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@PMR @tertium777 you are both pedophiles and should be locked up at minimum
Fiction always suffers when idiots can't discern what's real and what's fake. "The stuff you enjoy shows your true nature" is so stupid especially, seeing as that would mean my true nature was a serial killer who loved betraying my closest allies, when it's really the opposite in real life.everyone commenting "we dont know the AGE" or "its just a comic" i mean this genuinely: that's not why people are upset.
people are upset because this is depicting a romantic relationship between a teacher and a student. of course in the context of this comic, i'm sure it'll be cute and safe and not creepy or whatever.
but in the REAL WORLD relationships between students and teacher are not cute and safe. a teacher INHERENTLY has more power than a student. there's age gaps (as there likely is in this comic too) where difference in maturity cannot be waved away. students date their teachers are in danger. there's a reason why this relationship is "hidden" in the comic. consider why that would be.
it may be difficult to realize but depictions of relationships that are inherently imbalanced or exploitable like this, even in some one off internet comic, it is normalizing the existence of that dangerous thing. of course, you, the person reading this, may not be affected. but what about someone else? its kind of like how every complex machine is really just a bunch of simple machines that have come toge depicted in the stuff we enjoy informs how we look at a greater whole.
[ btw if anyone needs me to clarify what ive said i'm fine responding, but to be clear im not looking to debate anything here. im just trying to explain why people are expressing their discomfort with this chapter. if ur gonna try to like go back and forth or gotchya me.. dont lol i aint interested ]
why the fuck did you comment on my 5 year old post. this comment section has been dead since 2019.Fiction always suffers when idiots can't discern what's real and what's fake. "The stuff you enjoy shows your true nature" is so stupid especially, seeing as that would mean my true nature was a serial killer who loved betraying my closest allies, when it's really the opposite in real life.
Well I just felt like throwing something out there, in case someone decided to read the comments section like I did.why the fuck did you comment on my 5 year old post. this comment section has been dead since 2019.
You know, I'll walk back my previous hostility - that's a genuine reason. I'll give you a genuine response. I'll also give a disclaimer up front this is my personal perspective as a person who uses MangaDex to read and engage in chapter comments, I never engage in the forum or larger communities like r/manga.Well I just felt like throwing something out there, in case someone decided to read the comments section like I did.
The better question(s) is why did you write such a long comment? And why did you reply like a month later?
That's actually pretty neat, I didn't know the homepage used to be that different, honestly I usually just check it out every now and then to see if there's anything good, but I rarely find anything worth reading. And honestly I don't think writing a lot is a weakness, well, at least not if you have something to say.You know, I'll walk back my previous hostility - that's a genuine reason. I'll give you a genuine response. I'll also give a disclaimer up front this is my personal perspective as a person who uses MangaDex to read and engage in chapter comments, I never engage in the forum or larger communities like r/manga.
MangaDex was a very different website before its extended shutdown in 2020, esp wrt its comment section. Unlike now where comments are hosted on the forums, they used to be on the same domain as the main MangaDex website (I want to say the correct term would be embedded comments, but idk for sure lol). Additionally, the homepage was VERY different to how it is now. You can see this by going to the WayBack machine and looking at captures from pre-2020. In particular, unlike the "Popular New Titles" carousel that we have on the homepage now (that's populated with a lot of low-quality, tropey web/twitter ecchi comics), we had a "Top Chapters" sidebar (separated between 6h, 24h, 7d by number of accumulated views) and "Top Manga" sidebar (separated into follows & rating).
Before 2020, it was a LOT easier to find interesting, high quality manga and manhwa. There was still a deluge of works that varied wildly in quality on the front page (the "latest updates" panel was still there!) but it's not like how it is now where the "Popular New Titles" carousel is just... well frankly, a lot of boring, one-note crap.
With that in mind, when an unknown manga (esp web manga) shot up onto "Top Chapters" it meant one of two things: someone had found an exciting hidden gem or someone found something with controversial content. This manga is actually a spinoff of the "Modern MoGal" web manga that I remember being fairly popular back in the day. I can't recall if I found this because I was looking up Modern MoGal or if it popped up in the Top Chapters panel. Anyway, back in the day there was more active discussion on here about harmful tropes/themes in the manga that would get popular on the site, ESPECIALLY in the romance manga circles. You can see this yourself looking at the comments on manhwa like "Beatrice" or the manga "I'm not a Villainess Just Because I Can Control Darkness Doesn't Mean I'm a Bad Person".
Unlike a lot of other websites, for a while it felt like you could have back-and-forth discussions on MangaDex about these things. Sure, shit got heated many times, but I was surprised by the amount of times people would respond genuinely to my comments with understanding. Hence, I decided to write a comment here trying my best to explain to others WHY so many other users were finding content like this morally objectionable. If I achieved that goal or not.. who knows. I do apologize for responding to your response with outright hostility - that's antithetical to the type of conversaion I really miss having on spaces like MangaDex just few years ago! To be honest, I was mostly flabberghast to see a years old post pop up in my notifications.
I should note, MangaDex has had hentai on it for as long as I can remember (I've used the site since at least 2017), but because viewing hentai is switched off by default many users were separate from the hentai content on the site.
As for why my comments so long.................... well, verbosity has always been my weakness. I like to yap lol.
Yeah, I get it, portraying negative behaviours or situations in a positive light is generally a bad thing to do, but the problem I have is when people criticize anything that's different, even when it's not necessarily trying to promote behaviour that's wrong or could be seen as wrong, but rather somebody just decided to make a story about something.Real quick, I also want to revisit my original comment because I think I have a unique perspective now: I'm a 3rd year PhD student with plans to teach and mentor students in the future. I stand by a lot of what I said in my original comment, especially now that I've been involved in academia directly. I've seen firsthand how professors/teachers use their positions to coerse and engage in inappropriate relationships with students. I'm at a university, and even though all undergrads are 18 and above (legal adults), the univeristy policy explicitly bans relationships or sexual encounters between students and teachers because of how abusive and toxic they almost always become. Even at the graduate student level I am at, where relationships between grad students and professors aren't technically banned by the university, I've witnessed how devastating they almost* always turn out to be for the grad student. I'll add, this isn't exclusive to a certain gender or sexuality either - the person I've seen sexually harassed the most is a straight male friend in my cohort. If anything, I feel even more strongly that students and teachers should not engage in relationships, period.
*The only time I have seen one of these relationships not cause damage to the grad student was between a 40-something grad student and a professor who had an affair together - but that was messed up in a totally different way from what im talking about here
I don't believe fiction shows someones "true nature" or anything dumb like that, but I'm keenly aware of how positive depictions of what is, to be clear, a common abusive situation can help normalize that abuse in others minds. The reality is, serial killers are not accepted by society. Stories about them are appealing because they're a shocking spectacle, but are most consider them reprehensible (it's why they're usually the villains in stories). Unfortunately, teachers who have inappropriate relationships with students are frequently permitted by society, often passively through ignoring the situation by people saying "it doesnt seem that bad" or "its none of my business". It's why media portraying those relationships are cute and harmless are so uncomfortable to many people. This is what I was hoping to convey in my original post.
That said, its not like I think this manga should never exist. I think saying something shouldnt exist for moral reasons is a really dangerous precident to set and is frequently used by shitty people to justify censorship of harmless lifestyles they deem to personally be "morally objectionable". But when you share something publicly online on a platform with a comments section, you need to be prepared for people to say "Hey, I don't agree with this and I think the content is messed up."