[ SECRET POST #6515 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6515 ⌋

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[All the Birds in the Sky]



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Comments

Re: Petty things that make you give up on a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

This is a common cdrama thing, but it's not uncommon for the female lead (who might be in her 20s-late 30s) to play both the youthful teenage version of themselves as well as the adult version. This is... ehhh. A little strain on the credibility sometimes. But what makes it worse is that sometimes the teenage character is portrayed like a five year old: high pitched voice, baby talk, exaggerated pouting, stomping around and crying (like literally, "Weeeehhhhhhhhhh!!!!") if something goes wrong, melodramatically clinging to someone's sleeve, arm or leg while wailing like a toddler, showing a toddler-level of rationality and impulse control, etc. etc. I mean, come on. What 16-17 year old have you seen act like this unless they've got serious social adjustment issues?

This is played like it's cute, and it's often the male lead who takes on the adult role of pacifying the female lead, comforting her with candy or whatever. Cdramas have a weird infantilization issue going on with box men and women, but it's waaaay more common in female characters. It doesn't bother a lot of people, but I really hate it and will backbutton out of a show where the FL does this.

Re: Petty things that make you give up on a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry if it's a dumb question, but what are box men and women? I'm not into cdramas but this term is intriguing me for some reason.

Re: Petty things that make you give up on a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, sorry about that... I meant BOTH men and women. I don't know where "box" came from.

Re: Petty things that make you give up on a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Ooooof, yes. Even the actual adult female characters (adult as in, sometimes they're hundreds, if not thousands of years old) are like that sometimes.
It has made me very picky with my dramas in the sense, that if I sense that romance is the main plot, I'll likely not watch it. There needs to be something else going on, then it's usually okay.

Re: Petty things that make you give up on a piece of media?

[(Anonymous)]

Same, nonny. It's so annoying because it's so unnecessary, and I side eye people who defend it by trying to say that's legit for a teenager (WTF?) or that the character is supposed to seem young. Uh, you can "seem young" without acting like you're five. There's a much wider range between toddler and adult behavior than people are acknowledging here, and FLs should really aim for the upper teen portion of the spectrum rather than wailing and pouting.

It's so embarrassing to watch and gives me the ick that anyone thinks that's cute. But then, cdramas have a weird angle on infantilisation being part of a romance trope. It makes me really reluctant to watch cdramas that are mostly romance. I avoid xianxia like the plague.