TheNightDuck
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Wow this thread is something else lol
I haven't gone that far back but I just wanted to say a few things. I don't agree with alot of the stuff here but I was never obsessed with BeeTeeS either as my obsession days with kpop was long gone 10 years ago. My sisters like beetss so I wanted to find out some stuff about them (I have always had interest in semiotics and the kpop industry changes) and I came accross this thread.
Allow me to make some points as someone who has lived in an Asian country and had worked, lived and befriended with Thai, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese people. There are some things you guys are misunderstanding due to some cultural clash.
1. The gay mannerism you pick on in kpop has an explanation.
When I first moved to Asia, I thought half of the men were gay. But later I came to find out Asian men have naturally more toned down masculinty in their mannerism and the way they carry themselves. Especialy those born and living in the east compared to the Asians in the west. You can go to a rural village where there TV is rare and there is no internet and you will find men with the same mannerism. It's not a gay agenda or a propoganda to spread something. Compared to African men - I am african btw - who are hyper masculine (to the point of being rough/crude) in their mannerism. It doesn't make one race better or worse than the other. Likewise, Asian women are also way more feminine than African women - in the modern sense of the concept - so softer, quieter, subdued, delicate mannerism. I have had the comment be made about us African women being tough and masculine many times by Asians not unlike the comments about Asian men being emasculated. Does that mean Asian women are real women and African women are not?
It is also a mix of boyish mannerism. In Korea guys like beets are still considered boys and not men and that's because the Korean male is not considered a man/comes of age until they serve in the military. Most idols and actors go to the military and come back considerably more ribbed and masculine. The military is no joke there and the boys go and come different becuase of the things they experience there. There is no special treatment or adoring screaming fangirls. Just heightened males compitition, trying to up each other and prove themselves. (account from a Korean friend).
Kpop international fans love to read the culture from their western liberal lense where they think kpop is revolutionizing the views on masculinity - which is not unlike what most of you are doing here, reading the industry from your point of view without consideration of cultural context. Korea is nothing like the west - it is a confucius and buddhist conservative patriarichal society with rigid expectations of men so don't let the make up, colourful MVs and soft looks trick you.
Some of you call them Ladyboys. Google ladyboys to see what they truely look like in Asia and see how they are rejected by the society there compared to the drag and LGBTQ community elsewhere.
2. The entertainment industry is bad everywhere. The analysis of the satanic signs is nice but not particularly creative as these signs are repetitive throughtout any popculture form.
But the claims some of you make - with such strong certainity but no hard evidence about them being gay, p***philes, and addicts. And it's by analysing clips from scripted variety and reality shows, the monitered SNS interactions and pictures of facial expressions. It makes it hard to take it seriously and makes me questions the morality, ethics and mentality of some you. It is worse than sasaeng behaviour. At least sasaeng's infos are evidence but there is no way you can obtain sasaeng's info because those people are a tight knit group who deal their stuff in ways you can't access. If you did actually pursue and obtain sasaeng infos then you are truely in too deep in the dark if you can't see how messed up that is.
The speculations about their sexual lives - like digging up Jimin's girlfriend's and the male escorts instagram account for rumors I am sure are years and years old - how is this any different from sasaengs or obsessive gossip/rumor chat rooms? It indicates some of you have a fascination/obsession about their sexuality and sexual activities that you are disguising as the good deed of exposing evil. No believer, with good intentions and pure heart would need to go digging and searching for those type of rumors or informations.
You would either see the satanic signs in the MVs or understand the problamatic and abusive system that is Kpop decide to unfollow them and stop there. But the level of interest in their sexual and personal lives points that the problem is with you. You can't face your weak selves that have dragged you down this obsession so instead you are intricately weaving another far more disturbing fantasy to help you get by and not over the obesssion. To help you rationalize and cope with denying yourselves the drug - which is beetss. It is equally time consuming and spiritually draining. I hope you all find the light and learn that for you to leave an obsessive fantasy life behind you don't need to go through such extreme lengths that could be even more detrimental to you mental and spiritual health. No good comes from attempting to excavate and engage with others' dark sides - whether it exist in them or not.
You are not all adults here either. Some of you stated that you are teenagers. So you are also setting really bad example and dragging minors with you.
You know what!! Excellent points. Honestly.