i completely agree, he has a reoccurring hostile and unwelcoming behaviour towards men, thats not really presented with women. but when it especially when it comes to showing affection towards men hes rather inhospitable. we haven’t seen much examples aside from a few interactions with hyunwoo but, even then his inner thoughts are rather guarded. although i’m not surprised by this, seeing as in almost every other chapter he’s getting harassed either verbally or physically by men, constantly sexualized by men, demeaned of his own masculinity by men, and much more all by men…it’s only natural he harbours resentment for them — weather conscious or subconsciously. but i think this chapter may be somewhat pivotal to the trash plot since we might dive deeper to his past traumas with men.
The author is a man
If i remember they're trans. I don't know but i stumbled on their channel on YT using mangaupdate and checked, they seems to be trans.
I agree, the women characters in this manhwa that we see him interact with that aren't his mom or sis seems to leave a favorable impression on him, the men tho.
I just realized that Iltak seems to have an aversion to men. I don't know how far the author planned Iltak's story but I feel like she planned him to have a traumatic backstory about this from the early chapters. Iltak never seems to hate women or hate just a little bit (his sister, this is either a sibling hate-love thing or actual hate because you get her, i wanna bludgeon her head in) meanwhile Iltak seems have an aversion to men, not explicitly stated but he seems distance to men more then women. In an Korean Neo-confucian society this is deeply embeded in the culture, but Iltak seems to not have women, we don't see actually hating women jusst that he seems a little bit normal for a Neo-confucian society, but he seems to have an aversion to men, he feels disgusted by men in a few chapter.