This actually makes a ton of sense. I'm totally more open to this being the case than hatred/dislike for Garam sight unseen. It also makes me feel better about this being the season finale and having to wait a while for the outcome.
That is the vibe I got with her lil dialogue box at the end yeah- it doesn't seem out of homophobia
that's exactly what i was thinking too!
My thoughts exactly. It’s not so much “my son can’t date a man” and more like “my son can’t ruin the life of this poor kid because he’s bored with women now”
this is already pretty much confirmed from the entire conflict between Jaehyuk and Shin-Joo when she found out Garam was a guy, it wasn’t because he is a guy it was because of Jaehyuk’s insane track record of being an asshole before having the 180° of character development thanks to Garam
I think parents with rebellious sons who have a reputation for whoring around with girls would be reasonably shocked that their son is dating a guy and probably attribute it to being even more of an ass.
I feel like if jaehyuk’s mom sees how hardworking garam is and how serious he is about jaehyuk (guy is literally buying rings that cost as much as wedding ones rn) she’ll probably either approve of him or feel sorry for him because she genuinely would think jaehyuk is hoodwinking the guy.
I think it’s less homophobia and more ‘this dude is ruining his life and he’s probably wasting this other guy’s time as a sort of statement’. Atleast I hope that’s the case. Has less to do with garam and more to do with jaehyuk’s mom not having a good opinion of her reckless son. (Without the context of seeing her son go from a homophobic straight dick to a lovesick bisexual househusband (like the readers did) it’s hard to just look at her son spending money on an renting an apartment and think it’s a good financial decision, especially because he was made to join the hostel to fix his spending habit in the first place iirc).