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Anderes: Issues (english)

Ich entschuldige mich vorab schon mal für mein Englisch, ich hab den Rant vor circa einem Jahr geschrieben und damals war mein Englisch halt schlechter als jetzt. Zusätzlich behandelt dieser Rant einen Eindruck, den ich von zusammengestellten Bands, allen voran K-Pop und dessen Idols, habe/hatte. Und es ist im Chat Stil geschrieben, weil ich gerne Selbstgespräche führe.
Okay, wenn ihr es dennoch lesen wollt, bitte sehr: Ein Eindruck in meinen Kopf.

Imaginary Idol: So you think you're different from everyone else?

My Mind: Did I ever say I was?

I: No, you didn't.

M: So what made you believe I would think something like that?

I: Don't know, doesn't everyone think like that about themselves?

M: No.

I: Wow, that was fast and harsh...

M: Let me finish: Everyone hopes that they're different from others. What do you think why K-Pop is so hyped at the moment?

I: Because our dances, songs and looks are stunning.

M: That's the part to trigger young girls and boys around the world, but no: they want to be different. Mostly from their parents. Maybe it's unconcious, but nonetheless they have this urge to be different from their parents.

I: Oh. Is that what you really think?

M: Yeah. And because no one gets the texts.

I: What do you mean by that?

M: You could sing the biggest shit and international fans wouldn't care because they simply don't know what you're singing about. So it's just about the melody. Or the dance. Or the looks. Probably the looks.

I: Then why are there so many fan fictions with boy x boy pairings?

M: That has nothing to do with what I said just now but anyways: You don't make it difficult to imagine something among the lines of gay love in a korean boy group with all the skin ship you're doing. And maybe little teenage girls write themselves into a story as a member of a couple just to be near their bias. And because they want to be different from their parents.

I: You really are obsessed with that generational conflict, aren't you?

M: I'm not. That's just the thing my degree was about. I asked a few people of my mother's generation whether they had the desire to see two men together or not.

I: You have to consider that those things weren't in the public for long up till now.

M: I know. I'm not stupid, remember? Plus I did do research for my degree. And if they had the desire to see a gay couple there would've been nothing to stop them. But apparently they hadn't. So the question is: Is that just the way of today's youth to draw a line between them and other generations?

I: I don't know. I'm not a woman nor am I a teenager. But getting back to the part where you said that everyone wants to be different from their parents, doesn't that mean that everybody is different from other humans?

M: No, it doesn't mean that stupid shit. It just means that we have raised a generation with pretending-to-be individualists. Because the whole generation in the end is the same.

I: But everybody's life is different, their experiences, gen material and surroundings are different. So how could someone in the same generation possibly be the same as someone else?