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Cute Programmer chinese drama review
Dropped 5/30
Cute Programmer
5 people found this review helpful
by gf44
Sep 21, 2021
5 of 30 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 1.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 1.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

ALERT: toxic relationships

Right. So I'm dropping this drama like a rancid hot potato.

The ML embodies toxic masculinity writ large. Selfish. Cruel. Insensitive. Self-absorbed.
The FL embodies doormat candy. Emotionally needy. Fragile. Incapable of recognizing and rebuffing the ML's cruelty.
The SFL is a caricature of the 'mean' woman. Essentially a female version of the ML. So they really are a match made in hell.

I wish drama writers would:
1. Stop valourising toxic masculinity.
2. Stop fetishizing men's cruelty to women in relationships as 'love.' And its corollary, women's acceptance of terrible behaviour as 'love.'
3. Stop pitting women against other women.
4. Stop making romanticizing lack of consent and rape culture.
5. Stop normalizing excessive drinking as socially acceptable when it is incredibly physically and mentally harmful.

Right...I'm off to bleach my brain.
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