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DELIGHTFUL_GIRL

                                             March  26, 2015
                                             August 24, 2018

                                                      HERE_IN_THE_REAL
In "Delightful Girl Choong-Hyang" (2005)
everyone seems absurdly prudish (perhaps,
"innocent") about sex.
                                                       LITTLE_BLACK_DRESS
In something like "Little Black Dress" (2011),
every thing seems more "realistic", and yet
it all seems tremendously bleak.


          Similarly consider
          "Goong S" (2007) vs
          "The Heirs" (2013)

Either sex gets the cute and innocent
treatment, or the realistic and nasty.


  This is a familiar pattern, isn't it?
  Maybe its two aspects of the same notion:

  Sex is evil, and so avoided by the good,
  and the ones who indulge themselves must
  be unhappy with their depraved existence.

  "Realistic" must mean negative.
                                           NEGATIVE_TRUTH




Another way of taking things:
there are genre conventions
in play that depend on these    In the middle of "Delightful", there's a bit
attitudes, they're not          of self-parody where Mong visits a
necessarily seriously held by   relationship councilor who asks obvious
the people making or viewing    questions like when were your last physical
these stories.                  relations with your wife-- Mong is completely
                                baffled by this question, he can't figure out
                                what the councilor is referring to.

                                                Someone from reality encounters
                                                someone from the shojou-verse.


There's a need for conflict in fiction--
or it's commonly assumed that there is--
and these attitudes can be used to create
conflicts:                                   The conflict I would pick:
                                             the comfortable bohemians vs
   The male wants it,                        the normies that make themselves
   the woman says no.                        miserable.

   The woman fears someone else              "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985)
   may think she said yes.                                                     
                                                          SEEKING                     
   The woman holds out until                                                   
   the male proves himself.                               


       The woman goes for it, but
       feels tormented by guilt and
       longs for something more.






  At the close of Episode 2, Dangerbaby was
  confused by something-- if I remember right
  the female lead was acting jealous, and
  Dangerbaby remarked:

     "But she broke up with him."

  Evidently, Dangerbaby has no understanding of the
  game-playing impulse a lot of women indulge in...         This is probably
                                                            one of the reasons
      I've also heard Dangerbaby argue claim that           we've been getting
      female sexuality is "more straight-forward"           along for decades.
      than male, but I suspect that's her
      generalizing from her own individual case--
      she herself doesn't go out of her way to make
      things complicated the way that many do--


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