Do people blow your art out of proportion?

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So in my writing there are three male lead characters and three very major female characters. I had a close friend say my writing is “a bunch of demented K-Pop dudes” and I’m sitting here saying that I have female characters including one who I draw from personal experiences with severe body image and perfectionism problems.

My series has nothing to do with K-Pop. It’s about different species of demons and the main character is trying to stop himself from ending the world. If I had to describe my series in one word it would be pressure. The males aren’t that feminine and do traditionally masculine activities and in one of the characters culture looks are her forced priority when she just wants to be herself.

I wish my series wasn’t so PG-13 so people would understand but hey we can’t all write dumb autobiographies about being on the spectrum.

I'd only worry if everyone said it reminded them of K-pop! A lot of the time people's first reactions to art seem to be mixed up with completely unrelated things it reminded them of through an utterly baffling chain of thought. I get that as a songwriter. When someone in the audience asks for "that song about..." I have to think fast to guess what song they actually mean, which is rarely about the same thing. On the plus side, it's kind of cool that your art can take on an independant life of it's own in someone else's head like that.