Chinese-Australian woman Emma told Hack men assume she will be "quiet, shy and demure" - but she says she's anything but. Christian said all the dating data he'd seen fits the same pattern: Maybe this is an app just for weirdos who love Asian chicks and don't love black women? Denton said his research has found guys who rated low have come from historically marginalised groups. I put "preference" in quotes, because I think there's a very fine line that teeters between preferences and fetishization, but that could be a whole other conversation. And that general idea is not necessarily something to get our backs up about, since even studies on babies indicate we might be wired to prefer our "in groups" to whatever we perceive as "out groups.