Take an average drama add two girls kissing. whoop the hype machine rolls into gear and the 10 reviews start piling…
Two women kissed? What's next, whole franchises built on men and women panting through forced nudity and "sex" scenes, selling fast food with orgasm faces, etc. Oh wait ... that already happens in "straight" media and you don't complain until it’s gay media doing it
Episode 5 wasn't what I had in mind when I hit play. They could’ve panned to anything, rain on a window, a flickering lamp, etc, and it would’ve been a more fitting choice than the "straight" porn Woo Ri's character was watching
I’ll endure, for the greater gay good. Hye Ri and Su Bin's chemistry is carrying the drama on its back
I have a complete different opinion on Omegaverse. Yes, I know that people say it is a mrally grey area and I…
"Now let us not go into who should be called women or not. Because not all women menstruate or have the so called female organs"
Dormant or disrupted by age and illness, menstruation is a bodily function experienced by women. No (healthy) man has cause to check his pockets for a pad or tampon
"First, many gay couples love and want children, yes many adopt, but what if they long for their own flesh and blood? Just like any other hetero couple?"
Procreation is an exercise in narcissism, it's the belief that the world is somehow incomplete without another carbon copy of one’s neuroses, insecurities, and receding hairline
Those passing down their genetic material rather than adopting the abundance of existing children in need of homes don't long for parenthood or children. They long for a smaller, needier version of themselves to validate them (and they will deny it)
Gay relationships don't spawn clones/mini-mes, and that's a good thing. They aren't a puzzle missing a piece, or a machine in need of rewiring, to whisper, "if only" at the sight of a crib. They're perfect the way they are
"Omegaverse brings out a fantasy world for them where this is possible" "... and normalising life of a gay couple just like any het couple"
Omegaverse dilutes and straightwashes gay relationships, burdening them with patriarchal reproductive expectations they're not meant to shoulder
"Second, this is a bit twisted. from my experience, it is mostly women who write and also read Omegaverse. Why?"
Because it has nothing to do with gay relationships and everything to do with a fetishistic distortion/dilution of gay relationships
"Another reason? Sorting through their own trauma"
Omegaverse isn't a constructive, effective coping mechanism. And its female consumers aren't burning down the house of patriarchy. They're redecorating its interiors, issuing invitations to others to partake in a remodeled oppression
"I assure you, that Omegaverse lovers are not homophobic"
I assure you that omegaverse and its "fans" are homophobic and misogynistic. I say this with the lived experience of a gay woman
The characters have chemistry but damn I'm happy they didn't make it a BL because a minor and a 50 yr old, hmm..
Aging up the character would've been a simple and elegant solution to the soul age gap. Hold the minor back a few grades or postpone the romance until after the character's graduation. Then the romance would've developed between two consenting adults, each with a mature soul
The producers swapped souls between characters, they could've also added candles to a "birthday" cake. Why didn't they? They were lazy and more interested in censoring the source material than in improving it
"Dramas like this are necessary"They're not necessaryNot all of us women are wandering around in your or society's…
Being a "grown ass" adult means I get to decide what I find empowering, and I don't find women letting men violate their bodies or vice versa empowering
My definition of empowerment involves women removing themselves from the clutches of men and the sex-focused narratives that reduce women's bodies to marketable goods for purchase and media consumption
Do you want to be a "grown ass" adult? Start by respecting other people's perspectives on "sex" instead of pushing yours on them
If you are prude and like plain romance with a peck of cheeks, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. drama is all about sexuality,…
"... it’s candid and not so hidden"
Displaying something doesn't elevate its quality
The mouldy contents of a neglected refrigerator are candid/open in their presentation, and nonetheless unappealing. The same can be applied to "sex" scenes. They're unappealing
Scrap this half-baked, half-straight adaptation and hand over the source material to Taiwan, Thailand, or Japan. They're more likely to treat it with the respect it deserves. Unlike Korea, they won't take forever to film or release it, and they won't sacrifice the few friendships between men and women to pacify the homophobes who'll sit through half of the adaptation
Imagine being a historical city, and your main purpose now is hosting celebrity "proposals." I feel bad for Paris, and the Eiffel Tower stuck in the background of these two
Omegaverse is the sad result of what happens when you take the gay out of a gay romance, straightwash it, slap a BL tag on it, and call it a day. It's a ploy to package "straightness" and gender conformity as progressive storytelling
"Omegas are men," they aren't. Omegas are man-looking women, or caricatures of women, complete with a non-human female heat cycle and a human female ability to get pregnant. There’s nothing male about their femaleness
Taiwan and Mainland China had the chance to give me a raw, uncensored BL masterpiece. They instead gave me omegaverse, sanitized, straightwashed, and painfully safe for the homophobic majority to consume. They let me down
"Mpreg" in BL ... That’s where it stops being BL. Omegas are women in men’s clothing, and "mpreg" is female pregnancy trying to pass as something else to indulge the ignorant masses
I’ll endure, for the greater gay good. Hye Ri and Su Bin's chemistry is carrying the drama on its back
I’m relieved to know you're seeing through the illusion/lies
Dormant or disrupted by age and illness, menstruation is a bodily function experienced by women. No (healthy) man has cause to check his pockets for a pad or tampon
"First, many gay couples love and want children, yes many adopt, but what if they long for their own flesh and blood? Just like any other hetero couple?"
Procreation is an exercise in narcissism, it's the belief that the world is somehow incomplete without another carbon copy of one’s neuroses, insecurities, and receding hairline
Those passing down their genetic material rather than adopting the abundance of existing children in need of homes don't long for parenthood or children. They long for a smaller, needier version of themselves to validate them (and they will deny it)
Gay relationships don't spawn clones/mini-mes, and that's a good thing. They aren't a puzzle missing a piece, or a machine in need of rewiring, to whisper, "if only" at the sight of a crib. They're perfect the way they are
"Omegaverse brings out a fantasy world for them where this is possible"
"... and normalising life of a gay couple just like any het couple"
Omegaverse dilutes and straightwashes gay relationships, burdening them with patriarchal reproductive expectations they're not meant to shoulder
"Second, this is a bit twisted. from my experience, it is mostly women who write and also read Omegaverse. Why?"
Because it has nothing to do with gay relationships and everything to do with a fetishistic distortion/dilution of gay relationships
"Another reason? Sorting through their own trauma"
Omegaverse isn't a constructive, effective coping mechanism. And its female consumers aren't burning down the house of patriarchy. They're redecorating its interiors, issuing invitations to others to partake in a remodeled oppression
"I assure you, that Omegaverse lovers are not homophobic"
I assure you that omegaverse and its "fans" are homophobic and misogynistic. I say this with the lived experience of a gay woman
The producers swapped souls between characters, they could've also added candles to a "birthday" cake. Why didn't they? They were lazy and more interested in censoring the source material than in improving it
My definition of empowerment involves women removing themselves from the clutches of men and the sex-focused narratives that reduce women's bodies to marketable goods for purchase and media consumption
Do you want to be a "grown ass" adult? Start by respecting other people's perspectives on "sex" instead of pushing yours on them
Displaying something doesn't elevate its quality
The mouldy contents of a neglected refrigerator are candid/open in their presentation, and nonetheless unappealing. The same can be applied to "sex" scenes. They're unappealing
They're not necessary
Not all of us women are wandering around in your or society's metaphorical maze of immature horniness. I don't need explicit content to keep me going
If you can't stand hearing other people grumble about "sex," scroll past our comments or tune them out. That's what earplugs are for
"Omegas are men," they aren't. Omegas are man-looking women, or caricatures of women, complete with a non-human female heat cycle and a human female ability to get pregnant. There’s nothing male about their femaleness
Taiwan and Mainland China had the chance to give me a raw, uncensored BL masterpiece. They instead gave me omegaverse, sanitized, straightwashed, and painfully safe for the homophobic majority to consume. They let me down
I'm not okay with that