Uh where exactly?
About the crown prince's affairs and then with Iglecias' admiration. It's all in a negative context, though the latter is more comedic. It also doesnt help that it's set in a historical setting with heavy religious symbolism. The story doesnt need good gay representation or anything since many similar stories go without it and even make a joke about it between two good male friends. But the fact that homosexuality is brought up as a problem twice just flares up my red flags.
Wasn’t the crown prince a womanising bastard. I don’t think it’s stated that his affair was with a man. It’s that he had too many partners and he had perverted sadistic tastes. He also caught a disease because of his lifestyle and passed it to our fl and then publicly blamed her for it and her mother made the fl apologise. Let’s not forget the general abuse he dished out to her.
So basically the crown prince is a complete pos all around whatever his sexuality.
Can’t remember the latter tbh.
But if we looking at it in a historical and religious point then realistically if the author is portraying it negatively then that’s the take of the time. Doesn’t necessarily have to do with their view themselves. Thus far this story has been very realistic in general terms. Like how our fl has panic attacks. Because no one can go through what she did and come out unscathed.
It was chapter 33. And dude, I'm not criticizing the story as a whole. I'm just triggered by how homosexuality is treated in this story, and you're just exacerbating it. Nevermind. I'll just drop it.
I’ll check out chapter 33. And I know. I never even said that you are criticising the story. What I meant was if it’s appearing that way it may not be the author’s opinion but just the requirements of the story setting. I was asking because I couldn’t see it is all.
sorry for putting my two cents but i think i read some novel spoilers where it stated that ines wasn’t very fond of mlm (could even be stated she was homophobic) bc of the prince sleeping with whoever (didn’t matter their gender) which resulted ines getting like infected with numerous amounts of sexual transmitted diseases which led to her distaste of yk what… so honestly i don’t blame you for getting that impression
Hmmm. Maybe it was explicitly stated in the novel or maybe I have forgotten then. I only remember her hating the crown prince because of the person he is that brought harm to her in every aspect. He hurt her verbally, physically, sexually and then publicly humiliated her too. And if I remember right she kept losing children too because of him.
Okay let’s not discuss here anymore. Sorry for replying again. The original poster has expressly stated they don’t want to discuss it any more. I at least won’t reply again.
The story is good but I cant help but sense some underlying homophobia, but it's all from Ines' point of view so it may just be her aloof personality that's giving the wrong impression.