At no point did I defend Morae or imply that what she is doing isn't wrong. I'm calling out the hypocrisy of people in the comments calling for the sister to get hit by a tuck, or violently hurt in some shape or form, whilst having no smoke for the husband at best- or at worst- coddling his grown man actions with "he is just naive". I swear people will defend a man's heinous actions if he pretends to be unaware of what he is doing, aka weaponized incompetence. At the same time, people will defend the heinous actions of a man if he is self-aware, because "at least he is being honest". That same mindset isn't extended to female characters, no matter if the story frames their actions as right or wrong. Compelling female villains are treated with vitriol whilst male villains aren't. How is that not misogyny? And that's ignoring the people calling her slurs like bitch. Also, you state that I'm "using" misogyny "to further my argument" (whatever that means) isn't cute. If I see misogyny, I will call it out.
You reasoning that Jinju's husband's actions are morally grey, in comparison to Morae's, because he put the supposed financial wellbeing of some, literal, random male, over a woman he's been married to for at least a decade- who gave up the security net of her parents and wealth that came with them, to be with him, only for him to abandon her when times get rough (due to his own actions) leaving her to be taken care of by a borderline rapist and her villainous sister, makes him come off more degenerate than Morae. (especially since his actions are being justified as "he just didn't know any better")
And "catty"? When was Morae ever "catty"? I'm sorry, but I dislike that term being used toward female characters who dare be anything, but nice. The funny thing is, Moare is literally a kid compared to Jinju's husband (I believe Doyeon is older than her) yet he's the one who gets coddled because he comes off as "sincere". (in fucking over his wife lmao, he was looking out for every (male it seems) but his wife)
WOAAH!
I’m going to assume that you’re a woman, or AFAB; I’m a woman myself, and one of color no less, so I know very well how the patriarchy, and in turn misogyny, is skewed, lol. The reason why I’m telling you to not use misogyny to support the idea that people hating on Morae is because…misogyny isn’t hating a character that happens to be female. Saying shit like that only takes away from real misogyny? 😭😭😭 Of course people are gonna hate Morae — because she’s a VILLAIN! Not because she’s a woman!
The people in this thread hate Gunwoo. I literally went into the comments of the chapter where he was floating around Doyeon expecting at least one (1) comment laughing at his singlemindedness but no, everyone talking about him was either calling him pathetic or telling him to fuck off.
You can check for yourself.
Jinju’s husband receives no less name calling than Morae? 😭 Just go back a few pages in the comments, lit rally everyone is on his ass! Not one person can tell you that they like him as a character, I literally preface in my own comment that I am unable to form an opinion on him because I don’t like him enough to dickride, LMFAOOOOO.
Morae is absolutely catty. She’s spiteful; her brother’s death left an inedible mark on her heart and she lashes out at Doyeon even when approached gently as a result. A woman can be catty without it holding negative connotation, I’m starting to believe you just want a reason to be mad because if there is one word that Morae fits down to a T, it’s catty 😭 She is literally calling the debt collectors right now, even though there is no real reason for her to kick Jinju out of Doyeon’s house (which Doyeon has discussed with her prior), just because she hates Doyeon.
Doyeon, to Morae, replaced her brother. She took away her brother’s memory by becoming apart of her family and taking on the role of “older sibling” — It is now Morae’s turn to take away something of Doyeon’s. As much as she might argue that she is looking out for her family, it’s already been established by Doyeon that harboring Jinju isn’t a crime, first of all, and secondly, would only add honor to the family name.
Morae doesn’t care.
She’s great! Gunwoo calls out to her and she tells him, very curtly, to get the fuck out. Deserved, by the way, I’d be pissed too if I was called out of class to take care of the wet dog equivalent of a grown man, but this also is an example of Morae being catty — “deliberately hurtful in one’s remarks.”
She slaps Jinju, slaps Doyeon, throws shit at her if the paper cut Doyeon received is anything to go by. She is always on the ready to fight. You wouldn’t say that her threatening both Jinju and Doyeon is catty? HELPPP MEEEE!!!! What would you prefer I call her? Rude? C’mon.
Her intellect and cunning is what differentiates her from Jinju’s husband, who is unwise and dimwitted. The story portrays Jinju’s husband as sincere — Jinju, his wife for, as you state yourself, over a decade, calls him sincere.
He
is sincere. You can’t argue with the story’s narrative, lmfaoooo 😭
If you wanna argue misogyny so bad, don’t you think that it’s great that all the prominent men (Gunwoo, Jinju’s husband, even the debt collectors) in this manhwa are stupid and the women are constantly outsmarting them? Doyeon sniffs out the undercover collector quickly, Morae is full of wits, and Jinju takes advantage of the knowledge her years has earned her.
What can the men boast? Lmfaooooo.
This is an insane thing to argue about. People are calling Jinju’s husband an asshole, too, you are not the only one, babe.
Morae isn’t hated because she’s a woman. She’s hated because she’s vindictive and ready to throw people under the bus for her own gain. Jinju’s husband, as per the narrative, is literally just a guy.
Not a villain, not a hero, not anything more than an explanation for Jinju’s backstory.
It makes sense for people to find Morae more wicked when she is…quite literally, the story’s villain alongside the debt collectors. It’s really fucking ironic, wouldn’t you say, that she’s helping them out in this chapter? Yay teamwork! The collectors literally couldn’t get a hold of Jinju despite trying for so long without the help of a woman. YAYYYY FEMINISM!
I’m being sarcastic btw, if it wasn’t obvious enough.
“Ok then why aren’t people telling Jinju’s husband to die?”
I personally hope he’s 7ft under the Han river by now. Would add a kick to the story. Does that balance things out for you?
Jokes aside, yeah, I see your point on that. When men are villains, they are offered the princess treatment, but when women are, they’re irredeemable…except that doesn’t apply here. When people say that Jinju’s husband is naive, they’re literally only pointing out what the story is telling you.
We don’t know much about him except for these traits. That he is weak, kind, and Jinju loved him for being so soft in a world that has only ever been painful for her.
Jinju chose to be with him. He didn’t leave without telling her that he’s going to leave; what hurts Jinju is that she wasn’t flat out abandoned, but left in waiting.
He is not depicted as the story’s villain. Morally, he may as well be, but narratively? No. Morae on the other hand…do you see where I’m going?
Noooobooodyy who goes here loves any of the men. It’s a GL. That’s why we’re here! For the women! Trusttt, nobody defending Jinju’s husband is doing it because “he’s my pookie bear snuggle muffin 🥺“
People wishing Morae gets physically incapacitated is precisely so that she can’t fuck shit up 😭 She’s actually apart of the story, after all. Why would people wish death on Jinju’s husband when he’s already out the picture? Whoops.
