I feel like a lot of people didn’t absorb the info that Ko Moon Young has a personality disorder, and isn’t just acting “eccentric” to be eccentric.

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    I feel like this too – but then again I felt like this during Itaewon Class as well, when people refused to accept that the female lead was literally a sociopath. Like diagnosed, it’s in her character description, not just a hyperbolic explanation of her character, sociopath.

    I knew we were going to have the same issue here – but I’m almost too tired to rant about this a second time.

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      I feel you. Like I don’t necessarily mind if someone calls her behavior problematic, but I wish they had the awareness to know that it was meant to be problematic, and meant to be a point of conflict, you know? Like I love so‐called “messy” female protagonists, but I feel like people rarely recognize that they are meant to be messy and imperfect, because that’s how real human beings are.

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        Yeah. I agree – it’s totally fine to find her behavior problematic, because it both is problematic and is supposed to be problematic. Like, it’s literally there in the disorder’s name – ANTISOCIAL personality disorder. Antisocial doesn’t always mean withdrawn – it can also mean going against the social norms. This is not someone being a b*tch merely for its own sake, or as you noted a “messy” female lead, but because in part they have no control over those impulses. And I love that we’re seeing these portrayals in dramaland, but I hate that people miss that point.

        Someone literally commented to me on an IC post/comment once that they didn’t believe the female lead was a sociopath, and that she was just a brat. I was just like…OK then, you do you. Basically, do not be surprised if I post an epic rant at some point about this.

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          Lol, I’ll back you up if you post a rant.

          People will advocate for complex female leads, yet completely change their tunes once they find those complexities “unlikable.”

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            I remember when My Strange Hero/Revenge Returns was airing people were hating on the female lead for a mistake she made as a teenager that resulted in the male lead’s life being ruined, as if the whole point of her character arc wasn’t to learn from and correct her past mistake. Also, her character was a total badass and another wonderfully strong-willed smart, competent female lead, and I think the combo of that with “ruined male lead’s life” just did not compute with some people. Like, I get not liking a character for how they’re written, but writing a character off at the start of a drama is silly because most of the time their bad actions are meant to be where their growth starts. You need to start form a lower place in order to climb high.

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      I agree with both of you. This is why I’ve been saying I don’t want her behavior to change very much when or if the romance happens but maybe people don’t believe it because dramaland itself isn’t usually honest about this kind of character.
      What happened with the psychos or antisocials of the past that were in any kind of romance? The issue with guy in Cheese in the Trap was forgotten if I remember correctly, ML from Million Stars changed his behavior after a kiss and people had all kinds of theories on the reason love redeemed him. The girl from IC went as far as saying she had ASPD from the start but it was still forgotten by the drama, like she had just become wiser later. The FLs from It’s Ok That’s Love and Heart to Heart also had issues that were quickly resolved, FBND was almost offensive about it, the only character I think escaped from this was the ML from IOTL because his situation was very much part of the plot itself.

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