Ooop close babe you signed UP to work you’re free to quit whenever. You are told your responsibilities and expectations at the beginning you either agree and take it or say no and don’t. Then you go through your first month of work and decide if it’s too much or if you’re happy with it. Dan CHOSE this he CONSENTED to this. You can’t call it exploitation. Dan worked a second job to pay for a luxury key chain he could have worked another job to pay debts. He gets a lot from J. MORE than what he asked for. J gave him a place to live paid off his grandmother’s hospital bills. NOWHERE in their agreement did it say he would be sweet loving and gental. CLEARLY you can’t handle this story maybe stop reading it
The fact you’re bringing slavery into a functional story makes me concerned for your mental well being. The slavery statement is a reach babe. I know you so BADLY want it to be soavery but it’s not lol. Slaves didn’t get a choice. They didn’t SIGN UP for that job title it was FORCED upon them ( by their own people I’ll add selling them to people all over the world) last I check Dan wasn’t forced into this role. Like you said it’s a job he went as far as to ask for MORE MONEY and J said okay well if you want that I want you whenever and wherever I want. Guess who agreed? If your answer is Dan ding ding ding knuckle head you’re right. ITS DAN he AGREED. I don’t see J tying him up against his will beating him drugging him etc like salves were treated. Please don’t equate a horrendous act to a FICTIONAL story. Dan can quit whenever slaves couldn’t. Learn and use the two brain cells that are trying so hard to spark before you speak.
I can handle this shittily written story just fine, thanks. Not sure if you guys could handle stories with more complex themes, though. Like I said, I just hope none of you ever end up in the situation Dan is in.
Unfortunately babe I wouldn’t be in his position because it’s not something I would personally AGREE and CONSENT to do like Dan did. He only quit cause he feels like he is causing problems for J. Weak. Kinda debunks your whole “ he needs the money he has no other option” he’s quitting just fine at the end so….
Did you know that there are fictional stories that depict various types of slavery? Should I not comment on it just because it’s fictional? Did you know there are fictional stories that depict the abuse of power by tyrannical governments? Should I not comment on it just because it’s fictional? Did you know that there are fictional stories that depict abuse? Should I not comment on it just because it’s fictional? Does this thing called “fiction” suddenly completely sever the connection between stories and real life? Or are fictional stories, which are often drawing from real life experiences, meant to have us reflect on our own real life?
You’re saying I should use my braincells—I’m the one trying to broaden this story and what it’s depicting outwards and consider some of its real world implications…because even the most fantastical stories have them. Dan is a sex worker and when I’m thinking about him I’m thinking about how his experience—and the rhetoric people are using to talk about it—maps out onto the VERY REAL experiences of sex workers and the very real way people talk about them and their work. Just the other day one of my students had made a similar argument as you did—about how sex workers shouldn’t do that type of work, that it’s not hard to just find another job, in the same breath as she mentioned how dangerous the work is. It’s like she didn’t exercise the slightest bit of empathy, or take into consideration the various extenuating factors playing into why it’s hard for people to find another type of work, or actually thinking of ways to make those workers safer. No, the dangerousness of the job is a given, and not something that can be fixed or changed—it’s all the workers’ faults if they’re abused on the job. You LITERALLY would not say something like this for any other job. You would not argue that people making minimum wage at Amazon deserve to be forced to work so long and with so poor facilities that they have to piss in bottles. I’m sure that kind of thing wasn’t part of their contract but it doesn’t make it any less abusive and wrong. Or, what, should Amazon be left to its own devices?
Me, several times: their agreement does not in and of itself constitute slavery, but there is an argument to be made for it and the way people are arguing about how the conditions of the contract works/should work is advocating for slavery-like conditions. Also, there are several types and definitions of slavery
You guys: you want this to be slavery SOOO BAD
It’s almost like he got some more money and was no longer in the crippling debt and poverty and near homelessness he had been at the beginning of the story…wow guys I cannot believe it but even this story follows the basic rules of storytelling where characters and their situations change over the course of the story. Incredible stuff.
But anyway your words precisely prove one of the many things that I’ve been hypothesizing about the people arguing this position—it’s coming from a place of total privilege and ignorance. You’re arguing like this because you cannot for a moment step outside of your own shoes or consider that one day you will be in those shoes yourself. Of course it’s so easy for you to say you just wouldn’t agree or consent to Jaekyung’s actions and behaviors. You’ve probably never had a hard day in your life. Or if you have it hasn’t taught you anything at all.
Y'all go on and ON about fiction and fictional stories and then absolutely refuse to engage with it. "Oh I personally wouldn't agree or consent to that." I don't think you know that for sure. I don't think you really know what you'd do if you found yourself on the brink of homelessness, working three jobs, deep in financial debt, and with a sick and dying grandmother in the hospital. I don't know what I'd do, either, honestly. But more than that it's not even about what you would personally do, it's about understanding how and why the character would do what they'd do and all the factors going into that decision.
Nah because I can't let this fucking go, can you please explain to me why you felt it was so important to bring up the idea that some enslaved people were sold into slavery "by their own people" really quick? I really really want to know why that was an important detail for you to add here. Speaking as a black person. What point were you trying to make there?
Bye
1. The art is GORGEOUS ( huge improvement from BL Alex)
2. Dan signed up for this.
You hate to see it but stuff like this happens in real life. It’s called being a sugar bb. Dan knew what he was getting himself into. He made a deal for MONEY no where in their contract did it say J has to be kind and loving. ( Obviously I want that and I wanna see him grovel ) but you guys forget yourselves. He is a big time athlete with an ego and money to burn. Dan is poor and in need of money. In fact are we just going forget that J paid off dans grandmothers hospital bills? For no add on or extra requirements from Dan? Did you also forget the part where Dan asked for MORE money a month and J said sure but in turn he wanted have Dan whenever and wherever and Dan AGREED? A deal is a deal. Is J a piece of poo? Yes. Is this story meant to get us riled up for him to have some crazy redemption arch? YES. If you hate reading it, then quit. Tired of you fools yapping and not understanding how things work. Pipe down and enjoy the BL or leave and quit hate reader.