“If we make a profit from the pink economy then nobody will care he’s transgender! Or transexual! Or gay maybe?”
Graceful Family, these are THREE DIFFERENT THINGS.

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    AND HE MIGHT NOT BE ANY OF THOSE THREE.

    Sorry for yelling.

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      Tell me about it. I’m trying to decide if this is ruining the show for me or not.

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        I asked myself the same question. There were a couple people on the S**mpi thread saying they were going to drop the show because they were disgusted by this storyline.

        My own disappointment stems from the show’s clumsy, crass treatment of something that could’ve been well integrated.

        I’m going to continue watching because there’s a good chance the ship will right itself.

        Speaking of ships, next week’s previews from the live broadcast shows an OTP kiss. (You won’t see it in the Viki cut.) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3LU-EXpTVw/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

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          Thematically the concept works. And the idea of this ultra conservative family who can’t even handle a female CEO finding out the beloved eldest son is transgender could be a really interesting thing to showcase; especially if the show came down heavily on him having done nothing wrong but being, as you say, boxed in by their expectations and ignorance.

          If anything, this show is treating his gender identity the way a lot of Korean characters traditionally treat female characters – as something that informs somebody else’s arc. So who he is and what he wants are framed as being entirely about how they impact the “real” characters. And that is a big problem.

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