97% of aegyo in kpop is pure age play and feeds into pedophilla and no one can convince me otherwise. Before you start typing some bullshit, get ur fried attention span to actually listen. Aegyo quite literally means acting cute and childlike, keyword child it is literallly in its description.
We’ve somehow collectivly agreed to ignore that watching grown idols specifcally women, mimic the speech patterns and motor skills of a toddler is creepy as hell.
When a women in her mid 20s is forcing a lisp, shyly tugging at her sleeves and making baby sounds for a camera. Its a performance of submissiveness. That rewards her for being developementally arrested and really who does this act cater to?
Its industrialized infantilization and it feeds a market that finds adult female agency and independent sexuailty dirty or threatening. Dont even try to disagree when its literally baked into the physical template of what a women is “suppoused to” look like.
The asian beauty standard is basically a menual for how to look like a prepubscent child. Huge watery eyes, tiny chins and that milk skin. Those are all traits associated with infancy. When the industry demands that a women look like a child and then act like one too. Its creating a pure image thats bassically a dog whistle.
Male idols get caught up in it too sure but women take the hit the most. Especially minors in the industry, they grow up being rewarded for acting like this. So when they get older it messes with how they’re allowed to present themselves. Like they are expected to stay stuck in that childlike mold forever instead of actually being allowed to grow into adulthood normally.
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