the double standards about Chao Planoy in the GL fandoms needs to be studied
first of all, what is Planoy's crime exactly? because writing mediocre fiction is not it. having controversial topics in her novels is not it either.
I dont know anything about her other than she's a GL author and most likely a queer woman.
but if you hate ONE of her works but enjoy the rest you do have double standards especially if you have to LIE about that one work.
the trilogy gap, blank, affair
Gap has an age gap that is not addressed, a rich CEO/poor employee dynamic that is utilised to the max and the CEO openly coerces the employee to her will. Also the CEO is a royalty, while the other is just a normie.
blank has an even larger age gap and it is the main theme of the story, the younger one does all the wooing, and the older tries everything to make it stop. the younger comes from wealthy background, the older one even though she's a royalty, she has been disowned and lives as a poor artist. she doesn't use her status to coerce or groom the younger one, even though she could. she takes extra effort to mend the younger one's relationship with her parents, she even revealed to the mom that the younger one was being beaten by the grandma, and even tries to get her to make friends her age. when the parents find out about their relationship and they break them up, the older one agrees with the parents and goes along with it. In fact it is the younger one who crosses all the boundaries possible, instead (they are both adults)
Affair has the couple knowing each other since they were born, lived together and have a sibling relationship developed. their parents even had an affair. the one develops romantic feelings and the other looks at her as a sister. they lose contact when they are teens and they meet again as adults. there is a rich poor dynamic and dependence but is not used to coerce. the queer identities of the two are very blurred and they are only queer for each other. One of them even fucks the one from blank to figure out if she's into women in general or just into the one she's in love with.
Pluto is about someone who fell in love with someone, who was pretending to be her twin, and then she got in a relationship with said twin, who dumped her so to marry a guy she didnt love, he dies, she's in a coma and the twin takes her place, and the lover is blind after the twins friend beat her for being a lawyer to someone who hit and ran the twin's bestie, and everything is about lies, and when they finally all learn the truth because the twin wakes up, the twin demands that they break up, and then they are miserable for a year, and the twin realises that and goes to therapy and lets them be together.
I don't know of any of the other ones, but I heard they are equally messy
GL fandoms now only lie and trash one of them. and you all know which one.
the thing is that they have zero media literacy, and they call for Planoy to be jailed, and equate a large age gap between fictional adults, with actual in real life pedos, based on those lies about the age of the younger character. (who by the way was OLDER than the younger one in GAP)
the fact these people with their trash takes get me to defend chao planoy and her right to be a mediocre writer, makes me angry at this point
