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Maybe more positive coverage of what mainstream Korean feminist groups ARE doing might help? They've been active and achieved a lot, but I see very little discussion of that. metoo got discussed, but mainstream S. Korean feminist groups? @chelseassii/994145427061587968Permalink On twitter.com
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(Let alone the crap they have to struggle with partisan and sexist political types who try to cut off their funding, or pick sides and support one local group and try disenfranchise or effectively shut down the other.)On twitter.com
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Anyhow, honestly I have to say, Han Seo-Hee's comment is pretty much the first thing that crossed my mind. Revenge porn's been epidemic (& very under-addressed) in S. Korea for ages now. But how to get it discussed? Inflict it on a man, apparently. scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2115260/south-koreas-digital-laundry-industry-fighting-revenge-porn-onePermalink On twitter.com
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According to that article, 140 women a MONTH were signing up with that one company alone to have online revenge porn of themselves searched for and taken down back in 2017. Most men caught doing it only paid a fine. Most women have to pay their own money to get it handled, too.Permalink On twitter.com
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Maybe the guy's exaggerating, but even if he's off by an order of magnitude, that's TONS of women going through what this one guy went through. Why is *his* case getting so much attention? (As if we don't all know the answer.)Permalink On twitter.com
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Where were the petitions and all the anxious opinions about criminal misogyny last year, or the year before? Part of why people are up in arms about this because right now it because it's a male victim and a (self-described) "feminist" perpetrator. Oooh, feminist: scary! (Sigh.)Permalink On twitter.com
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That's not to justify this WOMAD member's crime, which is awful, but... this one case is a man-hating droplet in a misogynistic ocean, and the immediate institutional reaction and the breathlessly terrified overreaction in the press kind of proves the obviously twisted point:Permalink On twitter.com
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To a lot of minds, "The suffering of one [man] is a tragedy, the suffering of a million [women] is a statistic." That's what the reaction to this incident makes painfully obvious. Also, that lots of people are eager to conflate the most extreme group with "feminism" in general.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's a standard playbook move for disenfranchising a movement: "You're only as valid as the most despicable person who claims membership in your broad movement." Uh, no. The key is to refuse and resist that generalization, and shed light on the rest of the movement.(Sigh, again.)Permalink On twitter.com