The topic of women's rights, men's rights and gender confrontation has become the new battleground of internet opinion after the issue of the rice circle.

As many of you will have noticed, every day when you open the home page, there are a lot of news and reports and comments that start to hate each other. And this wave is beginning to move from online to offline.

But what people may not yet realise is that the consequences of this series of problems go far beyond that.

The same problem was actually played out decades ago in Japan, Korea, Europe and the US, to three different, but not quite good, ends.

So, in order to dissolve the hatred and antagonism as much as possible, to defend the good tradition of equality between men and women in our country, to stop someone from driving backwards under the moral flag, and to defend the modern life of all of us, I am here to summarise in full the history and lessons learned from the gender antagonism in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, in the hope that we can learn from history and not step into the same pit.

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1 Japan, which lies flat off the hook

Many people have heard of Japan's gender dichotomy and the end of the collapse of women's rights with all men lying flat, but this description is actually not very accurate, not to mention the socio-economic level of the reasons behind.

The gender dichotomy in Japan started thirty years ago during the Heisei era.

Many people have wondered why there was no feminist movement in Japan and Korea despite the low status of women.

The answer is "there was."

In the 1980s, there was a boom period in the Japanese economy before the bubble burst...

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before the bubble burst

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The rise in economic income and employment has been accompanied by a surge in feminist thinking in Japan. How high was it? The Japanese female narrative at the time was that a woman should have four boyfriends: the errand boy, the bill-payer boy, the gift boy, and, well, the honcho. When women were invited to dinner, it had to be a fancy restaurant for 50,000 yen or more, and they had to go to fancy hotels and give expensive jewellery.

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I am a new age independent and outstanding woman, of course you have to show sincerity if you want to chase me. There was even a term for this phenomenon - relationship capitalism.

Later, along with the economic development, it was further developed into the "Heisei New Woman".

The difference between the New Heisei Women and the Capitalism of Love was that they did not even want to fall in love.

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The idea of the New Heisei Women was not to get married and to ignore men. We women are beautiful, we have to help each other, men are "stinky men", we women have to pursue "freedom", we encourage women to get married? That is a conspiracy by men to squeeze us women through marriage.

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In short, you can understand relationship capitalism as the wave of feminism that demands a bride price.

The new women of Heisei understand it as the wave of feminism that is anti-bride price and emphasises the rights of the workplace at the social level.

But despite the differences, there is a general agreement, a common condemnation of male perpetrators in any case, a common opposition to sexual harassment, and an opposition to discrimination in the workplace.

Doesn't this seem like a good development for the new women of Heisei?

But the problem is that, slowly, Japanese women's rights are beginning to appear to expand, or, as one group gets a sense of superiority over another, they tend to move towards discrimination and antagonism.

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I am a noble new Heisei woman, you are an ordinary Japanese man, where do you get the right to stand with me?

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If a man touches a woman on the underground for any reason, he is called an idiot, and if a leader sends an email to a female subordinate, it is sexual harassment in the workplace. Even if a colleague in the office looks at me, I can interpret it as a sign of misconduct.

In a way, Japanese feminism has taken a turn for the worse, calling men all QJ offenders. Or, rather, it is easier to spread and more easily understood by all than the previously academic and discursive feminist thinking. - Whoever has a cheaper ticket to the kingdom of heaven will have more believers

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All kinds of amplification and even smear cases were also the order of the day in public opinion at the time. This is why the invention of women-only carriages was not first seen in the Middle East, for example, but first in Japan, where it was thought that direct physical segregation would solve these problems well. With physical isolation, women didn't have to worry about demented men and men didn't have to worry about social death, so I'm asking if you're perfect.

But the problem is that the bubble years are over and the lost 20 years have arrived. Many articles introduced here will give the conclusion that Japanese men lie flat and that feminist demands collapsed straight away after losing their buyers.

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But in fact the change in social thinking is not so simple. Behind the social phenomenon, the essence is still a change in the economy and industry. The essence of the development of feminism in Japan was actually the urbanisation dividend brought about by the country's economic development, when Japanese companies were willing to pay a high premium. Male university students were given high salaries straight out of school, and female students were also given high salaries out of school.

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(\"Daily News\", 1989, a college girl with a happy face at the inauguration ceremony of Mitsui Corporation)

When women move out of the productive environment of the past into the metropolis and are given complete economic freedom, they naturally begin to fire at the parts of the past that may have bound them to tradition. I can live in Tokyo alone on my salary and have enjoyed the modern life and all the rich entertainment in Tokyo, and you want me to go back home and get married? How can I live the way I used to live and follow the rules of the past? Why?

The economic base determined the superstructure, and changes in production relations led to changes in thinking.

In fact, not only women, but also young Japanese men were turning their backs on the traditions of the past, and it was during this period that the otaku, for example, emerged. In today's terms, young men and women in Japan at the time denounced tradition, denounced their families of origin, and posted posts about how "all parents are scourges" (is that too similar?).

Why were women more vocal? Because male university students are just at the age of love and marriage, there is a lot of consumption piled on girls, and the superposition is that the purchasing power of young women at that time is terribly high, which is the source of the legend of the four purses. Strong purchasing power inevitably led to discourse. Fashion magazines are all about luxury goods, and their main buying group is basically young women, so fashion magazines naturally turn to compliment women.

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