Questionable premise. What kind of creep goes on asexual dating websites to lie about being ace and pick up ace women? Bro they're on an ace dating site to avoid people like you!
And his reason to go there is that he doesn't want a serious relationship? So a romantic relationship without sex is inherently less serious? She's not aromantic. She very much wants a serious romantic relationship.
Really hope they don't end up together, but I guess they will since this is a romance drama.
What do you mean about the transition being forced? I didn't see hints towards that happening in the trailer.…
People tell the wildest stories haha. It really should've been up to the press to do better fact checking, but I guess it was a lucrative viral story so they opted not to haha. But yeah am glad it doesn't seem real at all. :)
But I'm going to be real, that sounds very fake. It sounds like this person did want the SRS but then didn't know how to tell their parents and made up this story about being forced into it. The hospital staff involved in this case (which necessarily has to be a lot of people) say they have video evidence of the patient in question expressing their desire for SRS which they will present in court, and they're being backed by the hospital chief.
I really don't see why that many professionals would all conspire together to remove the genitals of one stranger, just because an abusive partner asked them to? Why would they all risk losing their license and going to jail for this? How would they even hope to hide their misdeeds, since the evidence is so obvious? What motive could they have to take that gigantic amount of risk?
The patient claims it was done because of organ trafficking, but I don't see how that makes any sense, since during vaginoplasty a penis doesn't just get chopped off, it gets turned inside out to create a neovagina. So what's left to traffic? I think it's a very far-fetched theory, sorry. If this was about organ trafficking, wouldn't it have been easier to kill the patient for more organs, and so that the patient couldn't go around and complain to the press? Or at least to take a more logical organ, that more donor recipients are on waiting lists for?
The patient's story also changes from news story to news story. In some of the stories they were lured to their friend/partner/abuser's apartment and drugged and operated on then and there, woke up in the apartment and immediately called their parents to get them to call the hospital asap. In other news articles the patient was instead lured to the hospital for some phony health procedure and operated on in the hospital. Neither of these sound remotely likely to me.
I have to call BS. But it's a sensational story for sure. Makes sense that it would go viral and leave lasting impressions on people.
If forced srs by drugging people were a thing that happened, then that would be really fucked up though, like holy heck that's evil, definitely agree there!
Based on the comments I read below, I have a personal rant of my own! As a trans individual myself, I have incredibly…
What do you mean about the transition being forced? I didn't see hints towards that happening in the trailer.
Did you also mean to say that's a thing that happens in real life? Because I don't think real people get forced into medically transitioning, unless we're talking about nonconsensual normalising surgeries on intersex infants, but that doesn't seem relevant here.
I really hope you didn't mean to say that gender transition is always forced and tragic and heteronormative when it happens. I don't think you meant that, but based on the wording I'm also not 100% sure. But I probably am just being a bit dense.
when i watched the trailer of this series, i thought that the junior’s character was k¡lled and he was reborn…
Am trans but not transfem. If they change the plot so that namtan's character had deep-seated repressed trans feelings before the whole revenge and getting injured - thing, then it's a very cautious maybe from me.
But honestly the fact that they've connected gender transition so closely to deceit and malice is kind of unforgivably transphobic. That's the exact misconception that hurts IRL trans people most (it leads to physical violence towards trans women). Transition isn't deceit, it's finally outwardly being who you actually were all along. It's finally being honest.
The fact that they didn't hire a trans actress is then just the cherry on top. But I guess it's good they went with a cis woman rather than a cis man. It could've been worse.
Having a trans woman as a main role, with a romantic partner, could be positively revolutionary if handled well, but it does not look like it's being handled well. Right now I'm not sure there is a way to salvage this plot, because transition as deceit is kind of its central premise.
Anyways for anyone looking for good Thai trans stories I recommend 'Saneha Kap Cheevit' and 'The Iron Ladies'. (And I also want to plug 'Marahuyo Project' because aaaah ❤️!)
Did those reasons to transition include y'know, actually being trans? Or were they all external/circumstantial…
I'm anxious about this one and do not have the blind trust in gmmtv that you do, or in the writer, because I don't know who they are. If p'aof was directing this I'd trust him to make sure the topic was handled with the care it needs.
But I will (anxiously) suspend judgement until more is known.
An outdated transphobic theory called 'autogynephilia', which posits that trans women transition because being a woman turns them on. Some real shite thought up by some real shite humans. YouTuber ContraPoints has a video essay deep dive on it.
Really reminds me of 'I Will Knock You', where there's also a drama-obsessed gangster with a scary exterior but a goofy and soft interior paired with a regular guy.
Well now we know why BL/GL studios tend to rely on pre-written novels to adapt to a visual medium. They're definitely good at making it look pretty, but the expertise needed for writing a strong plot isn't necessarily there.
I did enjoy this. Especially the beginning was adorable, and watching women beat up creeps is also a thing I enjoy. But yeah no it's not very good on the whole. I guess this proves that GL doesn't always need to be good for me to enjoy it lol.
But I think if this had been cut down to 6 or 8 episodes, with some plotlines that weren't really connected well to the rest of the plot removed, like the illness, it could've been pretty good.
Think it's a bunch of lesbians, too! I can't tell you the number of people fighting for their lives on SM trying…
Idk I dropped Poisonous Love too, but I don't see the point of fandom wars. Increasing the amount of judgement and hostility within a fandom is going to bite everyone in the ass eventually, because it's going to make everyone defensive, and when people are defensive they become very mean and uncommunicative. And then you get a vicious cycle of two sides of a debate getting meaner and meaner to each other. I'd personally really prefer to avoid that.
My personal preference is 100% with shows like Love Design, Queendom and Somewhere Somehow, rather than shows like Denied Love, Poisonous Love and Dangerous Queen, but I think both types of shows could coexist without much trouble.
Contrapoints has a really good video essay dissecting Twilight and 50 Shades that dives into why some women like fictional sexual harassers who don't take no for an answer, and why that doesn't translate into liking them in real life.
According to conservative societal norms women aren't supposed to have sexual desires because that's supposedly indecent and impure and unfeminine. Women are supposed to be the gatekeepers to sex and say no to it all the time. Having a hot fictional love interest do sexual things to the self-insert main character regardless of how much the main character dutifully resists it means the self-insert character gets absolved from responsibility and blame. She gets to have the hot fictional love interest without the 'indecency' of having to have/act on her own sexual desires. It's an 'Oh no I guess I have no choice but to enjoy this, oh well :)' -type thing.
Is that healthy? Nope. But society fucked all of us up in subtle or not so subtle ways and I can't really blame them for the patriarchal nonsense they were subjected to. Engaging in sexuality by watching shows like this might be a stepping stone towards accepting that they do have (sapphic) sexual desires and that that's okay, actually. Telling them it's morally wrong for them to like the shows they like hooks into the exact same societal shaming they might already feel over having sexual desires, so it has a lot of potential to make things worse. Idk everyone is on their own weird and unique journey in accepting themselves and it's kind of none of my business what theirs looks like. It's probably best to give them the time and space they need to unpack their business and grow. That kind of introspection and healing can only be done when feeling calm and safe, and not when feeling defensive and judged. People poking and prodding and judging and pathologizing sure never helped me get any closer to self-acceptance and healing. Quite the opposite.
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And his reason to go there is that he doesn't want a serious relationship? So a romantic relationship without sex is inherently less serious? She's not aromantic. She very much wants a serious romantic relationship.
Really hope they don't end up together, but I guess they will since this is a romance drama.
I went to Google and found the case you're talking about https://www.news18.com/india/god-will-never-forgive-him-up-man-who-was-forced-to-undergo-sex-change-surgery-tells-his-tale-8942881.html
But I'm going to be real, that sounds very fake. It sounds like this person did want the SRS but then didn't know how to tell their parents and made up this story about being forced into it. The hospital staff involved in this case (which necessarily has to be a lot of people) say they have video evidence of the patient in question expressing their desire for SRS which they will present in court, and they're being backed by the hospital chief.
I really don't see why that many professionals would all conspire together to remove the genitals of one stranger, just because an abusive partner asked them to? Why would they all risk losing their license and going to jail for this? How would they even hope to hide their misdeeds, since the evidence is so obvious? What motive could they have to take that gigantic amount of risk?
The patient claims it was done because of organ trafficking, but I don't see how that makes any sense, since during vaginoplasty a penis doesn't just get chopped off, it gets turned inside out to create a neovagina. So what's left to traffic? I think it's a very far-fetched theory, sorry. If this was about organ trafficking, wouldn't it have been easier to kill the patient for more organs, and so that the patient couldn't go around and complain to the press? Or at least to take a more logical organ, that more donor recipients are on waiting lists for?
The patient's story also changes from news story to news story. In some of the stories they were lured to their friend/partner/abuser's apartment and drugged and operated on then and there, woke up in the apartment and immediately called their parents to get them to call the hospital asap. In other news articles the patient was instead lured to the hospital for some phony health procedure and operated on in the hospital. Neither of these sound remotely likely to me.
I have to call BS. But it's a sensational story for sure. Makes sense that it would go viral and leave lasting impressions on people.
If forced srs by drugging people were a thing that happened, then that would be really fucked up though, like holy heck that's evil, definitely agree there!
Did you also mean to say that's a thing that happens in real life? Because I don't think real people get forced into medically transitioning, unless we're talking about nonconsensual normalising surgeries on intersex infants, but that doesn't seem relevant here.
I really hope you didn't mean to say that gender transition is always forced and tragic and heteronormative when it happens. I don't think you meant that, but based on the wording I'm also not 100% sure. But I probably am just being a bit dense.
But honestly the fact that they've connected gender transition so closely to deceit and malice is kind of unforgivably transphobic. That's the exact misconception that hurts IRL trans people most (it leads to physical violence towards trans women). Transition isn't deceit, it's finally outwardly being who you actually were all along. It's finally being honest.
The fact that they didn't hire a trans actress is then just the cherry on top. But I guess it's good they went with a cis woman rather than a cis man. It could've been worse.
Having a trans woman as a main role, with a romantic partner, could be positively revolutionary if handled well, but it does not look like it's being handled well. Right now I'm not sure there is a way to salvage this plot, because transition as deceit is kind of its central premise.
Anyways for anyone looking for good Thai trans stories I recommend 'Saneha Kap Cheevit' and 'The Iron Ladies'. (And I also want to plug 'Marahuyo Project' because aaaah ❤️!)
But I will (anxiously) suspend judgement until more is known.
But I am intrigued as to why that's the one you recommend to everyone?
I did enjoy this. Especially the beginning was adorable, and watching women beat up creeps is also a thing I enjoy. But yeah no it's not very good on the whole. I guess this proves that GL doesn't always need to be good for me to enjoy it lol.
But I think if this had been cut down to 6 or 8 episodes, with some plotlines that weren't really connected well to the rest of the plot removed, like the illness, it could've been pretty good.
This series really is good though, still try it!
My personal preference is 100% with shows like Love Design, Queendom and Somewhere Somehow, rather than shows like Denied Love, Poisonous Love and Dangerous Queen, but I think both types of shows could coexist without much trouble.
Contrapoints has a really good video essay dissecting Twilight and 50 Shades that dives into why some women like fictional sexual harassers who don't take no for an answer, and why that doesn't translate into liking them in real life.
According to conservative societal norms women aren't supposed to have sexual desires because that's supposedly indecent and impure and unfeminine. Women are supposed to be the gatekeepers to sex and say no to it all the time. Having a hot fictional love interest do sexual things to the self-insert main character regardless of how much the main character dutifully resists it means the self-insert character gets absolved from responsibility and blame. She gets to have the hot fictional love interest without the 'indecency' of having to have/act on her own sexual desires. It's an 'Oh no I guess I have no choice but to enjoy this, oh well :)' -type thing.
Is that healthy? Nope. But society fucked all of us up in subtle or not so subtle ways and I can't really blame them for the patriarchal nonsense they were subjected to. Engaging in sexuality by watching shows like this might be a stepping stone towards accepting that they do have (sapphic) sexual desires and that that's okay, actually. Telling them it's morally wrong for them to like the shows they like hooks into the exact same societal shaming they might already feel over having sexual desires, so it has a lot of potential to make things worse. Idk everyone is on their own weird and unique journey in accepting themselves and it's kind of none of my business what theirs looks like. It's probably best to give them the time and space they need to unpack their business and grow. That kind of introspection and healing can only be done when feeling calm and safe, and not when feeling defensive and judged. People poking and prodding and judging and pathologizing sure never helped me get any closer to self-acceptance and healing. Quite the opposite.