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ITZY's Ryujin talks about the back handed compliments and misogyny the group often faces because of their concept


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And because the subtitle font is really small, I wrote down what she said

 

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"And when the audience watches the performance we prepared hard for people compliment us by saying 'Your performance seems difficult for a girl group', 'it looks too straining for a girl group..' 'Too cool to be a girl group's..'. They sometimes say things like this. But these don't exactly sound like compliments to me. 'For a girl group' feels like it's implying we're a little better than they expected? Of course they mean well so I responded, 'Oh thank you'. But it didn't really feel like a big compliment. We weren't doing this thinking, 'That'll do because we're girls.'  I Just hope they can appreciate it as is? That is my hope. Its different from 'I wish they liked it'.it. Just as it is? Without adding anything else. Think and feel what you see....just...'they're good' 'they're cool.' Somethong like that? I want us to be compliment  without our performances being relative to anything else."

 

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40 minutes ago, Moon Jellyfish said:

Edit: longer clip

 

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Thanks, op, because I couldn't see shit from the video. I love their concepts as confident girls and how they are such confident performers even if I don't like all their songs. Not Shy is a hit for me, I loved it!

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It's a recurrent problem, since the stereotype is having girlgroups having a real cute and angelique, very feminine, young and a little bit too sexualised with mysogynistic lyrics where men is the standard.

So when girlgroups tends to break that image, have feminist/empowering lyrics they get the backhanded compliments. 

And let's not even have a girlgroup member with a toned and/or muscular body, she will be called a man right away.

 

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