Nice analysis my dude ヾ(☆▽☆)
Damn, you're right.
Now I feel depressed. You are right. If we had Jihwa as a girl in this story doing the same crazy crying bitch the readers would be merciless and there wouldn't be any hot Tarzan to play with crazy Jane.
Yeahhh!!
Also, I think people like Jihwa more bc he's a man. If he was a girl she would be a stereotypical annoying crybaby girl that society told us are undesirable. We don't see them in the same way even tho they behave the same way bc girls are the ones being shamed for being clingy and annoying but if the guy acts like that he's cute and possessive...
I was thinking how lucky Jihwa is for being a gay character in a Yaoi story.
We all know we are reading a trope Yaoi --- and frankly I have no problem with it, I know very well what i signed for so I'm not one of those readers who engage in stories that they don't like just to nag about it to the end --- anyway, it's a trope so who is Jihwa here?
Jihwa is that trope Yaoi girl who get in the middle of the main gay couple and tries to get rid of the rival and, just like the most annoying Yaoi girl tropes out there, spends most of their time either having crying tantruns, finding another man to do the deed of destroying the rival, or any other trope stereotype 'bitch' that is the girl in Yaoi stories who loses the guy.
Luckily for Jihwa she is not a girl. He does the very same thing girls do in other stories but because he is a man, he will be given a much better destiny in the story. He will have a redemption kind of arch where he regrets his bad deeds and most importantly, a completely new hunk created just for him, that is very much the copycat version of the man he couldn't have, is created just for him to have his happy ending with.
To be clear, this is not a trashing. I know very well this all falls into the world of Yaoi and like many other things, I am happy that these stories are like they are instead of trying to 'clean' or eliminate them with pseudo intellectual moral shaming.
It's entertainment and I love it. This was just an observation since I have been thinking who Jihwa reminds of and then just hit me that Jihwa is the annoying 'bitch' we are so used to see --- only that we know girls in Yaoi usually don't get a second chance or even more an inflatable 'ready-to-love' doll character to be their rebound.