Jesus South Korea
People are calling it “the gender war”, and it’s like GamerGate times ten. I shit you not it started with a Gacha game developer releasing a “summer skin” of a female character that pissed off the gamers by not showing enough skin.
Look, I’ll defend games as a medium and art form all day, but I’ll also advocate for a special extra-painful for gacha devs and fans
I think games can be art just like 2D images can be art. Not everything produced within a certain medium has to be considered art. I don’t consider corporate logos or banner ads art in the same way I don’t consider gacha games art.
My two cents on this issue: I’m a white dude who taught ESL in South Korea for years, I married into a Korean family, I speak Korean, I also haven’t been in South Korea for seven years. What I’ll say is: it’s hard being a woman in South Korea, and there is little reason to get married if you happen to be one.
You’re expected to work a prestigious full-time job, provide for your husband (sex, three meals a day, therapy), have two kids (hopefully boys, and you might get an abortion if your doctor genders your fetus as female), and also, on top of all of this, you need to care for your husband’s elderly parents, sometimes intensively.
As for the men, their situation also sucks, but the ones shifting to the right are choosing to blame the real victims (women) rather than the system (and the American occupation) that has put them in this shitty situation. Men need to spend about two years of their youth in the military, where they are abused (your buddies hold you down while your CO spits in your mouth), and where you run the risk of dying or getting maimed in an “accident.”
In high school, everyone needs to be on campus at 8AM, and people aren’t really allowed to leave until 9PM, five days a week. They get six hours of sleep each night, possibly giving themselves brain damage from sleep deprivation, catching up on sleep in class (teachers don’t care) or on the weekend. Men also face poor job prospects (it’s almost impossible to get into a “good” school or get a “good” job) and a more or less pointless existence in a country that has been occupied by the USA since 1945. I’m not excusing their rightward shift, I’m just trying to provide a little perspective. People there are generally in favor of the DPRK (leaving it alone, at the very least) but they hate Japan, China, and the USA. Rightwing presidents tend to end their careers in prison; liberal presidents usually give money to the DPRK and are therefore better than standard Western liberals. Even if South Korea is part of the imperial core, it’s right at the edge, and has come very close to a successful lasting communist revolution multiple times since 1945.
how the fuck are American men getting more conservative since the 2010s
what the fuck silly specs are they looking at the world through (I am aware that the answer is patriarchy)
It’s mainly YouTube/social media. It’s on 24/7 for zoomers and younger. What gets promoted on YouTube is all the conservative shitheads (because they have the most money invested in promoting their propaganda), and once you click on conservative commentators you get recommend fascists. Even if you click on 100% Marxist-Leninist stuff, it will recommend you conservative slop.
How can anyone be on the side that big tech social media algorithms push for HARD, and think they’re on the side of the “good guys”?
Is this really what the study shows? The BI article makes that claim but doesn’t show any data besides a contradictory graph that shows young men identifying as “liberal” has stayed roughly the same. Yes, the gap between young men and women has increased, but I’m a little skeptical that young men overall have been shifting right compared to previous generations.
Yeah idk, something seems off about this data. The UK results are especially weird, I’m not ready to just accept these results. It’s also trying harmonize results from different polls. Might be a broad trend in the US of young women becoming more liberal faster but the idea that young men are more conservative than they were years ago, not sure about that.
This too conveniently falls into reactionary narratives about women.
I can’t view the FT page. Is this multiple studies or just one? Who did the studies? That might give some hints if there is some intent behind publishing the study or studies.
American men are told they need to be the strongest, cleverest either because they need to stand out against dei hiring and admissions policies, amongst their peers in the dating environment or simply live up to an idealized male.
Conservatives address that need directly, leftists do not.
Its almost like women don’t want to be property
Only slightly more men are moving to the right in most places, it’s more due to women moving much more in the opposite direction. Which is very understandable due to open hostility towards women being pretty much mainstream on the right now.
I just realised that the massive increase in German women’s conservatism starting in 1990 is because of German reunification
No, not really. East Germany was not particularly more conservative than the West, with the exception of the 1990 election. In fact, as the 90s went on it had a higher vote share for left wing parties, especially the successor of the SED.
It was however, more nationalistic. Leading to the current situation where the far-right is hegemonic there, including the rejection of causes left-liberals hold dear.
The annexation of East Germany didn’t really change much in West German politics tbh - and the organizations that were strongly supportive of the GDR (DKP, etc.) were always a marginalized group of troublemakers - by 1990 the neoliberals were growing in popularity in the SPD anyway, and the left wing of the Green Party was realizing that the group had become a lost cause. So not much noticeable change there either.
Eh. It was a nationalism-fest, with Kohl being promoted as the “Chancellor of Unity”, the chant of the 1989 protests “We are the People” being changed into “We are one people”, prosperity being promised, etc., etc.
The SPD underperformed expectations, and the SED/PDS (and later just PDS) won in East Berlin, performed in double digits everywhere (within the east. The highest they got in the west is like 1,0% in Bremen), but the CDU got 53% in Saxony. That place is a reactionary hotbed to this day, which is a shame. Leipzig, Dresden and Görlitz are really nice cities.
