#but hey maybe I am just obnoxious with my adoration and whatnot for girl groups and female characters

[unnursvanablog]

do you ever just go to a kdrama meetups and events irl (they are hard to come by) and the people there talk about that they isn’t enough strong female characters and you are just sitting there going all ????? because a). you can easily do a week worth of dedicated posts about some of the amazing female characters in kdramas and their complexity despite how often their genres and the society they are written for wants to put them in a box on your blog. But also b). you hate the term ‘strong female character’ because we never talk about male characters that way. They are just interesting or not. And that’s also what female characters should be. Interesting and complex with agency in stories. And they often get sidelined in the stories... but also from the largely female audience of those shows who don’t really care as much about them as the hot male lead. And there is such a strong need for female characters to be likeable no matter what which can hinder them from truly being too complex, while we can watch the same asshole architype in male characters but are just misunderstood and interesting.

also as a writer who has been told more than once that a female character of mine is just not likeable enough and I should fix that, this annoys me. Fuck strong female characters, that does not make them interesting and being stoic  instead of emotional isn't necessarily better, and fuck making all female characters so likeable that they can't do anything. Make them complex, flawed and unlikeable, even if it makes the audience agitated because the female character isn't likeable or sidelined for the sake of everyone's else’s stories or so the audience can insert themselves into them, as a blank slate. 

The writer can lay the groundwork for why the female character is acting the way she is, but the audience will complain that she is being mean to the cute male lead. It’s a bit more complex and complicated than just ‘kdramas don’t have enough strong characters’ that needs to be examined. Like the bias of the audience and the expectations that the wants of the audience have molded over the years. 

But you don’t say anything, because you are non-confrontational and don’t want to speak over the people who are actually speaking and this level of public speaking makes you anxious. 

#kdrama rant #but hey... that person had also been into kpop since 2016 and didn't really listen to ANY girl groups #which honestly is a red flag for me at this point #I can understand not being as into female pop or whatever #but not really enjoy any kpop girl group or just never bothering to look into any of them #I am a girl group stan... but it's not like I don't enjoy certain songs by txt or exo or winner or heaps of other kpop bgs #I am sorry but I don't think you could be into like... american popmusic and not really like any female singer #but hey maybe I am just obnoxious with my adoration and whatnot for girl groups and female characters #some of you just consume korean content for the cute men and it so very shows and honestly I sometimes get very tired of it #but of course it's more complex and varied than that as well #and it's not just korean media... but just all media