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Media freakout as South Korea elects first anti-feminist president who called for the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality
American Thinker ^ | 03/21/2022 | Edward E. Bartlett

Posted on 03/21/2022 8:53:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Last week's presidential election in South Korea featured two candidates who advanced radically different visions to the electorate.

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea campaigned on a platform of progressive policies such as 30% gender quotas for females. "I think it's very important to acknowledge the inequalities and issues of gender inequality that women suffer structurally in our society," he emphasized.

Lee's opponent was Yoon Suk-yeol of the conservative People Power Party. Yoon ran on an openly anti-feminist platform. He called for the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and accused its officials of treating men like "potential sex criminals." He promised to enhance punishments for false accusations of sexual violence. Yoon also charged that Marxist-inspired feminist ideology undermines healthy relationships between men and women.

Yoon's charges were buoyed by a 2021 poll in which 84% of Korean men in their twenties, and 83% in their thirties, said they had experienced "serious gender-based discrimination." And the anti-feminist group "New Men on Solidarity" reportedly has 15,000 Facebook followers.

Yoon's improbable campaign was propelled by outrage over a feminist group named Megalia that promoted an image of a thumb and index finger held closely together, seemingly mocking the size of the male genitalia.

Last Wednesday, Yoon emerged the winner, carried largely by male voters who felt marginalized by the Democratic Party's gender policies. An exit poll showed that 59% of men in their 20s and 53% of those in their 30s marked Yoon on their ballot paper.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: feminism; media; president; southkorea
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1 posted on 03/21/2022 8:53:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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South Korea is crying out for Regime Change.

(im not kidding)

2 posted on 03/21/2022 8:54:53 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently the feminazi poison propaganda campaign has a couple of more generations to go in Korea. They need to back off and do it incrementally like they did in the USA, Canada, Europe, etc.


3 posted on 03/21/2022 8:57:11 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Great to see there are places where men are regaining their self respect.


4 posted on 03/21/2022 8:58:43 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Regime change by the woke US is in their future.


5 posted on 03/21/2022 8:59:43 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ministry of Gender Equality sounds very..... North Korean


6 posted on 03/21/2022 9:00:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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Yoon’s improbable campaign was propelled by outrage over a feminist group named Megalia that promoted an image of a thumb and index finger held closely together, seemingly mocking the size of the male genitalia.


They started it......................


7 posted on 03/21/2022 9:03:43 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalia


Radical group.....................


8 posted on 03/21/2022 9:07:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Yoon also charged that Marxist-inspired feminist ideology undermines healthy relationships between men and women”.

Interesting. I justbrea dlast night that was the same belief Hugh Hefner had, and although I know he had a poor reputation with his behavior with the opposite sex, especially now with the stories coming out from Secrets of Playboy, I do think he had a good point. The attraction of men to women being treated by feminists as if men are ‘potential sex criminals’ is an interesting and good point.

Although the ‘Playboy way of life’ is a bit dubious reference on Hef’s part.

“These chicks are our natural enemy,” Braudy recounted Hefner writing in his 1969 memo. “We must destroy them before they destroy the Playboy way of life.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hugh-hefner-feminism-playboy-brought-progress-mostly-destruction-002225524.html


9 posted on 03/21/2022 9:08:16 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm a Seoul Man
10 posted on 03/21/2022 9:09:56 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin
Ministry of Gender Equality sounds very..... North Korean PRC (Politically Repressive Canada) to me. There, frxed it.

"Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth" in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada) is Marci Ien, a former broadcaster.

11 posted on 03/21/2022 9:13:59 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please let this be a trend to rational thinking.


12 posted on 03/21/2022 9:14:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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A player in this article. A version of FR? They got something done?


13 posted on 03/21/2022 9:23:55 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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South Korea is crying out for Regime Change.”

True, once the Bidenistas get their way on Ukraine, it’s off to South Korea.


14 posted on 03/21/2022 9:29:04 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BenLurkin
Abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality will immediately re-institute slavery for millions of Korean Blacks!

Oh, wait...

15 posted on 03/21/2022 9:36:18 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

These are the actual statistics that compare the status of men and women in South Korea:

Life Expectancy: Men in South Korea have much shorter life spans than women: 80.5 years versus 86.5 years.

Occupational Deaths: A national survey of occupational deaths found higher mortality rates across the board. For example, among machine operators and assemblers, the mortality rate was 380 males per 100,000 workers, compared to only 158 females per 100,000 workers.

Suicide: In 2020, there were 35.5 male and 15.9 female deaths by suicide per 100,000 population — more than a twofold difference.
University Enrollments: In 2005, identical numbers of high school students enrolled in college. Since then, the gap steadily widened. By 2018, 73.8% of females, compared to only 65.9% of males, were enrolling in universities.

Dating Violence: A survey of dating violence among university students found that females were far more likely than men to be abuse perpetrators: 39.4% of females admitted to assaulting their partners, compared to only 24.7% of men.

The media’s reflexive hysteria over Yoon’s election reveals how the media consistently misrepresent the gender equality debate.


From the article. Media at work.


16 posted on 03/21/2022 9:39:23 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like Yoon is South Korea’s Trump.


17 posted on 03/21/2022 9:40:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s a broader lesson to be gleaned from the media’s hyperventilation over Yoon’s alleged “weaponization” of the gender equality debate. The reality is, the feminist movement long ago abandoned its quest for equal opportunity for women.


Concluding paragraph of article.


18 posted on 03/21/2022 9:40:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tough kim-chee, media!


19 posted on 03/21/2022 9:47:01 AM PDT by OrangeHoof ("Rust" may be the first movie where the blooper reel gets more viewings than the actual film.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fascinating!
Thanks for posting this!!!


20 posted on 03/21/2022 9:50:20 AM PDT by Zathras
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