The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’

throwaway20210821 · 2022-01-01T23:53:45+00:00

Article seems to condemn men for not being as chivalrous as older men:

The backlash represents a split from previous generations.Older South Korean men acknowledge benefiting from a patriarchal culture that had marginalized women. Decades ago, when South Korea lacked everything from food to cash, sons were more likely to be enrolled in higher education. In some families, women were not allowed to eat from the same table as men and newly born girls were named Mal-ja, or “Last Daughter.” Sex-preference abortions were common.As the country has grown richer, such practices have become a distant memory. Families now dote on their daughters. More women attend college than men, and they have more opportunities in the government and elsewhere, though a significant glass ceiling persists.

“Men in their 20s are deeply unhappy, considering themselves victims of reverse discrimination, angry that they had to pay the price for gender discriminations created under the earlier generations,” said Oh Jae-ho, a researcher at the Gyeonggi Research Institute in South Korea.”If older men saw women as needing protection, younger men considered them competitors in a cutthroat job market.

Why do men have to pay?

https://archive.fo/8i3v6

and also treats the conscription of males as a side issue, trying to equate mandatory military service with domestic duties women have to do

Anti-feminists often note that men are put at a disadvantage because they have to delay getting jobs to complete their mandatory military service. But many women drop out of the work force after giving birth, and much of the domestic duties fall to them.

and treating men's issues as a culture war (similar to what both the left wing and right wing do in countries like the US)

On the other side of the culture war are young men with a litany of grievances — concerns that are endlessly regurgitated by male-dominated forums. They have fixated, in particular, on limited cases of false accusations, as a way to give credence to a broader anti-feminist agenda.

The article also seems to be trying to insinuate that these anti-feminist protests don't have merit and are instead due to economic insecurity, a similar argument used by left wingers to dismiss men's rights issues or recruit them for left leaning causes and away from men's rights activism.

Inequality is one of the most delicate issues in South Korea, a nation with deepening economic uncertainty, fed by runaway housing prices, a lack of jobs and a widening income gap.

Imo this explanation for the dissatisfaction of men is usually done to portray them as a threat that is taking out their misplaced anger on women or as uneducated and unintelligent (and so in some ways, almost shown as deserving to fall behind).

However, because men have organized, at least some politicians have started to take their concerns into account (although there is no mention of how mandatory military service for men plays into this, which is disappointing)

Yoon Suk-yeol, the candidate of the conservative opposition People Power Party, sided with the anti-feminist movement when he accused the ministry of gender equality of treating men like “potential sex criminals.” He promised harsher penalties for wrongfully accusing men of sex crimes, despite concerns it would discourage women from speaking out.

His Democratic Party’s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, has also tried to appeal to young men, saying: “Just as women should never be discriminated against because of their gender, nor should men suffer discrimination because they are men.”

Title	The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’
Author	remarkable4
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Date	January 1, 2022 11:39 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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