Frankly, the only response these events elicit is to, like you, wonder about the treatment of female idols and what they put up with.
Amen!
b/c I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would choose to subject themselves to this. I KNOW. How can people possibly think he made this decision lightly? He didn't get pissy and decide to quit and flounce--for one thing, we don't even know if he's leaving yet, but for another, there's no way he didn't think about this long and hard.
The amount of good faith K-pop fans have in shady companies (especially SME, who have a history of this sort of thing) boggles my damn mind, especially to the extent that they attack idols for speaking out against it.
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Amen!
b/c I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would choose to subject themselves to this.
I KNOW. How can people possibly think he made this decision lightly? He didn't get pissy and decide to quit and flounce--for one thing, we don't even know if he's leaving yet, but for another, there's no way he didn't think about this long and hard.
The amount of good faith K-pop fans have in shady companies (especially SME, who have a history of this sort of thing) boggles my damn mind, especially to the extent that they attack idols for speaking out against it.
You said it.