As an African-American woman and fine artist, I am tired of having to defend myself, but here it goes:

I am a Black woman fine artist who has drawn, painted and made designs which have featured the Japanese female figure, both nude and clothed, because I see her equally as beautiful as her White or other Western counterpart. I will rather refer to the Japanese female figure as "her" as opposed to "it" because the LAST thing I ever want to do is to see the Japanese female model's figure, or the model herself, as an object to fetishize. I find the latter disgusting, if you ask me. So please don't hate me for finding a new standard of beauty to portray and to expose, which is other than "stereotypical", and STOP trying to take me for a "racist, sexist White man". That's discredit, and I'll no longer stand for that!