like Asian of something.

So I've got yellow fever.

So great.

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