Dear Sweet Zeus...I get having preferences but this is getting ridiculous...

If I read one more TAEKOOK story depicting Taehyung as a bottom who has no agency of his own, no thoughts and/or feelings other than Jungkook, who cannot think for himself, let alone help himself, is a bottom simply because "He's too cute to top!"  and "He's clearly smaller than Jungkookie, so that means he has to bottom."  I think I may just go on a rampage.

And it will be bloody.

I understand people have preferences, but seriously...is that how people decide who is topping or bottoming?  By their LOOKS or their ACTIONS?  So because Taehyung has an inherently childlike/innocent spirit and is leaner than Jungkook, that automatically means he needs to take it up the ?  Does that also mean he naturally can't lift anything heavy or has to giggle childishly and bat his eyes and do anything else that makes us women look like idiots?  Why, when women have worked so hard to overcome these ist stereotypes over the years, would you then want to inflict those same inferior stereotypes onto a guy? 

Here's a newsflash people:  Being innocent by nature doesn't mean you have to bottom.  It also doesn't mean that you should be depicted AS A CHILD.  Especially in a story where you are writing them in ual situations (unless you're doing and that is another story and needs to be handled properly).  Being of innocent nature just means that you have a bright view of the world around you, you're not destroyed or jaded by what others think of you and you see the beauty in things rather than the ugliness.  Why on earth are people instead writing Taehyung in situations where he's getting royally ed yet he's acting like an infant?  That's ing creepy.

Maybe I'm just hugely protective of Kim Taehyung.  Each member of BTS all have stereotypes on them (Come on people, J-Hope cannot be that happy all the time--and the members have confirmed it)  but for some reason Taehyung is the one who gets the brunt of this bull stereotyping.  He's either called retarded or stupid or an alien 90 percent of the time or he's being written about in stories in the most horrendous ways possible. 

Don't misunderstand me: Taehyung can bottom without being portrayed like every female's living nightmare.  In the end, there should always be strongly written females and there should also be equally strongly written males.  And I don't mean testosterone driven macho males.  I mean strongly written characters that we can all identify with, can relate to, can feel a kinship with.  Not characters where you are cringing throughout the fic, hoping that younger people are not reading it and getting the wrong idea about people and relationships in general.  Sometimes I'm reading stuff on this site, wondering if the author is a child themselves because the relationships are written so poorly and it makes me fear how people view being in a relationship these days. 

A relationship should be healthy and about equality.  Not one person calling the shots 24/7, making the other cower in fear and have no say in anything.  Making one half of the couple--you know, "the bottom" act like "The woman"-- is insulting.  No woman should be expected to act that way either--whether in real life or in fiction.  And reading about a man who is in the designated "female role" in a male/male pairing is no better.  Insulting and degrading all around. 

When writing about Taehyung bottoming, let's try to, oh I don't know, depict him as a grown man who just happens to like the D.  Let's enhance that he's got a job, has other interests, can be quite capable in his own merit.  Doesn't need to be validated by someone else (for me, that person being Jungkook b/c I refuse to read any other pairings) but is validated all the same.  Let's try to shake things up a little and insert some realism to the proceedings.

There are many talented authors on this site who do Bottom! Tae so much justice that it makes me cry with joy.  It's not my usual cup of tea for all the above reasons, but these authors can make me enjoy it.  But there are so many others who make me worry for them and how they view relationships.  Because their written portrayals are not healthy.  And the comments praising said unhealthy and heavily stereotyped pairings ("I know JK Taehyung, but this is just such a beautiful story!") are even more horrendous.  What is beautiful about Taehyung getting by Jungkook and then later falling for him?  Seriously?  Is it just me who thinks this is insane?

I'm simply cringing at most of the portrayals of Tops and Bottoms in this fandom. 

/Rant