when did I ever promise you the world?

[meiface]

Sometimes I have non-incoherent thoughts too, though usually they come out in the form of unpopular fandom opinions:

【一】 What's up with praising people to high heavens for the bare minimum of human decency? It's like thanking someone for not punching you in the face. Shouldn't we have higher standards than that?

What do I mean?

GD does something

Comments

[misslemonbar]

I hate omona as much as the next partially-sane fan, but what mainly made me think that "aw, he's a nice guy" was that everyone else (including the security guards, jesus) was preoccupied with GD and were too caught up to notice or even care about the kid. But like you said, I was more shocked by the idiocy and ignorance of everyone else around GD than GD himself. Like, sure, let's reward the guy instead of telling everyone else to actually give a crap next time? It's like rewarding the one kid in class who did his homework instead of telling everyone else off. :\

And as for point #3, I used to know a white guy who had an Asian girlfriend(I think she was Thai, so there was the whole Thai-Bride aspect flaunted very obviously) and when they split up he immediately started angling for my Chinese friend, simply because he thought that she was Asian and would therefore be a 'perfect little housewife'. Ugh.
But I've also seen the reverse aspect of that... I know a lot of my female friends that have been to places like Japan and China (being white-british like myself) have discovered that most local guys hit on them or worse because they're western and therefore 'easy'. In fact, one of said friends actually had to physically beat of this one guy who didn't understand the phrase "Get away from me you asshole", and when the police were called he apparently said that she was 'just playing hard to get, you know what these white girls are like".

/sighs at humanity

[meiface]

I am really glad GD did what he did (and I have always liked GD ♥) and it's not like I don't think he deserves any praise or recognition at all - but not to the point where it's so exaggerated to start sounding like, "Oh my god, what a fantastic human being, what an angel, clearly no one else in the world would've done what he did--"

Ugh, ugh, ick, I hate everything about your second paragraph. D: Way to go, unending misogyny prevalent in all cultures! Because clearly the girls always want it, whether because the guy is Western and rich and ~bringing her to a whole new life~ or because she is easy. Fuck you sometimes, humanity.

[misslemonbar]

GD is a sweetheart ♥ I only really started paying attention to BB this year (what kind of kpop fan am I) but you're right, he doesn't need to be elevated to God level for his kindness. People should learn from his example, rather than putting him on an even higher pedestal.

isn't humanity wonderful \o/

[jaded_skys]

Yeah, I had a guy just about try to force me to kiss him, even after I was like "no, I don't want to date you, I don't like you like that, you should stop, NO," and he still tried. Urg. White girls mean what they say.

[misslemonbar]

I just read your comment below and, ugh, it sounds so much like what my friends went through. I think the problem is in that a lot of societies, like in Korea, there's still that issue with foreigners - where people just don't want to learn that people are people and the stereotypes you want them to be :\

all girls mean what they say, why do people not get this. It all depends on the individual, unfortunately.

[misslemonbar]

*and not the stereotypes you want them to be, ugh this phone is impossible :\