I'm sorry but this comment is so fucking funny
Mermaids aren't real and thus there is no "reality" in which they are just as intelligent as humans. The author can choose any kind of mermaid to write about and this is the kind she chose. Just as any story can do whatever they want with mermaids. All countries and cultures have different stories about them and people can pick and choose what parts they want in their stories or fully create their own mythology.
The author is also likely a woman as most female-targeted mangas are. This story is not some super evil ploy by the patriarchy either, it's just that artists are subconsciously influenced by their reality and by other media. People can have fun and not everything has to be out to et you was a woman. In this story we even have a self-sufficient mermaid society that only uses men for sex to make children before abandoning them to live by themselves. The mc falling in love and choosing to go against her culture isn't evil, it's just a choice she makes.
This story is also obviously influenced by the little mermaid so saying this is a super radical take on a mermaid story is fucking wild since it follows the footsteps of the most popular story about mermaids.
Everything about this comment reads that you didn't like the story but had to pathologise why and then make it everyone else's problem. You don't need to like a story, you can even take issues with actions made by characters, but to accuse the author of being a misogonist who is promoting forcing women to give birth and submit and claiming this story is a massive ploy by our governments to indoctrinate us it wild
In reality, the merfolk are just as intelligent as humans but also far more wicked. Yet, the author has severely nerfed them, all to justify the FL behaving like a…child.
The merfolk have been reduced to a group of pregnancy obsessed women, with no aspirations beyond finding a random man to father their child.
Meanwhile, the FL has zero survival skills or common sense, despite being from the vast cruel sea’s—which is far from a fairyland. She’s perfectly fine being treated like an object by the man she naively fell for.
And the man? He’s a vile tyrant who has left a trail of innocent corpses in his wake. If I were in his position, I’d have taken out the royal family and myself before committing such atrocities. There’s no justification for his evil deeds. He should have rotted in repentance instead of getting a woman with the mentality of a child that he can manhandle, Stockholm romance isn’t going to magically absolve him of all the blood on his hands. If anything, it only adds onto the distasteful writing.
This whole story reeks of being written by a man or someone on propaganda payroll. Remember, birth rates are going down and men are scum, this is just a ploy of the patriarchy.
To my mentally developed ladies, it’s not worth wasting any of ur precious time.