I have an important opinion to throw out here- welcome to my mini Ted talk.
This is once again regarding bottom Minho, like always because I don't want to get way too off track from my purpose. Recently I've been going through a lot of information and looking at other's opinions on Minho and all his ships. It really disappoints me that there's almost no bottom Minho books here on wattpad, and same goes with ao3.
Whenever I see books with Minho, he's always the dom/top. What surprised me the most is that he's even a top with Chan! I tried using certain key words that relate to Minho being bottom but it was no use. All this made me feel so uncomfortable and annoyed, and I wanted to know the truth behind why everyone came to the conclusion that he's top. So I collected some facts and came up with a reasonable theory.
The first thing is, I found some correlations between minsung and taekook. As you might know, here on wattpad, most ffs have jungkook as a top and taehyung as a bottom, which is kind of weird because Jungkook is a cute, shy and fluffy baby (ok, ok. Yes, he is a buff muscleman as well but that's beside the point-). While Taehyung? Well, he's got a very deep voice and a sensual image. But most armys/taekook shippers still have him as a bottom, like what?? And same with minsung: Minho's face is very pretty and delicate while his body is a bit more built, and Jisung has a tough rapper sort of image while, um, anime girl legs sksksks.
And what is the real reason behind Minho as top? Reverse psychology.
Why is that? You see, Minho is a confident gay who doesn't mind being a hoe with other guys (*enters sexy dance with Jisung*). Our Sungie on the other hand is.. honestly pretty gay as well. But in comparison to Minho, he can be considered a panicked gay. Minho also seems to not mind being the girl of the relationship, like calling himself pretty and etc (same with Kookie, actually. He was picked as the member who didn't care about gender differences and would wear feminine perfume and stuff). Jisung also has a generally big ego, which is seen from him calling himself handsome and acting all swag and shiz. The thing is, people like to reverse these roles based off reality, hence why minsung is generally seen the way it is(n't).
Another thing is, Minho isn't as popular as the members he's shipped with, leading to people not knowing him that well. Others often see him as Jisung's husband/bf or whatever simply because it's a very shallow, onesided portrayal of him. Being a Minho-biased, I can proudly say that I know a lot more about him than an average, Jisung-biased minsung shipper. Either way, it's sickening to say that Minho, even until now, is still seen as half of Minsung. But why is he a bottom with Chan? Once again, it's because Chan is officially more popular than him, same with Felix (well acc he's the biggest "bottom" anyways so) and Seungmin.
STAYs! It's time we change things up a bit. Support bottom Minho by sharing/spreading these words to people who can't see Minho as bottom to save their lives. Thank you for reading and I hope you agree. Please comment your own thoughts and ideas in the comments because I can always learn a thing or two. See y'all next time :)))
