Wtf is going on over there? And more importantly… How?!

Also, are nearby countries dealing with this too? (China, Thailand, Mongolia, Vietnam, the rest of Southeast Asia…)

  • guolai@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 天前

    At least over in Thailand, not in the same intensity as it is over in South Korea but I do occasionally hear some inking of the messy gender war discourse in regards to China and Japan. It has been a while though.

    I’m sure someone smarter can likely trace the current messy situation between a mixture of confucianism (and it’s offshoots) and a hopeless capitalist system with no out.

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    7 天前

    Moon channel did a couple videos on the topic, TLDR: It’s a mixture of south korean capitalism making everyone supremely miserable, internalized sexism downstream from that fact, the existance of rather large progressive feminist movement making the higher ups of the samsung republic unconfortable, strict social heirarchies stemming from the reaction to japanese imperialism demanding that higher social groups suppress lower ones to maintain social cohesion, among other minor factors like gacha games and internet forums being cesspools

    https://youtu.be/-Im4YAMWK74

    https://youtu.be/woB0eecbf6A

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    7 天前

    from my understanding korea has a deep cultural thing about division of the genders. part of why transgender people struggle immensely in korea isnt outright malicious hatred, as much as it is jobs and society being so specifically and unnecessarily gendered. huge part of the blame goes to the United States because they pushed for very misogynistic laws during the occupation.

    it’s not to say that everyone is going through the same situation. i follow many korean influencers on instagram, mostly pet owners who post cute pets. i’ve noticed that every single one of them that isnt a flaming hot piece of shit has no trouble getting a girlfriend or wife. this one korean influencer i follow has flooded my feed with mostly baby videos and dad-baby content.

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    7 天前

    Idk, occupied Korea is on some crazy shit sometimes. No, you won’t find this anywhere else, except maybe Japan.

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      7 天前

      Japan is definitely as misogynistic as Wrong Korea, all the same preasures, demand for children, hyper-capitalist gender roles, pay gaps, rising incel culture exist in Japan. In one particular way Japan is worse than Wrong Korea as denying mass historical sexual violence against women is just a regular part of Japanese politics.