My ID Is Gangnam Beauty - Ch. 64 - Sooah (2)

[ojoudere]

@LazyMaria sooah doesn't hate mirae. she basically hates those who are born ugly but dare to fix their faces to look pretty. she thinks it's "unfair" that other kids who are already blessed and more fortunate than her, are still allowed to rob her of her happiness so easily with plastic surgeries. her parents abandoned her, people rejected her, but finally she found "her place" where she feels accepted. she survived. god didn't give her a family but she no longer minds it. she is born pretty. people love pretty things and a pretty face belongs to her alone. sooah doesn't hate mirae. she's just trying to get back things that rightfully belong to her from the start : kyungsuk's affection and people's attention that are supposed to be directed towards her. mirae shamelessly tried to steal it from her.

i think that's how sooah views it.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Kakao: I get the logic, but it's not relevant. People can absolutely value beauty and generally lionize beautiful people, and simultaneously not notice or believe that someone they're bullying has become good looking--or even turn it into yet another excuse to treat them even worse, a "Who does she think she is" kind of deal. When I was in grade school and part of high school I was bullied a lot, for a long time, pretty consistently, and I will tell you whatever it's supposedly based on isn't the point (Luckily I had an excellent home environment so I was able to shrug it off in a way someone who is also crushed at home wouldn't be able to). The cartoonist is in my opinion trying too hard on the "beauty == social boss" and losing realism. As I say, I can see her gaining social ascendance after a switch in environment.
As to Sooah, there are two basic ways to react to extreme trauma, and you see it all the way to people who were in concentration camps. People either decide that it should never happen to anybody, or they decide that it should never again happen to them. Sooah's the second kind, and while it's kind of understandable it is not inevitable--the choice was there to be the first kind, to see other people (except maybe bullies) as human, vulnerable the same way she is. Even the choice to be a chameleon trying to maintain social relevance through beauty doesn't mean she had to be not just beautiful but the most beautiful, not just accepted but dominant, not just getting along but seeing people as rivals and undermining them. Her choice was actually high risk; with her background I'd consider it more likely she'd want to just be beautiful enough--enough to have a solid niche but not be the centre of attention or jealousy. Not that I think it's impossible--but it's a choice, and one that says something about an underlying personality.
Overall, I just don't really buy this whole arc. I still think the stark degree of brutalization she went through from every direction is fairly unlikely to be the cause of her kind of personality--I would expect someone much more withdrawn, or perhaps overtly hostile, to come out of that. And I really don't believe the bullying would have just stopped like that. Doesn't happen.
It doesn't help that this whole thing is such a cliche. That it goes with the toon's themes helps but does not salvage it for me.

 

[relic626]

@Kakao

It's a stupid reason, she's being a bitch due to her own selfish insecurities. Regardless of the cause she's the one going out of her way to make someone else's life difficult even though she had experienced what it felt like to be on the receiving end.
If that's the plot author thinks readers will feel emotional he's dreaming.

 

[Kakao]

@relic626

Everyone is different ,so one will take it to extreme one will be nicer the other one will be hateful
most people that abused on their childhood will be abusers but not all of them
It's not justifying anything but there's a lot of examples to give so you can understand deeply the nature of a person. (watch for example "wild wild country" you will understand it more)
we tought as kids there's good and bad and we take it to extreme but it's not like that in reality. maybe just in movies
the things she doing to Mari is not evil , but it's not good also...so it's something very wrong you can't justify but still you can understand from where she is coming from. and she is still young so it's not that she is 30's or older, she is just less than 20's, it's very young. she didn't steal or killed yet, so i think there's a place for compassion or understanding
if she will understand that she made a mistake it will be a good time. and it's not so far there's 20 chapters for that.

@Purplelibraryguy
Your situation you are lucky unlike other kids, excellent home environment it's number one for building strong personality, and not school, although it's part of it, family it's the basic, Sooha never had that contrary from Mari , so she didn't have the "Back" to support her ,
about how the bullying stops, it's something that very relate to SK so i don't know from where are you, but all the point is SK values and not other countries, the writer took it to extreme but it can be for my opinion and also there's a point he or she wanted to make so it's all around woman and beaty issue, watch the video: "Korean Women Answer Commonly Asked Questions About Themselves" on YT they talk about it a little.
To sum it up it's a manga and not festival film or documentary so a lot of the scenes are extreme and not in reality just to illustrate the idea behind them, A pinch of life

 

[relic626]

Either way... this doesn't make me feel anything other than annoyed, this is the kind of thing that makes readers do a 180. Won't waste my time reading anymore of this arc.