#MeToo is when people of different genders disagree with each other and the more they disagree the #MeTooer it is.
Also, the article is so fucking close to realizing that capitalism is causing the shitty economic situation in South Korea is pitting young people against each other.
The inability to see capitalism as an active force causes people to see this shit and think it's caused by some group or other (depending on which side of the culture war you're on) just inherently lacking virtue, as opposed to anything material.
I agree and I just want to add that it's almost certainly not just capitalism to blame. Plenty of non-capitalist societies also have problems with sexism, though here it's pretty clear that economic factors are exacerbating the issue.
I mean capitalism can be a factor but sexism in Korea is a lot older than capitalism in Korea. Pre-capitalist Korea (Joseon Dynasty) was not a great place for women
holy shit what a dogshit headline. MRAs diaping out about small dick jokes isn't the same as "a reverse #MeToo"
This article is dumb for a couple reasons but here's one that stood out to me:
It’s a phenomenon in line with an internet-fueled backlash against feminism that’s emerged in China, the United Kingdom and the U.S. especially among Gen Z men, many of whom charge that feminism has “gone too far”
Generation Z is ages 9 to 24 right now, and in my experience the MRAs fueling the backlash to feminism tend to be reddit guy Millenials and divorced guy Gen Xers.
Incels really can't tell the difference between Feminism and r/FemaleDatingStrategy can they.
In 2018, men and women came to blows at a pub in Seoul after an argument in which they yelled the insults popularized online at each other — the women shouting “6.9,” the average penis size of Korean men in centimeters, according to one 2003 study, and men retorting by calling them “Megal bitch.”
Holy shit koreans are way too online.
Could only get halfway through it. Gotta love how men say feminism has gone to far every time a woman uses a phrase leveled routinely at women, brushed off as "just a joke" every time they do it but it's a warcrime when a woman says it.
Idk that it's really representative of the average SK feminist. Theres like not even 5 thousand of them.
I mean the people on that site really are like the worst stereotype if a feminist from 2016 sjw cringe videos. Megalia got shot down a few years ago but there's an off shoot called "Womad" (portmanteau of woman+ mad) which is extremely terfy and homophobic. And supposedly users have posted stuff like, saying that they want to torture and kill male kittens because they hate males, or that they want to sexually abuse elementary school boys.
I guess most of that arises from being in a society which is genuinely pretty sexist, and I dont know if they mean it earnestly or are just trolling (or combo of both), but uhh. Kinda sus
But again, theres not very many of them. The average SK feminist just want legal abortion and equal treatment in the work place and such
Edit: even tho they are marginal, they do make a very convenient target for reactionaries who want to dismiss and discredit the feminist movement
It was embroiled in a number of accusations for mocking Korean War veterans and labor rights activists.
Womad is a land of contrasts.
