It was making waves as an R-18 novel that supposedly exposes women's rights and social issues.
What on earth were they thinking, publishing this, getting it recognized as a debut work, and promoting it?
Do you think the decline of print books is a distant future problem? Do you think only fujoshi buy and read books? What is wrong with the culture? Whether it's the Korean literary scene or the Japanese one.
Isn't the mainstream literature these days 'by women, for women, about women'? Young writers are rotting, struggling in publishing houses that are worse than a single-room studio, pouring their blood into their writing, only to end up fleeing to male-oriented sites where their work is never recognized — does that sound like a joke to you?
The plot of Jingsanje, if you twist the perspective, goes like this:
[In the present day, the majority of Korean women have died from a disease, making women a scarce resource. The state turns Korean women into living sex dolls and forcibly extracts milk from the rest.]
The original premise is this:
[Japanese women have mostly died from a new virus, so the state sex-changes Japanese men and uses them as pregnancy machines. They exploit them for resources.]
Right, it's a topic you'd expect to find in some shady web novel. You might think, what's the big deal?
But this didn't go viral in the underground — it came out in the open. It debuted! Under the title of a 'precision tweezers that pinpoints women's rights and social issues, for women.'
Writing is the lifeblood of a nation. In terms of civilization, it's the widest, longest river. Writing is culture. Where do you think this culture came from, where masculinity is treated as sinful and shameful while femininity is considered noble? If you're going to dismiss this as political hysteria and nonsense, then fine. If you think that way, then you're more pitiful than victims of domestic violence who grew up under a battered wife, thinking 'at least my country should live well,' only to end up with a rope around their neck.
After all, this is just a community, and in today's society, you can't even take these words outside the community, and they have no meaning anyway, but I'm just saying this out of frustration.
The delusion of labeling this a masterpiece that 'pinpoints women's rights and society as a whole' with tweezers that can't even pinch a fujoshi's nipple, and my own delusion that writing this post in a community will do any good — they're pretty much on the same level.
After all, the media brainwashes and incites hatred as it pleases. Aren't we just pigs and dogs, throwing stones at concepts that didn't even exist a few years ago as if they were facts?
People who aren't interested can't turn the pages because of the musty, stiff paper; people who are interested can't turn the pages because of the disgusting, sticky content. Whose fault is it, really, that print books are dying out?
Now, let print books go to hell. let culture go to hell. let men go to hell. let South Korea go to hell.