You don't have to read it tho?? And actually normal people can understand the difference between what's fiction and what's not so yeah I'm gonna treat it as fiction. If it bothers you you can stick to the fluff tags or romcoms but don't come here after reading a manhwa that clearly has "fictional" problematic content and cry about it. Also you don't know my life at all so you really fucked up on me just finding out about rape and sa huh...
anyone and everyone who uses the logic of "distinguish fiction from reality" has a fucked up moral compass and lives in some weird ass bubble they've created around themselves. every single piece of fiction has an intended purpose and message to deliver to its audience, whether it's niche or not. everything you see and every word you read has a direct affect on you, they influence and impact the ideas, morals, and thoughts you have. a direct example of this is characters from fictional stories inspiring young children to become like them, they're shown to you as a way to teach you about what's accepted and what's not, and behavioral consequences.
rape and sexual assault being used as a form of entertainment in the media is unacceptable. being forcibly raped by someone is neither an enjoyable nor ideal situation for someone to be in. it causes trauma, influences your daily life, can lead to development of a wide range of mental illnesses, and is SERIOUS. rape is never, and will never, be a way for authors to make their characters undergo "character development".
rape is not a way to label a character as a "red flag" or as "toxic". rape is not an act someone can commit, and all of a sudden have a moral dilemma, and decide to "become better". rape is not something you easily recover from. as shown in this manhwa, victims do not "fall in love" with their rapists over "kind acts". victims don't suddenly enjoy sexual intercourse with the same person that forced themselves on them and committed vile and immoral acts.
it would be one thing for an author to include rape in a storyline and properly demonstrate the impacts it has, and then put the perpetrator behind BARS. it's another thing to not only unrealistically portray sexual assault and rape, but then use it as character development and have the victim fall in love with the rapist.
and it's so funny to use the logic of "oh it's fictional" because that's exactly what creeps on discord say as justification for their addiction to lolicon. "oh but it's fictional!!!", doesn't justify the fact they're attracted to girls that resemble children, does it? and remember when i said fiction affects reality? these same men go out into the REAL world and have unrealistic expectations of women being short, innocent, child-like, no body hair, etc etc. fiction that's portrayed in unrealistic ways affects people's expectations of reality. it leads to romanticization.
and it's SO weird to me how you're telling me you have understanding on what rape and sexual assault is, which im assuming is you indirectly telling me you've experienced it, but then DEFENDING this shit. as another rape victim, lemme just say, almost no person who has experienced rape enjoys it when their trauma is used by female authors who don't know what it's like, as "character development" and "plot" in their ridiculous gay fantasies.
CHECK YOURSELF. check your moral compass. check your empathy. check your understanding of rape and sexual assault. check what a majority of victims think. check how messed up it is, that people who have never gone through the same trauma are making revenue and profit off of it by portraying it in horrendous ways.
get help, go to therapy and give the phone to your parents bc you’re a minor. Take some meds because fiction is not reality and you clearly have a hard time distinguishing it. You ain’t owning anyone here with your mental illness on full view. I’m serious you shouldn’t be on this site it’s fucking up your brain.
I really don't understand the hate comments on this. If you want to read stuff full of fluff start to finish go read that?? Like why are you being hateful in the comments and drop my mood too? Honestly f u all I'm gonna enjoy what I want, you can just live in your sugar unicorn fairytale stories which I also like too, but there's this little thing called genre and it actually means there's different plots and different ways to tell stories