Dex-chan lover
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@maddery, right, so like, when you write a response which says this character who basically everyone agrees has very reasonable needs wrt intimacy and affection is clearly a sex addict, that sounds less like a critique of the manga, and more like you have issues surrounding women and sexual expression.
You yourself have said that its as though the author has written the two spouses as intentionally unsympathetic, so why wouldn't you just make that your main critique? Just say that they feel like caricatures meant to justify infidelity, instead of trying to say that, actually, its the main character who's the villain, because wanting to have sex any time in a two year time frame means that you're mentally ill. Like you can totally critique the writing! but if you try to twist the text to do that it makes you look silly and sort of backwards. You can say that cheating is indefensible under any circumstances, like people will disagree but you can say that! you can say that you feel like this manga is cheating propaganda or whatever, but acting like someone is actually mentally ill for wanting to have a marriage where they're intimate with their spouse, when they're shown trying to communicate with their spouse to that end to no avail isn't really a reasonable critique of the text or even cheating itself
You yourself have said that its as though the author has written the two spouses as intentionally unsympathetic, so why wouldn't you just make that your main critique? Just say that they feel like caricatures meant to justify infidelity, instead of trying to say that, actually, its the main character who's the villain, because wanting to have sex any time in a two year time frame means that you're mentally ill. Like you can totally critique the writing! but if you try to twist the text to do that it makes you look silly and sort of backwards. You can say that cheating is indefensible under any circumstances, like people will disagree but you can say that! you can say that you feel like this manga is cheating propaganda or whatever, but acting like someone is actually mentally ill for wanting to have a marriage where they're intimate with their spouse, when they're shown trying to communicate with their spouse to that end to no avail isn't really a reasonable critique of the text or even cheating itself