Note: I have heavily edited this comment because I feel my initial reaction was too emotional and misplaced. I do think this webtoon perpetuates a lot of misogynistic stereotypes about violent men being attractive if they do it "for your sake" or that someone being "slutty" needs to get their due justice by having revenge porn of them posted publicly, but I also perpetuate stereotypes by talking down to the author in a personal way and acting like this is what "straight women" write. All in all it's just better to be critical in a productive way, without being a prick. Shoutout to the person who called me out I forgot comments get deleted if I edit a post!
ok ive only read until chapter 21 and with such a high rating I was hoping for something good, but this trope in BL of tops being secretly (or not so secretly) violent men always grosses me out. Why he gotta be going around with anyone except the uke and pulling teeth out, stalking him, learning his schedule, lying to meet him, being a prick to anyone else... I just find it more terrifying than attractive.
Their first encounter was so nice too, so I thought that the story would be more in line with the tone. Him doing this 180 feels very weird, I feel even if it's explained later that his character shift is related to his transformation or whatever you want to call it, I'd be terrified if I found out a man I thought was kind and caring towards me was actually like this with anyone else all along! Either make him a fucked up red flag guy or don't.
Also I'm sorry but Super Duper Ultra Dominant Alpha???? Is this a joke? DOMINANT ALPHAS ARE ALREADY A JOKE YOU WANTED SOMETHING HIGHER THAN "DOMINANT" "ALPHA" MEN??? (￣∇￣")
Also, and this really irked me, why are we pretending that omega who slept their way to the top "got what they deserved" for having revenge porn of themselves released publicly??? That's a fucked up crime, and especially in Korea where hidden cameras in public spaces spying on women and revenge porn is so blatantly used against them, I feel it's especially damning that they used this as a way to give a "slut sleeping their way to the top" "justice". What kind of justice is that?!?!?!?
I really like Payback (imo a place where a "red flag seme" is done well) so I'm kind of really disappointed by this work by this author... I'll read a bit further to see if the story evolves in an interesting way but now that he stalked him all the way to work I'm like just drill a peephole in his bedroom at this point why won't you you clearly have no boundaries.
Note: I have heavily edited this comment because I feel my initial reaction was too emotional and misplaced. I do think this webtoon perpetuates a lot of misogynistic stereotypes about violent men being attractive if they do it "for your sake" or that someone being "slutty" needs to get their due justice by having revenge porn of them posted publicly, but I also perpetuate stereotypes by talking down to the author in a personal way and acting like this is what "straight women" write. All in all it's just better to be critical in a productive way, without being a prick. Shoutout to the person who called me out I forgot comments get deleted if I edit a post!
ok ive only read until chapter 21 and with such a high rating I was hoping for something good, but this trope in BL of tops being secretly (or not so secretly) violent men always grosses me out. Why he gotta be going around with anyone except the uke and pulling teeth out, stalking him, learning his schedule, lying to meet him, being a prick to anyone else... I just find it more terrifying than attractive.
Their first encounter was so nice too, so I thought that the story would be more in line with the tone. Him doing this 180 feels very weird, I feel even if it's explained later that his character shift is related to his transformation or whatever you want to call it, I'd be terrified if I found out a man I thought was kind and caring towards me was actually like this with anyone else all along! Either make him a fucked up red flag guy or don't.
Also I'm sorry but Super Duper Ultra Dominant Alpha???? Is this a joke? DOMINANT ALPHAS ARE ALREADY A JOKE YOU WANTED SOMETHING HIGHER THAN "DOMINANT" "ALPHA" MEN??? (￣∇￣")
Also, and this really irked me, why are we pretending that omega who slept their way to the top "got what they deserved" for having revenge porn of themselves released publicly??? That's a fucked up crime, and especially in Korea where hidden cameras in public spaces spying on women and revenge porn is so blatantly used against them, I feel it's especially damning that they used this as a way to give a "slut sleeping their way to the top" "justice". What kind of justice is that?!?!?!?
I really like Payback (imo a place where a "red flag seme" is done well) so I'm kind of really disappointed by this work by this author... I'll read a bit further to see if the story evolves in an interesting way but now that he stalked him all the way to work I'm like just drill a peephole in his bedroom at this point why won't you you clearly have no boundaries.