[ SECRET POST #6974 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6974⌋

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I enjoy my share of Cdramas and Kdramas but whenever I feel a mood to venture into a fandom for one I am always starkly reminded about how differently I'm viewing the show vs most of the other fans. Because I usually love the female lead only to go find out that the rest of the fandom tolerates her at best and are obsessed with the male lead in a way I just don't resonate with.

We can all approach fandom and do what we like etc, but I rarely engage with these fandoms for the above reason.

[bannedbookweek]

They're full of teenagers I think and that's why...but yeah it's bonkers. Like holy shit yall female characters are not satan

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, this feels like a fandom thing in general. I do NOT watch Cdramas or Kdramas, but every fandom I've been in has hated the female characters for one reason or another, even when they're really wonderfully-written female characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Or it's very shallow 'adoration' of the female characters until they do something other than blindly agree with the fandom fave guy and then she's the worst harpy ever who should die.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh word OP.

I remember a several years back when I first got into Kdramas I thought to dip into the fandom to see a general consensus and to see other people's thoughts, queue seeing nothing but complaints about the female lead being 'mean' or 'rude' towards the male lead, or her being boring or just irritating in general, often while the male lead is also no bag of delights himself yet his behaviour was being justified or excused or even just out right ignored as bad because he was hot.

Really put me off engaging with those fandoms and for a long time now I've watched the shows by myself and don't go seek out fan opinion. I at most delve into the tumblr tags for gifsets but leave it at that because I know most of the posts are going to be ranting at how 'bad' the female lead is.

There are a few exceptions with these fandoms but they have been very rare.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m the same way. I usually love the female lead in KDramas and I wouldn’t watch the show if I didn’t like her, so hating on her just confuses me.

[(Anonymous)]

It probably depends on what show is in question, but... I watch cdramas semi-regularly and find a lot of cool female characters but I frequently end up a bit disappointed because the writing doesn't seem to realize their full potential. Very frustrating.

But I digress, sorry! I do see a lot of weird female lead hatred, especially if there's any kind of m/m element to the cdrama. I chalk that up to an unfortunate internalized misogyny and self-loathing, and fans being too immature to realize that you can admire character A or ship two men without crapping all over every women in the vicinity. A tale as old as time, really.

[(Anonymous)]

This is my main problem with cdramas too, honestly. The only one I've found that I felt thoroughly subverted that issue was Nirvana in Fire. All of the female characters in that are fantastic and really fleshed out.

[(Anonymous)]

Nirvana in Fire is a gem, and it stands out from most cdramas for many reasons. You're right about the female characters. It's a shame that more cdramas aren't more like NiF for that, and many other reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

oh i'm so the opposite for these fandoms as well, to the point that if i find the male lead insufferable i drop the show. the writing for men on tv bugs me so much more than women 9/10 because so many of them are dripping with sexist behaviours that seemingly the entire fanbase is ignoring.

but sure the woman at the center of the show is whiny and annoying. 🙄

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't been into cdramas/kdramas in a while but the lack of interest/hostility toward the female leads from other watchers were a little difficult to navigate.