The ending can be happy without a romantic relationship 🤦🏻♀️
you and the users who endorse your position amassed more than 20 upvotes within a matter of minutes as well. you can't expect me to believe they're not your alternate accounts
i will be bringing this matter to the attention of the platform administrators
Not gonna lie, this drama already failed at that looking at the fandom and edits it has spawned.
the broader discourse doesn't seem to acknowledge the asymmetry of power within pedagogical relationships
i'm an aspiring teacher currently finalizing my master's thesis, and as such, i'm attuned to the ethical imperatives of maintaining professional teacher-student boundaries. it's inconceivable to me that any individual entrusted with pedagogical authority would compromise the integrity of that role by entering into a non-platonic relationship with a student
the classroom is a space of epistemic authority, and any erosion of professional boundaries risks replicating systems of exploitation and abuse
The ending can be happy without a romantic relationship 🤦🏻♀️
"if people can be okay with a man liking another man sexually than 6 year apart is nothing"
they're not equivalent, not by a long shot. one is love between two grown men, freely given. the other is a predatory teacher-student dynamic, where one party cannot consent on equal footing
you're not pretending an 18-year-old high school student is on equal footing with a teacher in power, are you?
The ending can be happy without a romantic relationship 🤦🏻♀️
"... the brain likewise ought not to be a cramped little chamber incapable of reasoning beyond its immediate suspicions" "You supplied the impropriety, the hidden intentions, the ethical scandal, and every dark implication entirely of your own accord. But then, people generally offer the world whatever they possess in greatest abundance within themselves ..."
if, as you posit, individuals externalize the contents of their inner minds and reservoirs, then your attribution to me of bitterness, closed-mindedness/dogmatism, and ill will confesses your own affective saturation with precisely those negative qualities
one does not perceive what one does not possess. one recognizes it, and in your case, the recognition appears not incidental. you did not disagree with me; you projected a pathology onto my judgement/narrative observation and transformed it into a full psycho-social autopsy of my character
The ending can be happy without a romantic relationship 🤦🏻♀️
"... nothing could prevent an author from granting such an ending during the heroine’s later years"
nothing, that is, except the barest standard of moral decency
romance presupposes mutuality, spontaneity, and freedom from coercion. none of these conditions can exist when one party has spent months or years in a position of institutional dominance and evaluative power over the other
the classroom is not a waiting room for future lovers. a teacher who waits for their student to age into legality/become legally consumable has already transgressed the ethical foundation of their role
south korean law designates 19 as the age of majority. an 18-year-old remains in an incomplete state of neurocognitive and psychosocial development, which is further compounded by their subordinate position within the school hierarchy
are you implying that a non-platonic relationship between a high school student and a teacher/pedagogical authority figure is permissible?
a teacher is entrusted with the cultivation of virtue and discipline in their students. students place their trust in the teacher. to exploit that trust for personal or emotional gratification would be a breach of professional ethics
The ending can be happy without a romantic relationship 🤦🏻♀️
any mind which romanticizes the predatory asymmetry of teacher-student/adult-minor relations, wherein an adult or teacher preys upon a minor or high school student under the guise of affection, enacts a willful perversion of the moral order. such a mind is not wise, for wisdom governs desire. rather, it is enslaved to desire, and thus rightly judged as evil
would any of you be so kind as to confirm, with certainty, that no segment of this drama indulges in the portrayal of pedagogically inappropriate or legally impermissible affiliations between teachers and students/adults and minors? should such elements be present, i'd be obligated to discontinue watching
teacher-student/adult-minor relationships violate the categorical imperative by instrumentalizing a developing consciousness for ends external to its own flourishing and fulfillment
a minor or high school student exists within a state of institutional dependency. by virtue of their incomplete neurocognitive maturation, vulnerability, and heightened susceptibility to coercion, they'd be unequipped to provide informed consent or comprehend the long-term, irreversible consequences of intimate commitments. in contrast, an adult or teacher, equipped with developed executive functioning and years of experience, would occupy a position of consolidated cognitive and social power from which they'd impose their will upon the minor or high school student whose capacity for autonomous self-determination is not yet actualized. the minor or high school student would be exploited and treated as a means to adult or teacher gratification rather than as an end in themselves
i believe that no story should romanticize the predatory pursuit and grooming of a minor or high school student
i get it, the story and characters are still good and it's easy to look past a few scenes. but that's exactly…
i find myself grieving the slow surrender of creative spaces, once intimate, vulnerable, and distinctly human, to algorithms that gorge on centuries of artistic output and excrete synthetic replicas so polished they consign the original minds to irrelevance
the same species that mythologized the shadows under the bed now spends its nights nurturing and entertaining a far more real and calculating bogeyman. one wrong step, and everything might slip from our hands
please tell me you're joking... and here i was hyping up the intro TT i'm putting myself in time-out
within seconds, i could tell the intro was ai-generated. every frame felt unnervingly lifeless and artificial, as if no human hand had ever wrestled with its creation
life has dealt me a bad hand of late. i found myself in need of a reprieve from the weight i've been carrying, and then, as if guided by fate, "duang with you" entered my life with almost serendipitous timing
each episode was my safe place and revealed to me the depth of teeteepor's genuine connection and love. there was an easy spark between them, you see. they were equals walking side by side and communicating in a language older than words themselves; one of lingering glances and shared breaths. their happiness didn't just play out on screen. it spilled over and touched me with a kind of warmth i hadn't known i was missing
my heartfelt gratitude goes to teeteepor and the production team for manifesting a work of art so human, gentle, and healing. the care they poured into it hasn't gone unnoticed. they've made a real difference in the world
i will be bringing this matter to the attention of the platform administrators
i'm an aspiring teacher currently finalizing my master's thesis, and as such, i'm attuned to the ethical imperatives of maintaining professional teacher-student boundaries. it's inconceivable to me that any individual entrusted with pedagogical authority would compromise the integrity of that role by entering into a non-platonic relationship with a student
the classroom is a space of epistemic authority, and any erosion of professional boundaries risks replicating systems of exploitation and abuse
they're not equivalent, not by a long shot. one is love between two grown men, freely given. the other is a predatory teacher-student dynamic, where one party cannot consent on equal footing
you're not pretending an 18-year-old high school student is on equal footing with a teacher in power, are you?
i said what i said. you and your little sidekicks can take it up with the wall now. it's got more personality than this conversation
"You supplied the impropriety, the hidden intentions, the ethical scandal, and every dark implication entirely of your own accord. But then, people generally offer the world whatever they possess in greatest abundance within themselves ..."
if, as you posit, individuals externalize the contents of their inner minds and reservoirs, then your attribution to me of bitterness, closed-mindedness/dogmatism, and ill will confesses your own affective saturation with precisely those negative qualities
one does not perceive what one does not possess. one recognizes it, and in your case, the recognition appears not incidental. you did not disagree with me; you projected a pathology onto my judgement/narrative observation and transformed it into a full psycho-social autopsy of my character
the projection is not mine, it's yours
nothing, that is, except the barest standard of moral decency
romance presupposes mutuality, spontaneity, and freedom from coercion. none of these conditions can exist when one party has spent months or years in a position of institutional dominance and evaluative power over the other
the classroom is not a waiting room for future lovers. a teacher who waits for their student to age into legality/become legally consumable has already transgressed the ethical foundation of their role
are you implying that a non-platonic relationship between a high school student and a teacher/pedagogical authority figure is permissible?
a teacher is entrusted with the cultivation of virtue and discipline in their students. students place their trust in the teacher. to exploit that trust for personal or emotional gratification would be a breach of professional ethics
non-platonic teacher-student/adult-minor relationships have no legitimate basis in ethics, law, or developmental science
teacher-student/adult-minor relationships violate the categorical imperative by instrumentalizing a developing consciousness for ends external to its own flourishing and fulfillment
a minor or high school student exists within a state of institutional dependency. by virtue of their incomplete neurocognitive maturation, vulnerability, and heightened susceptibility to coercion, they'd be unequipped to provide informed consent or comprehend the long-term, irreversible consequences of intimate commitments. in contrast, an adult or teacher, equipped with developed executive functioning and years of experience, would occupy a position of consolidated cognitive and social power from which they'd impose their will upon the minor or high school student whose capacity for autonomous self-determination is not yet actualized. the minor or high school student would be exploited and treated as a means to adult or teacher gratification rather than as an end in themselves
i believe that no story should romanticize the predatory pursuit and grooming of a minor or high school student
the same species that mythologized the shadows under the bed now spends its nights nurturing and entertaining a far more real and calculating bogeyman. one wrong step, and everything might slip from our hands
each episode was my safe place and revealed to me the depth of teeteepor's genuine connection and love. there was an easy spark between them, you see. they were equals walking side by side and communicating in a language older than words themselves; one of lingering glances and shared breaths. their happiness didn't just play out on screen. it spilled over and touched me with a kind of warmth i hadn't known i was missing
my heartfelt gratitude goes to teeteepor and the production team for manifesting a work of art so human, gentle, and healing. the care they poured into it hasn't gone unnoticed. they've made a real difference in the world