author already confirmed to korean readers that she is A WOMAN , stop getting too confortable over spreading misformation about author's gender. Also you all throwing male gaze world at every thing nowadays
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the only thing i kinda like about this is how Na Haesoo was pretty physically ready to move on after the whole minsh8t situation lol alot of the male gale driven manhwas make the FL wait forever to move on physically to perserve innocence or some shii but my girl was ready LMAO
Calm down. I'm allowed to have opinions but I appreciate you educating me on the author's gender. I don't pay attention to their socials and don't know a thing about them.
I stand by my statement that there's parts of this does seem to draw from the male gaze. And FYI women can write from the male gaze too. So, maybe that's what this author is doing.
1. FL is regularly objectified and treated like and object. (Extremely skinny waist, emphasized chest, thigh gap)
2. FL doesn't seem to have much agency ATM and sort of exists as a prize/trophy for ML.
3. FL character arc is sort of minor compared to how she affects the male characters.
There's several more things I could list, but I don't want to be a snob about it.
The author is a woman and you're right.
Women and girls can partake to their oppression by appealing to patriarchy.
The author has lots of internalized misogyny and the way she draws her female characters is to indoctrinate women and girls to practise sexist, racist and pedo beauty standards to "enhance their beauty "
...you can tell a man wrote this. The male gaze is all over these characters and FL is written like a pitiful flower that needs a man to save her.
I'll see this through to the end of the series tho cause I enjoy trauma and crying.