r/webtoons • u/Local_Log_4478 • Sep 08 '25

Humor throwback to this 😭

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i remember i used to read this every time i was sad cuz the art style made me laugh so hard LMFOADHG

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u/CacklingFerret Sep 08 '25

Honestly, some bl is just straight romance with extra steps. Is a gay man here who can say anything about this? Because it often seems to me that making one of the ml's hypermasculine while the other is as feminine and dainty as possible (basically a damsel in distress) is very hetero-coded and rooted in kind of patriarchal gender roles. It's exactly the same like in so many straight romance manwhas

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

So "hyper masculine" apparently means "squinting fridge pretending to be a man".

That art is so awful. At some point, no matter how good the story might be (haven't read this one), the bad art kills it.

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u/CacklingFerret Sep 08 '25

I'm pretty sure it's not even the art skills in this one. Either the artist wanted to rage bait or they genuinely like the style. You can see that they are capable to do it better, maybe give them half a day of anatomy lessons and half a day of posing lessons and it should look much more pleasant.

And yes, hyper masculine in comics usually means tall, muscular, broad shoulders and neck, very angular chin, much smaller eyes than female characters, large (often veiny) hands. It's just that as soon SK beauty standards play into it as well the "attractive guy" also looks like he wears make up, has a more pointed chin and has one of like 3 possible hair styles.

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u/mokhandes Sep 08 '25

Based on what i saw on gay nsfw subreddits, i say there is a fetish for big masculin top and small twinky no muscle bottom, but i don't know if it is about patriarchy, am not gay.

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u/throwawayornotidontk Sep 08 '25

idk white/grey haired dude looks like a child to me but yes it is very weird and somehow rooted in misogyny and patriarchal roles i think