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You weren't being anti-trans at all. There is no indication at all that he is trans - using female pronouns doesn't make you female. In any case he presents entirely as male and most women would not be comfortable with that. I support trans rights, but not when it impinges on women's rights. There's no easy answer to this - it really depends.

The word "trans" has always meant someone trans-itioning from one gender to another. Lately it's been expanded to include people who consider themselves gender non-comforming, when they're really gender-role non-conforming - and being stuck between genders is the last thing the vast majority of people with body dysmorphia would want. There's no reason a woman can't be butch and still be a woman or a man can't be effeminate and still be a man. That's how 99% of the world sees it and I don't think that's going to change, and I'm not sure it should.

Words matter and not liking definitions is a personal thing, but it's important not to push it to the point where you're depriving other people of rights, or taking attention away from people who are truly oppressed and need to be supported.

I think it was meant to be weird.

If they do really present, yes, but being a man that uses female pronouns isn't enough. A women's room is a woman's space, and they have a right to be able to be vulnerable and exposed without a man being present.

In Thailand, prior to the modern period, there was a Thonburi period, which was very short and just after the Ayutthaya kingdom, which was powerful and long-lived. The clothing everyone is wearing in this is late-Ayutthaya. The fictional kingdom in the series is called Thanapura, which is meant to evoke a real historical period. Both Thanapura and the place the main character is from are fictional versions of Thailand.

I love your username. I'm not clear on why the age gap is an issue. Yo is supposed to be 20, and Jom is 28-ish. That's not a disturbing age difference.

I'm not asking this to criticize you, I'm genuinely curious, because age gap issues come up a a lot. Why does it bother you in particular? Of all the things that can be considered "transgressive" in BL, this seems minor to me. Making ukes weak and useless equates feminine with weakness, which is misogynist and homophobic, but nobody cares about that, yet put in an age difference...

Not to be overly explicit, but my pants don't fit all throughout each episode. Especially because of Kim Hangeul.

You're welcome! I think sometimes people get way too invested in finding things trangressive rather than human. Being an adult doesn't mean your feelings and attractions go away, it means you control them, and being a teen means having all sorts of attractions that you don't completely understand.

A lot of people want 12 episodes of nothing but cute fluff, which I find pointless and boring. A drama needs, well, drama, right?

Romeo & Juliet is the most famous romance of all time and Romeo was 16-ish and Juliet was explicitly 13 (just shy of her 14th b-day). Shakespeare made them that young to underscore they were doomed because of immaturity and impulsive decision-making. But note that he had to make them that young because if they were 17 and 19 audiences of the time wouldn't have accepted that, because people that age should be mature and make more thoughtful decisions - which says something about our expectations of maturity today.

That's what's so disappointing - so many couples have fantastic chemistry in BTS, but not at all in the actual series. For me, the blame should go squarely on the director. If the actor have great chemistry on their own, then something that is not them is ruining it in the series.

I think some of it is the Thai BL obsession with ukes hating sex, which is beyond tiresome.

True - but I'd like to see Yod be more than a cartoon character. For example, why was being village chief so important to him?

Being fem isn't the issue - it's being fem in a totally passive way with zero agency and fainting constantly. That reduces the fem-ness to misogyny, because it's equating feminine with weak. Contrast that with Secret Crush on You, which had far more fem characters that were fully realized and did have agency and character arcs.

Maybe you should think about what you're reading and what you're saying before you say it - otherwise you risk your own credibility.

I love Yoonoh - these two have amazing sexual tension. This is my favorite thing airing right now.

This series is disappointing. It has all the ingredients it needs to be good, but it's been let down by the awful writing and the intimacy coach, who must be an undead sea creature. Either that or Saint and Poom hate touching each other.

The plot is and endless loop about cartoonish villains doing something cartoonishly villainous that makes no sense (why don't they go after the woman who is actually bidding on the land rather than a totally unrelated village chief?) except as a contrived plot device.

But the main problem is there is zero chemistry between the leads except insofar as Poom looks very, very good with his shirt off. This ep the kisses at the house were dead on purpose, but there's never any spark between them.

It's hard not to contrast with the straight storyline with Fluke, where I felt it completely in their first scene together.

That was just awful. But the cast makes it interesting enough that I want to watch.

The sheer number of inredibly long, slo-mo introductions, the painfully endless staring (I hit +10 seconds 5 times during the opening "punch stare", so it must have lasted about a minute), and flashbacks to the previous scene - add to that the incompetent direction and awful editing, and you have a hot mess.

But the four leads are appealing and are interesting pairings. Poor Lee Long Shi has never really gotten a good partner, but maybe this is the one.

Just to clarify, Episone 1 uncut verson is 56 minutes. A couple of people thought it was 1 hour & 56 minutes.

The uncut version isn't much more comprehensible. Everyone has super-long slo-mo intros but their names are never mentioned, and it was all over the place. But it's still better than any other series Lee Long Shi has been in. It's a low bar.

It's more "no burn" than slow burn.

But are you Southeast Asian? I would think natural selection would have wiped out anyone down there who couldn't tan a long time ago. Before the modern era, only nobles wore shirts and even then it was optional.

Only the uniform typically worn, at least on this particular ship.

Unpopular opinion (?): I would dump Tee for the Prince in a heartbeat. I thought Great was the one of the hottest guys I've ever seen as Inspector M, but other than his body in that tight uniform, I think his aloofness was a large part of his charm. Guy has the gravitas to pull off royalty.

But I'd definitely settle for Tee and not feel particularly deprived.

Also, am I the only one bothered by the hideously racist "brownface" they have Aou wearing? Jesus, it's not like he couldn't have just gotten a tan.

Note: Add "carry flowers" to the list of things an uke can't do without injury.