IT'S LIKE, I GET THAT HE'S LIKEABLE AND HIS ARC IS AT TIMES INTERESTING, but man he is so far from the most interesting character on that show!
Ahhh asian dramas! Yeah I've only watched a couple (and they were all kdramas, I haven't seen any Japanese/Taiwanese dramas so idk if this applies to them) but that is like a whole new level of gender discussion, I have a lot of trouble getting through a lot of them because the way a lot of the males are portrayed: usually the lead is really controlling/physically dominating. I get that they're often going for a love/hate kind of thing but sometimes it just kind of feels like borderline abusive behavior? And yeah a lot of the girls fit into those same two stereotypes (with the ex-girlfriends especially it's like a lot of the time they can't even be BOTHERED to make them two-dimensional). (Lol my favorite drama is SO SO TERRIBLE in so many ways but the reason I liked it so much is because it didn't play into those tropes at all.) Anyway that was a really good thing to bring up, dramas really good example because they do tend to present the same women over and over and that's ultimately the problem: what we need is a greater variety of women in all kinds of fiction. Strong girls, weak girls, girly girls, tomboys: everything. It's just hard when there's this general judgment we extend to any girl who doesn't fit the exact pattern of what "feminism" is or should be. We need to get over that!
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Ahhh asian dramas! Yeah I've only watched a couple (and they were all kdramas, I haven't seen any Japanese/Taiwanese dramas so idk if this applies to them) but that is like a whole new level of gender discussion, I have a lot of trouble getting through a lot of them because the way a lot of the males are portrayed: usually the lead is really controlling/physically dominating. I get that they're often going for a love/hate kind of thing but sometimes it just kind of feels like borderline abusive behavior? And yeah a lot of the girls fit into those same two stereotypes (with the ex-girlfriends especially it's like a lot of the time they can't even be BOTHERED to make them two-dimensional). (Lol my favorite drama is SO SO TERRIBLE in so many ways but the reason I liked it so much is because it didn't play into those tropes at all.) Anyway that was a really good thing to bring up, dramas really good example because they do tend to present the same women over and over and that's ultimately the problem: what we need is a greater variety of women in all kinds of fiction. Strong girls, weak girls, girly girls, tomboys: everything. It's just hard when there's this general judgment we extend to any girl who doesn't fit the exact pattern of what "feminism" is or should be. We need to get over that!