Comment by Rottengirl26 on I LOVE FEMBOYS

@I LOVE FEMBOYS Mb if you felt offended by me bringing your race into this, but the reason why I brought it up is because you of all people should know why this manhwa is considered offensive. I wouldn't hate you if you were a white person, I'd just be less surprised since most white people aren't oppressed so they can't really understand why people are taking this situation so seriously. And from what I've seen, most of the people defending this aren't poc. I'm not sure about you, but how would your people feel if someone decided to write a romantic series where the trope is colonizer x colonized? In no way would that feel great, it would feel insulting. Also, I'm pretty sure most of the "backlash" they got is from people outside of their country, I firmly believe if they continued with their series, it would still gain quite the audience especially among Koreans so I don't think it's a forced apology. The fact that the ml considers himself a "slave" to the mc is enough to realize why this this is wrong. And yes, master and slave tropes can appear in different stories but the context also matters. BDSM is about consent, not about how one race is more superior than the other. Comparing that to such a big issue that lasted for centuries is revolting. Mind you slavery still exists. R*e has already been romanticized and normalized in the bl community, and the next thing you guys want to normalize is slavery. Like genuinely be for real. Fiction does affect reality when real life events are being depicted.

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I LOVE FEMBOYSMember·4 days ago

@Rottengirl26 Bringing my background into this is a wild take—my race doesn't dictate my ability to read a fictional story objectively. Also, if you genuinely think a "colonizer x colonized" dynamic could never be accepted or celebrated in media, I suggest you take a look at the movie RRR. It became a massive global phenomenon, swept awards, and had everyone obsessed with its music and dance numbers, all while centering its entire plot around British-colonized India. People are entirely capable of separating historical backdrops and intense power dynamics in fiction from real-world atrocities. Reading a dark or messy trope in a manhwa doesn't mean someone is trying to "normalize" real-world slavery. It's fiction, not a political manifesto.

I LOVE FEMBOYSMember·4 days ago

@Rottengirl26 The argument that "fiction affects reality" in this context just doesn't hold up—girl, be real. By that logic, if a story depicts a fictional character jumping across mountains, flying through the air, or surviving impossible stunts, are people suddenly going to run outside and try to do it in real life? Obviously not, because human beings are entirely capable of understanding the boundary between a creative story and actual human behavior. Fictional situations are not a carbon copy of real-life morality, and comparing the two makes no sense. Readers dive into dark, messy, or dramatic tropes in a manhwa for the sake of entertainment and conflict, not because they are trying to "normalize" or endorse real-world atrocities. Fiction is a space for storytelling, not a political manifesto, and treating adults like they can't tell the difference between a comic book panel and real life is just absurd.

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