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"There were insults I'd never heard before, they were disgusting and inhumane," said Darim, which is not her real name. One read: "You've just sabotaged your job."

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[-] IndieSpren 36 points 3 months ago

What's with east Asia and their fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism is? In this article, they think that making fun of penis sizes is feminism.

As a genshin player, I've read multiple posts from Chinese and Korean players on reddit, back when I was still on there, where they refer to the weirdest things as feminism. Sometimes they are against the thing. Sometimes they are for it. But it just doesn't have anything to do with feminism but they keep calling it feminist.

[-] YungOnions@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Is the same with 'Woke', it's just become shorthand for 'anything I don't like'.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

I mean, it happens in the west too. Just look at that whole gamergate debacle.

[-] IndieSpren 13 points 3 months ago

I feel like it's just way more mainstream over there. Looked into it more after writing the comment you're replying to, and, from how news sites and forums are describing the situation, anti-feminism seems to be to Korean elections what transphobia is to American ones.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

That’s fair, it’s certainly a very mainstream view.

[-] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

The bigger a threat to the status quo a group or movement becomes, the bigger the lies those who benefit from that status quo need to tell themselves to justify their opposition to progress.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 3 months ago

to be fair feminism has had very little to do with feminism for quite awhile so it's easy to project pretty much anything onto it.

edit: of course in Korea it still has something to fight, so I would assume it's actually what it says on the tin still.

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago

If you think feminism is accomplished and has nothing left to fight for in the USA and Europe then you are not very observant.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

They can see just fine, they just don't know what it means because they don't want to know in the first place.

[-] dandelion 27 points 3 months ago
[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

theres a huge subset of males in south korea(in context of where the hand gesture offensive) that find it extremely offensive. It's very specific to south korea.

[-] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago

It’s very specific to south korea.

The hand gesture might be, but the aggressive reaction to anything that even implies feminism, absolutely isn't

[-] SnotFlickerman 15 points 3 months ago

No, no they are not. Clearly.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] dandelion 3 points 3 months ago

lol, take it easy - the joke is funny precisely because most men do not care, the generalizing is ironic

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, these men are not though

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

To the downvoters of this post: 🤏

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Moon Channel has 2 videos on this, pretty long ones beware, "gatcha drama and the Korean gender war" really worth watching because it's pretty crazy and there is a lot of stuff people need to know to start understanding how this even happened.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Amazing how dumb fucks continuously self report on their insecurities so publicly.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

Okay I'm starting to think the demographical collapse South Korea is going through might be deserved.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

They just proved the feminists right.

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