#possessive stereotypical men are not nuanced or complex... BUT BY JOVE THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXIST
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Reading the spoilers of otome light novels always be like, "Wow, people really hate men."
#rambles#I KNOW I COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS A LOT OKAY LEAVE ME ALONE#I JUST...........#NUANCE#PEOPLE HATE NUANCE AND IT SUCKS#PEOPLE HATE COMPLEXITY#AND MOSTLY#people hate stereotypical tropey men that are specifically written that way for the trope#'i hate how possessive and dismissive he is of mc!!!'#it's the same level of idiocy as going to the circus and being mad at the clowns#if you want to read a story about the perfect politically correct male lead find some chronically online girl's book on tiktok#like look okay let me be honest here#when i go to isekai manhwa as my medium of entertainment choice i embody those middle aged women reading smutty novels abt guys named knut#i don't go in expecting quality okay i'm not an idiot#i go in expecting a specific fix to be filled#and if that specific fix is a possessive dismissive male lead then by the almighty god himself one must do as one must#now let me be clear like.... i am complaining about two things here#one: readers don't like nuanced complex men#two: readers do not like genre-specific stereotypical men#these two things are not the same okay#possessive stereotypical men are not nuanced or complex... BUT BY JOVE THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXIST#SHITTY STEREOTYPICAL MEN ARE JUST AS ENJOYABLE AS NUANCED AND COMPLEX MEN#it's so funny that people go into otome manhwa expecting q u a l i t y#this is the modern woman's equivalent of those trashy novels our grandmothers read#we are no better than them#i really just want to go into reading spoilers where everyone is on the same page of 'okay so we all just have terrible taste amiright'#tho tbh writing all of this i should be more forgiving of people that love crappy reader-inserts on this website#but lmao no i am not i have way better taste than they ever will whoops u//w//u
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