you know what keeps me up at night? wondering about how the fuck k-pop got so popular. like, what’s the appeal??? is it the highly manufactured songs, the toxicity of the industry, the racist overtones, the capitalist hellscape dialled up to eleven with saturated colours to make up for how empty and meaningless the music is?
your favourite idol could just be blinking and y’all’d be like “omg!!! you will not believe what baekhyun has done
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💦” like sis i know i was unbearable during my ~superwholock~ phase but y’all are in your 20s and fetishizing & infantilizing asian men while glorifying a horribly toxic industry that’s been known to exploit young teens and kids for monetary gain
personally I was just upset with k-pop fans writing about wanting to milk those guys but this is a good point too.
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i’d hate to be a high schooler in this day and age. i see young ass girls on youtube doing “grwm freshman year” full beat 28 inch wigs and its like……. when i was in high school you’d be lucky if we didnt show up in our pajamas. maybe a lil mascara here n there. idk i just feel bad that there’s so much sexual pressure on these younger girls because of social media
I dont even feel bad because its all a choice tbh
im not gonna jump on you for this response because you’re only 19 but you saying that young girls being forced to conform to societal standards is a “choice” aint it chief. nobody chooses to be negatively impacted by sexism and the male gaze it just kind of happens. it’s insidious. and definitely not by choice
I don’t want to ‘feel’ empowered. I want to be empowered. Where is my fucking land? Or my higher position in society? Why are women supposed to feel grateful about a ‘feeling’? Whilst men are actually empowered.
Wow. I’ve literally never thought about it this way.
