South Korea’s presidential race puts misogyny in spotlight

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of many young women who feel that the country’s politics has become dominated by discrimination against women, even outright misogyny.

“Women are being treated like they don’t even have voting rights,” the 27-year-old office worker in the capital, Seoul

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[nekobot]

It's exhausting being confronted with this endless hatred of women but, and maybe I'm being too positive...the fact that these men are getting so vocal to such an extent means women over there are doing something right. I've read about more and more women completely passing on marriage and children with useless men because they have started to realise there's nothing but suffering in it for them and starting more female only businesses and initiatives and it seems like it can be directly attributed to the growing feminist movement. They're gaining ground and these guys are going absolutely ballistic in the process without considering the fact that women are still 50% of the population and actively trying to hinder them is going to bite them in the ass if they are even remotely dependant on public approval, already evident by the growing number of incels that now deservedly no longer have a dating pool that used to be able to count on getting a docile wife/live in maid because of social pressure. The thought of any of these guys in

[lechuza_yoya]

Men need to stop blaming women for the problems, face reality and work to change it.

[love_keiko]

fr. it's frightened that jobless men socially equals harassment against women. it's like how how white supremacy scapegoats POC in western countries when white men feel disenfranchised at POC gaining human rights.

misogyny in korea is out of control and no woman is left untouched. when i think about the circumstances that surrounded hara's death sometimes it leaves me enraged fr

[rosiemotleymind]

What gets me about men getting frustrated and angry with these policies and problems is that THEY ARE THE ONES WHO CREATED THEM! The call is coming from inside the house. But I’m happy that the feminist movement is making such big waves in South Korea and i hope that there will be further steps to protect women and give them better civil rights.

[nekobot]

That's the way of men! If they can choose between compromising and yielding a little bit to make everyone else's life (including their own) a -teensy- bit better or staying where they are as long as everyone else is guaranteed to suffer even more than them they will almost always choose the latter. They're straight up defective and sooner or later they're going to learn what happens when the people they're antagonising start to realise there's no point in trying to pander to people that are so dumb that they see compassion and basic common sense as personal faults.