well yea if the roles were reversed it would be even shittier. but thats not double standards, thats the reality of our patriarcal society. the roles reversed would be a realistic story as s€x workers are immensely mostly women and live through that every day. a fiction work depicting the opposite can be seen as bad but you can't put it in the same picture as the reality of women s workers. this is fiction even tho i bet there are some rare cases of male s€x workers like that, we still live in a women-murdering society. so don't say "if the roles were reversed", it doesnt make any sense as the roles arent reversed irl and will never be. this rethoric of "if the roles were reversed" is a widely misogynistic use by men, but the roles arent reversed for us so therefore u can not compare it to our reality.
Interesting how “context” only matters when it’s used to excuse one gender. Assault doesn’t switch definitions. And nobody is comparing it to real life. If it happened in another fictional story where the male lead did the same thing to female lead, people would definitely give him the hate he deserves. But in this story people are supporting the fl for what reason? If behavior is condemned when a man does it, it shouldn’t be praised when a woman does it either. Consistency isn’t misogyny, it’s basic accountability.
what you’re saying is actually very dumb. context only matters with one gender? how. the context is that one gender is oppressed and killed. you’re basically saying if we were talking about racism "booohoo white life matters too, human rights only matter with one race uh" well yea because only one is missing them. just like women. men enduring sexual abuse and violence is small compared to women and even then, the sexual abuse men live is mostly inflicted by other men. so yes you are misogynistic
What you are saying is not so wise either. Just because women suffer from it mostly doesn’t mean we should celebrate when a man is victimized. My whole point was to hate sexual assault. I Don't understand where is all that real life example is coming from. This is fiction so stop comparing it to real life. I never once compared it to real life. Use your brain, sadly looks like it is full of dog shit. And do you even understand the concept of misogynist? Hating a woman for assaulting a man does not make me misogynistic. It is not misogyny it is basic empathy. Supporting a rapist just because that is a woman doesn’t make you greatest of all time. I Didn't even say anything about hating women. So where is misogyny coming from. You’re not arguing ethics, you’re arguing excuses. If assault only matters when it fits your politics, you don’t have morals
You said people would give hate to MLs that he deserves and that is where you're wrong. That kind of character might receive some comments but it's always drowned by fangirls wetting their panties over him because those stories are often portrayed with rose colored glasses and heavily romanticized. Let's not act dense and pretend that people STILL in the big 2026 eat up those "hot zaddy CEO chaebol ML who non cons the FL but it's painted in a romantic lense so people dgaf"
The abuse(physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) against FICTIONAL female characters(let alone real women) is so fking normalized people brush it off or roll their eyes calling it a cliche.
I know for fact that if rosa and her mother were men, people would eat them up. People would've LOVED if it was a sexy old rich man and his hot son vying for the same woman. Nobody would bat an eye if those two men were sadistic and the FL was a masochist secretly wanting it
Masochism is so normalized for female characters(and women irl) that when there's a male masochist with a female sadist(not another male sadist like in bl) people are so quick to clutch their pearls, giving statements about how this is so wrong
Eh what??? From what I know, in many fictional stories MLs got hate from doing less than Rosa did bruh. Do you even read other manhwas? Yall's point is so dumb. Like I am so fucking tired, grow the fuck up. Yall just some weirdos trying to find some weird ass logic to defend this rapist of a FL. The MLs who are like that deserves a LOT of hate, only a few sick fucks simps over them. But you will barely see hate comments under this story and trust me it IS because the roles are reversed. People do not hate on her enough. Even if some people do, they get attacked by her so called fans

If the roles were reversed, people would call him rapist and not 'strong baddie ml' btw