So there’s been some comments about the FL being a weak female character. I disagree. You’re judging her based on the way society views strength as being masculine and feminity as weakness.
As much as I love stories where the FL wields a sword and takes down the men around her, that isn’t too different from writing a male character, putting a skirt on them and saying, “this is a strong female .” Women come in all types with different types of power and it’s refreshing to see a more feminine strong woman. Although these sorts of FL seem more docile than the typical strong female trope, she’s strong in the way of her mentality, conviction, and love.
For example, a mother who chooses to stay in an abusive relationship to protect her kids is just as strong as one who is able to take her kids and leave.
We need to stop looking at strength as something Purely physical but also internal because that’s where women shine.
Beautiful statement and I agree wholeheartedly
All of this!! I completely agree!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D8nRpJsQlk
Little Women - Marriage Is an Economic Proposition: Amy (Florence Pugh) explains her situation to Laurie (Timothée Chalamet).
A feminine conservative character who display internal strenghts and powers of self-assertion.
I'm glad that I sat and listen to your Tedtalk because PeriodT.
I love your TedTalk, sonic you excuse me, I would like to add more.
As you said, there is a tendency in these stories that a strong female woman needs to be a masculinised woman. What do I mean by masculinised? I mean, she needs to do the same the men in the manga do. If they wield swords, have magic, fight, be knights, or whatever, she will also do it, because she is a strong female lead.
If she ever does something femenine, she thinks that it does not suit her, that others will mock her for it because she is, basically, a masculinised woman, and, of course, being femenine or liking/doing femenine things doesn't suit her because she sees herself internal and subscoinciously as a man, not as a woman, and in these kind of historical settings, a man (even if it's a masculinised woman) being femenine is something to be mocked, because women are the "wrong, weaker sex that needs to be protected" (Sorry, I studied gender studies as an optative course in my degree and I love talking about these issues).
There are cases in real life in which queens, and I mean queens as they are the one who hold all the real power (coughcoughENGLANDcoughcough) had to make speeches for her army referring to themselves as if they were men, because a woman cannot lead am army, so they had to talk as if they were men.
Another thing to think about is that we see as strong the men who have an alternative masculinity in a world where their masculinity has to be the "I'll protect my woman because she is mine and I'm a strong alpha male who will fight you and drag my woman to my cave" one.as strong, but if they have this kind of masculinity, they are also strong, but if the female lead is not a masculinised woman, we see her as weak because she cannot do what the male lead can do, so I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
Don't get me wrong, I love all kinds of strong female leads from Pauline (The Female Knight and the Emperor) who is physically strong and a badass to Yeninica (or whatever her name was because it's strange, from Seduce the Villain's Father) who is not physically strong but a total badass nevertheless.
Preach sis
Preeaaachhhhh, and also to the one who added additional info! I didn’t read this yet but I already agree
Society needs to stop looking at things from a view that separates people into boxes. I’m not gonna go cuz I feel y’all did a wonderful job explaining!
yes! I agree! I found myself wondering if she's a strong female lead and she is! The way she'll do anything to protect the princess and go out of her way to make sure her fiancé grows up well shows her strength. (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Great ! Thanks for the link, we certainly forget how we still live in the shadows of this culture for many, and sadly still exactly there for many
Gret tedtalk too :)
The whole “my sister was murdered” storyline went no where. They threw it in as a shoddy excuse to kind of start a war but the one who started it had no convictions to go through with it meaning that they didn’t care THAT much about their sister’s death. Also the fact that that king is in love with his cousin feels like a slap in the face to the sister who was excited to get married to him.
Exactly why I rated it three stars. That storyline stuck out to me the most but it was a dead end...
Tbh, the whole war thing was pretty half-assed ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
Do we have a running count of how many times she’s cried because it might almost equal the amount of chapters.
yeah I was JUST thinking if we had a buck for every time she seesawed back and forth abt something we'd be making pretty good money on this. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
Where is the lie though?? He was legitimately teaching the guy how to have better sex! It’s not like they give teaching degrees on that. He was being a really good teacher too because look at that improvement
He hasn't even taken any money!!! So It wasn't like he was scamming him that way.
Yeah if I was in that situation I wouldn’t get angry Lol but let’s see how it goes
This.... this isn’t going to go well
I’m stressing
Also fuck Nick. The only thing he’s perfect at is being an ass
It’s the first time I’ve seen the comment section so united on the fact that the seme is a rape-y ass.
Nice art. Bland plot. Mediocre vanilla sex scenes considering that it’s a 3P. I started skimming through the sex scenes because they were all basically the same.
The two semes were basically the same person split into two. I didn’t bother remembering their names since they were so forgettable. I’ve been looking for a good healthy-ish poly relationship manga. I got it here but it was just... boring with so much contrived drama that was resolved so easily. And the stupidest misunderstandings dragged on for an unnecessarily long amount of time.
I found the Uke to be unlikeable. The author leaned into his trust issues so much that seemed to be all he had going for him. Not only that he is extremely hypocritical and jumps to the most idiotic conclusions—- as does everyone in this manhwa.
Three guys getting dinner?? omG hOw ScANDoLoS. Obviously they’re all going to bang—- Jesus Christ that was the stupidest scandal. And the Uke flipping his shit at them but no one bothered to point out that he went to a hotel room with another guy and was found asleep on the bed. Alone with another guy in the room who wants to bang him.
Also the last bit where the Uke faces off his ex?? He’s an actual idiot. Sure he wanted the recording but he should have had someone tracking his location at all times??? Also don’t get into the car of someone you don’t trust??? Seriously????
Also what was that dues ex machina shit where the semes found him in the forest just when things were starting to get a bit dangerous.
are there any good healthy poly relationship manwhas/mangas u can recommend pls
Honestly I don’t think there are any but...
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/choco_strawberry_vanilla/ This one has a healthy-ish end? The dynamics of the relationship are interesting. Art is good. Sex is hot.
Maybe the character will one day learn to treat women like equals but I’m not sticking around for this misogynistic outlook on women that’s thinly veiled as being fine since he’s a “woman” now. Dropping it.
Another romanticized rape to love manga with a lackluster plot. The smut was ok at best. 2/5 stars
Buu :) Personally I loved it ^^
Same(⌒▽⌒)