The men of Season 2 are genuinely embarrassing
The guys assigning Maririn an intention she didn’t explicitly communicate, then judging her for that assumed intention, is what annoys me the most. She called them handsome, and somehow that got turned into her being romantically interested in them. Even if her compliments were “flirtatious”, why is that something to ridicule her over? They’re on a dating show, for god’s sake. Is the entire point not to express attraction and get to know people?
What annoys me even more is Makun claiming she said she was interested in him when, from what we saw, she never actually said that. There’s a huge difference between calling someone handsome and explicitly expressing romantic interest in them. He’s taking his own interpretation of her words and presenting it as though it’s something she actually said, which completely changes the narrative and makes her look like she’s pursuing him.
The guys are entitled to interpret her compliments however they want, but they’re not entitled to treat their assumptions as facts and then make her the butt of the joke. If they weren’t interested, they could simply accept the compliment and move on. Nobody is forcing them to reciprocate anything.
There’s something incredibly off-putting about men who seem to enjoy the attention of women but then ridicule them for giving it. God forbid a woman openly compliments a man without having her intentions dissected, exaggerated and used against her.