Former “Girls Planet 999” Contestant Fu Yaning Comes Under Fire For Her Post About Sexual Orientation
In 2021, Mnet premiered their new reality show Girls Planet 999, which saw trainees compete for a chance to debut, which led to the creation of Kep1er.
One contestant who gained attention was Chinese contestant Fu Yaning. In particular, her “diss” to Kep1er’s Yujin received a lot of heat when the show was airing.
Although Yaning hit back at the criticism, explaining that it was all because of Mnet’s editing, she has come under fire again.
Recently, Fu Yaning shared some photos of herself on Instagram.
Along with the photos of Fu Yaning, netizens were surprised to see a picture with writing that read, “I have a girlfriend.” In particular, it caused a lot of backlash after netizens put it together with the caption of the post.
In the caption, Fu Yaning explained that while she was at a coffee shop, someone had “hit” on her but she rejected them using that line.
Someone hit on me at the cafe, and I rejected with, “I have a girlfriend.” It’s good to change my sexual orientation sometimes haha.
— Fu Yaning
When the post was shared online, it immediately attracted criticism from fans about how easily Fu Yaning was speaking about “changing sexual orientation.”
she used „i have a girlfriend” to reject a guy and literally said how its nice to sometimes change sexual orientation (fck her) but y’all see the word “girlfriend” and go crazy be normal for once pic.twitter.com/CjJrwvuU3m
— 🕷️ (@ACKERMLV) January 11, 2024
In particular, netizens pointed out how she was “trivializing” sexual orientation and using it for her own “advantage” when it is something that is still frowned upon in many countries, including those in Asia.
the way she literally said “it’s nice to change my sexuality” to just reject a person and they still think it’s a “development” 😀?
could’ve just answered “i have a boyfriend” but right https://t.co/RzbxN8APa1 pic.twitter.com/0pyXwoRB1H— 𝑎𝑙𝓔𝟑𝑥 🍉 (@alexythws) January 11, 2024
people be like it's not that serious, whenever it comes to sapphic situations it's never that serious, they're always so insensitive to our community lol, ive never seen a straight man using the im gay card to reject a woman https://t.co/9e3AYktsZM
— ؘ (@Ioveisfor) January 11, 2024
sick that we keep having to say lesbianism isn’t a shield for straight girls but also it’s crazy for her to believe that the “i have a gf” lie is less likely to have her harassed than “i have a bf”… whatever world she lives in i want to be in it too! https://t.co/mKMa9fh0DQ
— mau 🍉 LESBIANS FOR YUZU!!! (@jellyuzu) January 12, 2024
straight people think it's so funny to pretend being queer bc they don't know what real queer people go through every single day https://t.co/BN7LWUiRd6
— isa🫧 (@antonrises) January 12, 2024
her treating a sexual orientation like a costume aside, it baffles me that straight women do not realize saying that will not protect them in most cases https://t.co/VGivZz19uI
— dani¹² (@jihyeojin) January 12, 2024
Many netizens want Fu Yaning to delete the post as they believe she has trivialized sexuality.
