Except in perhaps the past fifty years, being a woman was a heavy disadvantage. The historical, noteworthy women were either from a rich/powerful family, married a rich/powerful man, noted for their death, or part of a large/powerful group of women. There are still places in countries where women are to be treated equal that cannot walk alone. Some women are still treated as property.
Based on the world she created, our MC has chosen the statistically safe route. She is stuck there as a foreign slave, almost starting at rock bottom in terms of worldly luck and power. And every person we have seen with any respect and appreciated skill has been a man.
She can be in the woman empowerment category right now. She is protecting herself with their ruse. And when it is lifted, she will have a connection with a powerful man few will question. Edward is also falling for what he perceives as a man, which will be a greater test of his conviction.
Reddit has asked many questions but one that has stuck with me has been: "If you could be immortal but be sent 2000 years in the past in exchange, would you do it?" Many of the answers call to mind those times were not so kind to women.
i see what you are getting at with the lack of female characters. This probably doesn't pass the bechdel test. But i mean... its still a good manga? and if you are into fxm romances, you are probably used to the female characters having little character outside of the FL. I think for a gender bender taking place in a historicsal setting, this is as expected.
Well, I agree for the most part... except for the straight/bl romance thing, I love them both ... I I'm sorry to say that he doesn't find out until chapter 40 something.... also badass women pride, hell yeah!!! Also, don't worry, I didn't think your comment even bordered on homophobic, and people can tell it's not if they actually read it, it's ok to have preferences for the manga you like... me, for example, am not to found of harems/love triangles/couples with huge age gaps, like really huge gaps.... but that doesn't mean that I hate anyone who is polysexual, nor do I shame people for being confused about who they love or want to be with, nor do I taunt couples where one is older than the other.... manga is our way to escape and feel comfortable and pursue whatever emotion we want to feel, whether it's a steamy romance or a heart wrenching tragedy or a mixture of unknown emotions caused by a love triangle! Just have fun! There's no need for you to feel like you have to defend yourself ! Different people have different tastes, some like sushi and others don't, u wouldn't beat up a person because they do/don't like sushi would u? Me neither!ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
this had been the most constructive comment section ive ever seen … its nice
Agreed agreed agreeeeed with ur comments!! THANKS A LOT FOR MENTIONING IT HEREE ┗( T﹏T )┛
Well that's relieving to see that the only people that are against my comment don't come at me for this lol.
Thank you all for understanding, I was literally debating with myself here lol.
It's true that women were never really allowed to show a better side than men and I understand it even more since I'm from France and Europe was kinda like that. At least, that's what we see from going to school and reading stories about that time.
But the fact that this is a book she's written herself, it's not a real story, it's a fiction, so that's why I'm triggered at it. She had the power to do something about this, but she just kept this wrong mentality within her book. I mean, if this was a story centering on women's situation, I would have agreed but It's not. Women aren't important visibly here so there were no point in making women's side worse.
That's what I don't understand. So far, she never said that there was a FL so clearly, the fiction is about men and their path. Women are just a side part which can even be ignored literally. To conclude in my opinion, there was no point in making women's situation worse than there were already.
Worse because there were still women who made it by themselves, being recognised by their own talent. At least in France. They were a few, but there are still some at least. And not all of them were big shot to begin with (Marie Antoinette was the big shot, modern minded queen but that's it lol), I remember learning in French literature the story of a famous countess telling her own written stories to children, and to make money, she wrote them on paper and sold them. She made her own name with her own talent of writing beautiful and mindful stories. She literally gain her fame by herself since we are still studying her stories in High School. :')
Anyway, all of that to say that since she was the author, she could have make it easier for women without endangering the main point of the story. And no one would have say it can' t be real because in some country, it was real (I gave an argument since I'm debating but hope everyone understand my point).
yeah, i think i understand with what your saying. she had to power when she started writing this story to not include such an outdated way of thinking in her plot, unless there was something further in the story that we don’t know about where the characters meet someone who is going to fight for change and equal rights, then she did a pretty questionable story... also i like how everyone is commenting, this is one of the most peaceful constructive comment section i’ve been in.
I agree. She had the ability to write women better. But with slaves in this world, there was bound to be more problems. There is always an us vs. them dilemma. At least in current events, the "them" is a virus, meaning we aren't fighting other people. Rarely do we have such a luxury not to be consumed by war. Looking at the Prince, though, makes me think this story will come up on one.
the thing is, sexism is in fact something people enjoy reading about. I don't mean this in the way that they enjoy sexism, but rather that they enjoy seeing a person succeed against great odds. To see a women in a situation were women should not succeed, and then see her do great things regardless fulfills a lot of underdog fantasies. Yes, the author could have written about a fair society, but then the story would have lost part of it's draw.
I will be honest and everyone will insult me about that but I'm not a BL fans when it comes to drama or manhwa.
Yes the author seems to be totally op for it but please, It's driving me crazy with all that is going on when she is literally a GIRL. NO BL IN THAT.
I'm not an homophobe, I mean, I have friends that are homo so Idc but I am really a fan of straight romance stories. And so I think if it continues like this, I may drop it. Dunno I still want to see how does will go the story but this is too cringy for me (almost the knight).
BUT, I have faith in the FL! Please be honest and stop with your lies right now. No one should lie about their gender.
What everyone likes about her is her talent as a technician, not for her gender. So can she please stop with the cliché of the "Men are the most possible gender to gain what they want" when women are literally the best when they are showing their badass sides. T_T It feels so great to see empowering women... I don't want to see women trying to disguise as a man just because of that cliché.
Oh maybe now that I'm debating with myself, what's wrong with this manhwa is that no real women aren't showed as proud and badass as women really are. I like seeing such prideful and intelligent female characters, almost as cunning and mischievous that they can be sweet. And there are literally no characters like that. All the girls that are shown so far are : FL, a girl disguising as a guy because she doesn't assume the fact that she is a woman, ML's fake fiancee, the cliché of the little girl following every ML with passion and jealousy toward the heroine (wow what a powerful woman, I'm so scared) and a maid, literally shown as a side-character with no development at all beside her protecting FL from BL without much of thoughts.
Well this manhwa is women empowerment as hell. Not my favorite so far. But like I said before, the heroine can definitely pass the "woman empowerment" category if she stop with her actual mind of "women can't advance, I need to be a man". And no, I'm not a feminist (or maybe a bit, I never thought of that actually), I just want people to like themselves as they are! (T.-T)