
Romanticizing rape, yikes. I was raped at a very young age so it’s hard to see shit like this. It’s hard to see people ROMANTICIZE rape.

when people equate that the ending to this plot is a "happy ending" as almost every single person has done so in the comment section and the author ignoring the trauma caused by a victim now being forever tied to their rapist and abuser as the best alternative instead of therapy, prison arraignment, or a restraining order it is very much romanticizing the plot. please take that gaslighting rhetoric elsewhere.

I'm sorry, then why don't you just continue the story instead of the original author. This is yaoi, this isn't real, you really can't decide how this story will end. The story is fucked up but thats just how it is. even in real life fucked up stories happens like in this one without therapy nor prison

No one is saying the author can't write what they want but if you're specifically writing a plot that involves the romance of two characters with dark elements intending for these main characters to ultimately persevere DESPITE the given situation and obstacles, that is romanticizing by definition because you are presenting the people and incidents in a romantic way that "helps" establish their romance. You DON'T need to necessarily have therapy or prison be the only options to conclude such a story, but if you do conclude that what Dohyun went through was necessary to ensure his romance that is in fact problematic. It's the same problem as having say a character experience rape and equating being raped made them a "stronger" person rather than they're a stronger person despite their rape and overcoming it. One suggests the experience was necessary to strengthen a person, while the other acknowledges the rape's impact but does not reduce the individual to their experience. And even suggesting that me being critical of this difference is insulting to the author is absurd, and is literally the reason why rape is never taken serious in the first place and continuously exploited in this way in many genres. Are you that offended by the suggestion that hey maybe don't use the traumatic experience, experienced by millions everyday as just a segue in your random story if you're going to trivialize it? Being fiction doesn't get a pass for such little foresight. How about the next time someone depicts black face in a tv, tell black people it's wrong if they're offended if they don't find the "joke" funny tell it themselves. It's not about censorship it's about actually understanding what you contribute to if you can't do the decency of properly contextualizing and approaching a sensitive REAL subject matter with respect, nuance, or empathy.
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