sorry but screaming at all these articles in awe of KPOP stans being socially engaged as if the most shocking thing about the news cycle is that youth (primarly young womxn & queer communities) can be socially active & also enjou KPOP (anyone else smell misogyny and xenophobia)

Lol *enjoy

As if enjoying KPOP and being articulate in politics/social justice are somehow mutually exclusive...we’ve seen this applied before in various takes for what’s considered “women’s interests” etc but it doesn’t make the trope less tired or boring.

when you add race + orientalism + xenophobia in, it becomes all the more “interesting” - there were similar responses to anime for a long time until YT weebs appropriated the aesthetic - but it’s always interesting to me when people engage in debates like these

As if your spectrum of interests denotes your intellectual capacity or ability to care about social justice? As if a type of beat limits what artists can talk about or create? Baby that’s elitist and sexist https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😘" title="Kusshand zuwerfendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Kusshand zuwerfendes Gesicht"> (& racist if you still think western music is paving the way)