But in a gay relationship where both partners are equal, the gendering of roles is meaningless and the promulgation of unfair power imbalances that plagued (and still plague) heterosexual relationships should have no place there either. As long as patriarchal stereotypes persist, when a male partner feminises the other's role in the relationship there will be implications of subordination as well. The trope carries the message that the 'female' of the pair (the uke) is a 'little woman' to his 'male' seme. When Pran indignantly confronts Pat in one of the later episodes about calling him a housewife, Bad Buddy is also taking the opportunity to rip into the 'wifey' trope (note the diminutive suffix) trotted out in countless other BL dramas.
