South Korea’s Misogyny

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7 pointsandrewl4 comments

It's curious--it seems that while Western or Asian developed countries have an increasing distaste for perceived misogyny, other countries get a pass.

I wonder what the situation is in places like Southeast Asia, if they deal with the same sorts of issues and to what degree.

I also wonder if the NYT would write the same thing decrying treatment of women in fundamentalist Middle Eastern areas--it'd be even more interesting if they could compare the treatment. It may well be, for example, that perceived overt oppression (body covering, travel regulation, curfews, etc.) is actually less severe than the sort of covert discrimination shown about South Korea.

The NYT are in favor of 'diversity', as long as it's 'diversity' as practiced by white Western liberals.

Otherwise, it's all 'misogyny', or 'racism', or 'homophobia', or what-have-you.

Kind of sounds like homogeneity to me.

And last I checked, the president of South Korea was female.

> And last I checked, the president of South Korea was female.

To be fair, we have an African-American in the White House, and his people are still having a lot of trouble in the US.

That's not a good metric.

An even better question is, would they ever print an article about the misandry (hatred of men) here in the U.S.?

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