Posted on 01/01/2022 4:27:10 PM PST by Theoria
They have shown up whenever women rallied against sexual violence and gender biases in South Korea. Dozens of young men, mostly dressed in black, taunted the protesters, squealing and chanting, “Thud! Thud!” to imitate the noise they said the “ugly feminist pigs” made when they walked.
“Out with man haters!” they shouted. “Feminism is a mental illness!”
On the streets, such rallies would be easy to dismiss as the extreme rhetoric of a fringe group. But the anti-feminist sentiments are being amplified online, finding a vast audience that is increasingly imposing its agenda on South Korean society and politics.
These male activists have targeted anything that smacks of feminism, forcing a university to cancel a lecture by a woman they accused of spreading misandry. They have vilified prominent women, criticizing An San, a three-time gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics, for her short haircut.
They have threatened businesses with boycotts, prompting companies to pull advertisements with the image of pinching fingers they said ridiculed the size of male genitalia. And they have taken aim at the government for promoting a feminist agenda, eliciting promises from rival presidential candidates to reform the country’s 20-year-old Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
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South Korea is reckoning with a new type of political correctness enforced by angry young men who bristle at any forces they see as undermining opportunity — and feminists, in their mind, are enemy No. 1.
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They must be familiar with Rush Limbaugh’s #24.
Bwahahahaha!
Thud! Thud!, out with the broads!
Well, you can’t have yang without the yin. Or yin without the yang.
Thud, Thud. I think I understand Korean.
There’s nothing feminine about feminism, just a bunch of broads who are upset that they can’t pee standing up.
Redpilled MGTOWers.
Maybe they are taking ques from China, which is pushing masculinity?
men who prefer their women to be feminine?
oh the horrors!
/sarc
Is South Korea a nice place to live? Asking for a friend.
If only American men had the same reaction in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. We very likely would not be in the Deep Kimchi we currently find ourselves in, in this country.
Instead, a great many American “men” joined with the feminists and got in touch with their “feminine side” as demanded by the feminists.
We have way too much yin and not enough yang ... out of balance ...
In nearly 50 years the gender “discrimination” pendulum has swung far, too far in the opposite direction from where it was in the 1960s. I hope it will not take South Korea 50 years for the pendulum to swing back just into a balance between the 1960s and today, neither uber feminist nor uber macho (as it was in the 1960s).
I had a Korean friend who was as close to me as a brother. I spent time with him and his family. His mom did all the work around the place while his dad, when he was home, sat and talked and drank and smoked with his neighborhood cronies.
I also knew some 20s something female professionals who were coming out of that mold, with college degrees and white collar jobs. But _I think those women had made it through college before western influenced feminist and gender “studies” had made it into the curriculum.
So, it is okay to hate men?
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