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oyceterThis series keeps enraging me, but I read on because the art was so gorgeous. Thankfully, I have been released, since the author's note in volume 4 annoyed me so much that I refuse to pick up more! Ha, freedom!
I still like the stories being told between the main story, but the main story is so frustrating, especially because it's taking a source famous for its heroine and making it something in which all the women are ineffectual and unimportant or evil.
GOOD: Acknowledgement that the sultan's plan to kill women after marrying shouldn't be blamed on his cheating wife/stepmother.
BAD: Instead, let's blame it on his cheating mother!
I keep liking the stories within the stories, which at least seem to comment a little on the patriarchy (the angel whose husband steals her clothes). And I cheer on having more Korean folktales, although I am vaguely bemused by the fact that the heaven in the story looks like Chinese heaven (i.e. Tang-style clothing).
And then, the author writes notes like: "I like the move toward equality for women, but I feel like the push for it goes too far. Men and women should not fight! We should focus on both genders, not just one, and that way they will understand each other."
I was like, "Yes, yes, that is the exact impression I get when I read about a husband imprisoning a wife by stealing her clothes and burning them, then trying to kill her because her son is not his... because he stole her the day before she was going to get married and she was already pregnant! If only the wife tried to understand her husband more and not tried to fight him off when he was hunting down her fiance and locking her in the house and trying to strangle her!"
ETA: I realized I must have accidentally skipped vol. 3 and shoujo!Caesar.
I still like the stories being told between the main story, but the main story is so frustrating, especially because it's taking a source famous for its heroine and making it something in which all the women are ineffectual and unimportant or evil.
GOOD: Acknowledgement that the sultan's plan to kill women after marrying shouldn't be blamed on his cheating wife/stepmother.
BAD: Instead, let's blame it on his cheating mother!
I keep liking the stories within the stories, which at least seem to comment a little on the patriarchy (the angel whose husband steals her clothes). And I cheer on having more Korean folktales, although I am vaguely bemused by the fact that the heaven in the story looks like Chinese heaven (i.e. Tang-style clothing).
And then, the author writes notes like: "I like the move toward equality for women, but I feel like the push for it goes too far. Men and women should not fight! We should focus on both genders, not just one, and that way they will understand each other."
I was like, "Yes, yes, that is the exact impression I get when I read about a husband imprisoning a wife by stealing her clothes and burning them, then trying to kill her because her son is not his... because he stole her the day before she was going to get married and she was already pregnant! If only the wife tried to understand her husband more and not tried to fight him off when he was hunting down her fiance and locking her in the house and trying to strangle her!"
ETA: I realized I must have accidentally skipped vol. 3 and shoujo!Caesar.
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Sun, Sep. 7th, 2008 04:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Sun, Sep. 7th, 2008 04:44 am (UTC)I was very tempted to throw v. 4 at a wall but did not as I was tachiyomi-ing in Borders...