I find it quite interesting how common the "spiteful homophobic girl gay couple" trope is in yaoi, especially given that it was mostly women (lesbian and heterosexual) who helped men during the AIDS crisis, and are indeed propping up the BL industry today.
Perhaps it's a case of internalised misogyny? Regardless, it's strange how women primarily produce and consume BL/yaoi/shounen ai/gay fanfic and still portray themselves as the enemies and men as the heroes.
omg wait... I never thought of it this way, this is an eye opener
everything u said is in the american gay experience tho, its probably different in korea where this is made.
HOWEVER u def are correct, a girl getting in the middle of a gay rs in man/ga/hwa’s is such a tired trope atp let them be gay in peace plz authors
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This has zero to do with misogyny. This is about incorporating villains in a story to stir up drama. And males and females alike take this role to equal parts. Be it the bitchy homophobic girl that got rejected or the arrogant homophobic coworker. Both are equally as common in BL.
And as DG08 said; your comment relates to the american experience, not worldwide. Women all over the world can be spiteful, nasty and homophobic bitches. Doesn't mean the authors of BLs think ALL women are like this. (They also incorporate just as many kind and supportive female characters, more so than males usually, so that also works against your theory.)
People need to stop trying to apply any form of sexism when all the character is is a villain for a story. Which every story has and many need to be of interest.
Stories like these would be weird if all you implemented was male villains who are homophobic. Which, ironically enough, would be the actual sexist thing to do.
Although I definitely agree that internalized misogyny most likely plays a role in these types of tropes, I'd argue that in this case Mi-ok is probably dealing with some type of internalized homophobia. From the little that was shown of her it seams that she's probably delt with some type of discrimination or is afraid of potentially dealing with it, and therefore is trying to help Mr. Kwon, even if it's not the right way to go about it... Or mb she really is just homophic... It really doesn't seem to be the case though, this story is way too wholesome for that.
I think this might be something different, there’s a Chinese phrase that essentially translates to “Loving the wrong way” that we use a lot in the queer community.
It stems from homophobia, but it’s different. Essentially happens in pretty traditional families, most notably from small towns, where it’s not that your family hates you for being gay, It’s that they’re scared that you’re gay and they try to help you because I don’t understand. I get that impression from this girl, I think she truly cares about the Village chief, and thinks that this is the loving thing to do. it’s more of a cultural nuance, but that I think is applicable to lots of people.
Exactly this
the blood on his lip makes it look like he's wearing joker makeup i can't
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Everyone, let's all be grateful that we are reading this illegally, and as a result, no money will go to the author!
I don't know what made it worse:
1. His cringe latin genus-species ass name, CANIS LUPUS
2. The fake ass photoshopping. HIS ASS IS NOT IN INDIA
3. The way jooin called him "mong", which here in the UK, means MORON.
So i read up to ch12 on temple scans and my bet is that the child of the guy who died (in the flashback) and was throwing stones at ishin is ACTUALLY director yoon. After all, they both have the same surname and it would explain the documents he left on the computer and how he remembers ishin from his past.
Also i don't get why everyone in the comments is saying jintae is the *official* seme. He doesn't even appear in the intro chapter?! It makes total sense that director yoon would be the seme, especially if my theory is right. He's less psycho than jintae too lol although the bar isn't exactly high
Omg. JinTae is horrible person?!?
But please don't spoil. I'll read it for myself.
I don't remember anyone throwing stones at Han I-Shin. Did I miss a scene!?!?
Yes, also, ppl are dumb saying that ML isn't here yet when clearly his is on the cover.
And that JinTae is someone from Han I-Shin's past. But he's also DEAD. So I'm not sure what kind of relationship they had in the PAST, but unless you can bring the dead-back-to-life, and this ain't it, so no, this ain't it.
As I said, i read ahead on another website so that's how i know about the stone throwing. And yeah i really don't get why so many ppl think jintae is the ML #－.－). It's very obvious in a few ch that the ML is dir. yoon
I read ahead same as you did but I didn't see any stone throwing. I saw the bloodied forehead of MC and the MC's bandaging Director Yoon's hand but I don't recall seeing stones being thrown. Unless there were some loading errors
The seme looks like a tanned version of that mormon guy, lucky blue smith ... but like less spiritually hollow
LMAOOO never did i think lucky would be mentioned under a yaoi manhwa