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I honestly find it hilarious when those tiktok puritans start fuming whenever people actually enjoy Tears on a Withered Flower. Their arguments are always the same tired thing like “She has big boobs while being skinny! It’s setting unrealistic standards for women!” Like……it’s smut ??? It’s literally meant to be exaggerated and over the top. Nobody’s cracking it open expecting a feminist manifesto or a realistic depiction of the female body. What makes it even funnier is that these are the same people reading josei or BL smut where the male leads have cocks longer than their arms and nobody bats an eye. Like they’re giggling over BL where the uke’s guts are getting rearranged by a dude with a third leg, and apparently that’s fine because it’s “empowering” or “fantasy.” But the moment a female character is conventionally sexy in josei smut? Suddenly it’s a moral crisis. The double standard is insane. I just don’t get it why can’t we josei fans enjoy our indulgent, messy, overdramatic smut without some self-righteous rat popping out of a hole to complain? Not everything needs to pass some moral purity test to be valid escapism. Let people enjoy things.
I’ve even seen a comment that the Manhwa contains rpe like ???? I’m just concluding at this point that people hating on it are just hopping on the hate train.