What the actual fuck. I'm mostly sharing this article because it left me speechless. I kinda had to take 3 attempts to even pull through with reading the whole article. I had to think of a female friend i once knew and about how she would feel in all this. It's just ... maybe the article exaggerates a lot ... i hope.

He later admitted he had singled out On because of her short hair.

There’s a lot of very confusing toxic masculinity stuff in Asia. This man obviously has mental problems.

the anger exploding online reflects deeper societal shifts. She traces young men’s discontent to South Korea’s embrace of neoliberalism. “Before democratisation, when military regimes ruled Korea, the government could create stable jobs,” she says. “Up to the late 80s, men with only a college education could get jobs in good companies. The economy was expanding rapidly.” But by the mid-90s those men were being laid off and “when social hierarchy changes, groups used to more powerful or privileged positions will respond with intense emotional reactions to their loss of status and respect”

Seems to me there is a whole lot of anger simmering in general, and misogyny is one way of expressing this, especially when they status of the social groups are shifting in relation to each other. For some men, losing status is an existential crisis.

The same dynamic plays out in other countries, but also includes other targets like gay, foreigners, ...

Of course politics doesn't handle unexpected consequences and long term effects well and at worst will exploit it for their own gains instead of defusing this.

Capitalism. That's always the answer.

Both men and women are miserable because they both feel like they need to be something they're not in order to appease the other.

Men, you don't need a high paying job.

Women, you don't need to disrespect yourselves.

It's because SK men have become incredibly conservative in the recent generation while SK women now want the non-traditional norms of respect and personal freedom. Conservative ideas forcing people to be something they don't want to be is causing a rift. Authoritarians continue to fuck up shit.

This was an amazingly frustrating ride, what the heck. I feel like somebody punched me in the gut then set me on a rollercoaster that went underwater or something.

I don't even know where to start. I always kinda assumed feminism was a kinda good movement because women want rights and also conveniently it can be used to distract people from class war issues, which is why it's pushed by the media.

But South Korea ... what the actual fuck. What the actual fuck, i'm speechless.

Do these people not see people as people? How can you focus so much on someone's sex/gender. Where is the fairness in this?

Was propoganda a factor there?

Funny how, when women are unhappy, they're told they're too emotional, need therapy, need medication, need to work on themselves. And when men are unhappy, it's someone else's fault.

Women are not responsible for your happiness. Grow the fuck up. If you are a worthless pos incel loser--- start there, that is the reason no woman wants you. Lastly, why the fuck do you think you "deserve" to have a woman? Women aren't things to own, moron. Work on yourself because that is where happiness will start.