The comments in High Class Homos are making me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Spoilers btw

Apparently if you don't support a woman abandoning her husband and child to become a career criminal, you aren't a true ally, according webtoon comments.

I've just gotten to the part where August's mother's backstory is revealed. She suffered from postpartum depression, had a mental break one day, and ran away. Honestly, understandable. Struggling with mental health isn't easy and will cause you to make bad decisions. But what annoys me is the comments treat it as if it wasn't a bad/morally grey decision, and if you don't support her decision 100 percent, you're wrong. That there was absolutely no other alternative than to abandon her family in a very traumatic way for YEARS with no closure.

First off, She also CHOSE to marry the king and have a child. Yes she thought it would make her happy due to the pressures of her upbringing. It's ok if she realized it was a mistake. But you are still responsible for your mistakes. It's still not right to abandon your child with no closure because you don't feel like a mom. If it were a man who abandoned his wife and kid because he was unhappy, he'd be called a deadbeat dad. But because she's a woman in a progressive story, you suddenly can't criticize her because then you aren't supportive of people with postpartum depression. Which is insulting, because plenty of people who suffer with postpartum depression do not abandon their child cold turkey.

Second, she could have written a letter after she came back to her senses. Like I understand this isn't a modern story and parental visits are not a thing here, but she could have communicated in some way through letter that it's not August's or her husband’s fault she left, that she is unwell and needs space. If you say this in the comments you will get downvoted.

Like, his last memory is her looking at him in horror and fleeing from his bedside. Any bit of closure would have been nice. SOMETHING. But she was selfish and didn't give August any closure, she pushed it all away.

Becoming a bandit leader was also bad and dumb. She became one after the kingdom subjugated the village she was in, because it was the “only way to fight back” or whatever. No it wasn't! She's the queen, she could have had way more of an impact by returning to the aristocracy to petition against the subjugation.

But again the comments are like “she would have no power as a woman, she would have zero impact.”

Which is not true. Number one, the council that vote in laws literally have two women out of five people. Even if it is in current time and not her time, it shows that women aren't banned from politics outright. Number two, the reason one of the council ladies wouldn't support August’s bill for gay marriage, is because it would cause women to have less power due to men not choosing to marry them. So marriage does grant women a bit of power at the very least. Number three, she is the QUEEN. With a husband who loves and backs her. She was the HEAD of high society. You're telling me, if the queen raised a huge stink and petitioned for change in the way the kingdom subjugated villages, it would have less of an impact than starting a gang? I don't buy it.

She just didn't want to go back because then she would have to face the consequences of her actions. She'd rather go the easy way and do the temporary fix of starting a gang to pay the tax, than actually help the villagers she supposedly cares about by going the long way and fighting for them politically.

Also her saying she was worried that August would go through the exact same pressures she experienced as a child, but doing absolutely nothing is selfish too.

I'm not even annoyed at her actions. Morally grey characters are interesting and fun to explore. I'm annoyed at the comments treating her like she did nothing wrong and you aren't woke if you don't agree. Someone responded “found the cishet male” to a comment voicing the tiniest disagreement with the mom's actions. As if gender or sexuality has anything to do with not supporting abandoning your kid. Rant over.