Like everybody else who follows k-pop, I've been reading about Kris leaving EXO,
after all it's been pretty fucking impossible to avoid. In fact it's
even interrupted my blogging schedule - I had a completely different
blog about 80% completed and then this fucking shit turned up and
crashed the blogging party, demanding that I write about it, simply
because I know people will not stop asking me about this stuff if I don't write about it.
While
I honestly have no major emotions about EXO in any particular direction
(other than at least "Overdose" is better than "Growl"), it's been
vaguely interesting to watch the reaction to their line-up situation in
Korea. Many people are calling Kris lazy and sticking up for the rest of the group... but a thought occurred to me: if it were a female group, this would never happen. Whether it's T-ara, Girl's Day, 5Dolls, miss A, Sistar, Jennie Kim, SNSD, Crayon Pop...
it doesn't matter which group it is, when a member is having trouble,
that member is an angel and the rest must therefore be evil bullies.
Because anonymous people on the Internet said so.
I
thought it would be interesting (to me, maybe not to you or anyone else
but oh well) to turn the tables. How would the EXO/Kris situation be
received by the hive-mind if they were judged by the same standards that
netizens use to judge female groups? Read on in the following hypothetical scenario (I have to bold this part or some dumb motherfuckers won't understand the point of this blog) and find out.
