Issue No.5: Ultra-faithful, where?
I don't know, girls. Fiction must have been a safe space to actually fantasize a secure hetero-romance where a man knows how to be a decent romantic interest. But I don't know why it doesn't stop there? You actually have to push further and want to make him the hyper-masculine, obsessive, aggressive but a softie for you, and a fuckboy but immediately loyal to you typa male fantasy.
Girls, why?
So America has a rigid gender tradition, so you'll have the badboy jacked up, good in the sheets because heroine has to be a virgin.
And like Philippines has this devoted ultra monogamous male lead because there's no such thing as divorce in the country. That after all the years he'd already broken up with the female protagonist, when they meet again, he never had any romantic relationship with anyone else ever since...
Why?
And he's still obsessed with you?
Like what the fuck?
That shit isn't really that frequent in real life, y'know? It must have been indeed a fantasy. But it's so meh... Like, years later later, you'd be revisiting the book and you'd be like not the same reader that you once been because you've had more awareness about its gender politics than ever before—if you know what I mean?
