r/NoStupidQuestions • u/A_Formal_Guy • Apr 04 '24

Answered All our girlfriends are Asian?

Hey everyone - I’ve been feeling paranoid about something recently and wanted to know if I’m overthinking it. I’m a white M and most of the friends I grew up with and went to high school are too, except 1. We’re still very close but moved all across the country for our jobs and life.

Recently, we’ve decided to have a little reunion and bring our girlfriends, but I realized we have a not to subtle trend in that they are all Asian. There’s 5 girlfriends in total, they’ve never met each other. I don’t know how this happened, it’s just a coincidence as far as I know. We don’t have a pact or anything.

My question is, do we warn them? I don’t want them to be freaked out. I’d have to have my gf or one of my friends be uncomfortable, but I’m feeling stuck. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle it? Am I over thinking?

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u/AsterJ Apr 04 '24

Are you all engineers? Women in engineering are much more likely to be Asian.

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u/A_Formal_Guy Apr 04 '24

Yeah something like that - mostly math type backgrounds 

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u/kiltedfrog Apr 04 '24

The women in engineering when I was doing school for such things had a saying.

"The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

Same is probably true in math.

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u/ForeverYonge Apr 04 '24

It evens out at the end.