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Yes it won’t see the light of the day. Lots of stuff which would be called racist now. I read it when I was only 13, stealing the book from my mom. But that book leaves an impact. More than 20 years later I still remember it.

Yeah you are right. I am ok if the female lead is up to 10 years older and vice versa if male lead is upto 15 years older. Any more is a challenge. My only exception to this rule was reading Gone With the Wind, where Rhett Butler was about 20 years older, but I still liked it.

Is there a happy ending. I remember reading in dramabeans (a Korean drama recap site) three years ago and thought it was not?

Cool… I will give this a try. You are right though one has to be in the right mood.

How is this one? Is it too contrived… I have been putting off this drama since it feels a bit weird to me.. don’t know why

Agree 💯

I am also tired of Bollywood with zero acting, nepotism and regurgitating the same plots. I have not watched any movie in the past few years

It is an issue dude. But hopefully will become less issue in the near future. Even 5 years ago a lot more people would have complained about her age (30 percent) now it’s about 20 percent. So I do think this age gender issue is there but improving

What does the gender card mean? I follow both Bollywood and k drama world. Not a soul I mean not a single soul complained that Shahrukh khan was too old at 57 (nearing sixty that is) to dance around trees with a heroine 20 years younger than him.
Here she is supposed to be a plain Jane and this drama has been doing exceptionally well in South Korea and even then all people want to comment on is her age. It most certainly is a gender issue

We all know quite quitting right? I think the entire Korean entertainment industry is quiet quitting from the throes of their toxic fandom. Marriages being announced left, right and centre.
People ignorin whatever fans are saying and just going for it. To me it means that there will come a day when juvenile girls/boys will stop targeting the entertainment artists for their choice to exercise personal freedom of relationship. Almost every week we get new announcements and it’s a good sign. Which means ergo, less news of celebs suicide (fingers crossed) 2021 was especially bad.

I moved to the dark side into Finance. That’s where all cynical STEM people end up in. Good that you are STEM. Deep respect.

Have you even been in Chennai? Someone will hire a hitman for sure if you say anything about the Thalaivar 😄

Good to note that about your dad 👍. Mine kept working including for the Space Research Org. of our country, till his late sixties and then retired. He is in his early seventies.

Absolutely 💯. It’s genetics, health but it’s also mental too. If you keep telling a person (a woman for example at 50) you are too old, the person will stop trying and the prejudices get to you.
We see this Bollywood also na, Shahrukh Khan is still raking at the box office at 55, but none of his ladies are older than 40.
As a woman (I am one too), we face it all the time and worst part it sometimes from fellow women. Even women, I know will pick apart Aishwarya Rai saying “she looks old” and must be doing cosmetic surgeries, whilst praising all men including Rajnikanth (people don’t kill me here please). But he looks old in real life.

It’s sad indeed. I do weekend volunteer work with the elderly and they are unfortunately all women, many lonely but healthy and sharp witted. The society has no more use for them. They married older men (men die young anyways) and left bereaved. Some ladies tell me I am the first person they have talked to in days/weeks.
Younger women should stop discriminating against older women. If we don’t fight this prejudice we will one day be in the same position.

I have to comment on the ongoing age bias here the female lead is 50 not 70. Problem with life and society in general, is we underestimate how long women live especially when we are young. I am in my mid to late thirties and when I look around at least 50% of the women crowd is older than me. Every family I mean every family has grandmothers living until late 80s. We need to change this outdated way of thinking. One can’t be old right at 50 if one still has more than 35 years to go at least. This bias does not help anyone. So basically this bias means women are old for more than 50 years of their lives (age 35 and beyond) and adult only for 16 (18 until 34)? This is ridiculous

Yes they do you should have seen the comments on now we breaking up where people were slut shaming Song Hye Kyo

Not even My Ajusshi

The way he spoke French and the first scene in NWABU was too cringy. I dropped the drama right after the first episode. He is a big man (physically) so will be good in action oriented shows. I also liked come and hug me. Search WWW was good too. Netflix do a lot of gritty shows.

Did not know it was such a high number. My condolences.