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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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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 days ago

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

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago

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

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

They just proved the feminists right.

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

To the downvoters of this post: 🤏

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 16 points 3 days 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

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Men are fine, the "Gamer" culture is toxic

Just go to any multiplayer FPS game, and you have right wing shit in the chat. 🤦‍♂️

[–] redisdead@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Please.

Just go to any place and you have right wing shit in the chat/comments/etc. 'Gamers' aren't any more toxic than the average population.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, because all those dumbfucks you see on twitter who probably don't even know how to grab a gamepad are fine...

Many men (and women) are not ok. They are either ignorant or evil (or both) enough to think that the middle age was a great time to be alive. And today, they are free to say it on the internet without the risk of being ostracized or ridiculed because "all opinions must be respected".

You're confusing people who play video games with g*mers

No, no they are not. Clearly.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, these men are not though

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days 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 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Trump's sure making the planet a better place...