South Korea is a contradictory country.
Behind the policy of building a country with culture, there are various cultural exports, but behind the gloss, there are prototype cases as dark as Suyuan, female artists who are played to death by capital, and the evil incident of Room N.
They subvert our three views again and again, and we are always indignant about these darknesses, but we are always powerless to do anything about it.
This time there was another magical event.
The cause of the incident originated from a poster of a convenience store with the theme of camping.
At first glance, there is no problem, starry skies, fields, tents, campfires, and protagonist sausages, very normal commercial posters, right?
No, the hand is not right, the posture of the fingers is not correct, to be precise.
This pose is too much like the Megalian logo.
Here, the director wants to simply popularize Megalia, a radical feminist online community founded in 2015 and headquartered in South Korea.
Megalia claims that its logo gesture logo resembles an equal sign shape and means "the pursuit of equality."
But in a poll, most people believed that the hand shape was actually the usual way to indicate "small" and was intended to belittle the genitals of South Korean men.
It is well known that South Korea and North Korea are at the bottom of the global male size rankings, and even the 10-centimeter mark cannot be exceeded.
But I never expected that this matter would actually be taken so seriously by Korean men? Still can't say no?
It even evolved into a political event...
Lee Joon-seok, 36, the head of South Korea's largest opposition national power party, has his biggest label as "anti-feminism," accusing feminists of unfairly treating South Korean men at the expense of the latter and arguing that young men are now being discriminated against on the contrary.
His famous remark was that "radical feminism is as toxic as terrorism." ”
The convenience store poster incident also caught the attention of Lee Joon-seok, who has publicly stated, "We need to be explained." ”
So, as soon as the incident came out, GS Convenience Store quickly revised the poster and apologized, and the designer also came out to explain, saying that "I did not think that the gesture symbolized feminism or the Megalia community" and stressed that there was absolutely no male hatred.
But the moves have failed to quell the anger of male South Korean netizens.
At the end of May, GS Retail CEO Zhao Yunsheng was fired and held responsible for the matter.
Originally thought that this matter would end here, I never expected that to this day, the incident is still escalating rapidly.
The recently released "Black Widow" grossed 80 million in North America in two days.
However, in South Korea, it was cut because the widow sister used this gesture in the film.
Korean men feel insulted, so they all post wildly to show resistance...
Surprisingly, the storm also affected vaccination posters.
On June 24, the official account of Pohang City, South Korea, released a vaccine propaganda poster, and the gesture of holding a syringe on the poster was questioned by netizens for the same reason (alluding to male body parts).
In the end, pujiang city government staff apologized and deleted the poster.
Even when a member of the Korean girl group posted a photo of her and her friends taking in the dance practice room.
It didn't take long for the story to be reported for deletion on the grounds that "it was deleted for excluding or torturing others."
Seeing this, I believe that everyone, like reasonable Korean netizens, feels that this country is not collectively crazy?
A small gesture can actually cause such a large Korean circle earthquake.
Fortunately, Qingyou 2 is not broadcast in South Korea, otherwise those men with low self-esteem will see the stage of "A little bit" and will collapse to die on the spot...
It is estimated that I will go to the Blue House overnight to petition...
After all, our movements and expressions are quite in place.
Not only us, but even the Italians had to cut off contact with South Korea, after all, the Italians could not speak without this gesture.
So the question is, is it that as long as you make this gesture, you will be collectively banned by Koreans?
To tell the truth, this kind of story thrown into the absurd movie, will be spit on nonsense, fussy, inexplicable.
But South Korean men are "serious", and this outrageous and terrifying boycott movement, on the surface, is defending self-esteem, but it is also "misogynistic".
Yes, it is "misogyny" that penetrates deeply into the marrow of Korean society than misogyny.
This kind of boycott incident can't help but remind the director of a phenomenon-level Korean movie "Kim Ji-young born in 1982" that he and everyone recommended before.
This work tells the reality that Korean society despises or even ignores women, posing an unprecedented challenge to South Korea's deep-rooted patriarchy.
That year, after the film was released, it was wildly boycotted by Korean men, and on the day of release, the film was maliciously scored.
The average score of male netizens is 1.45 points, and the average score of female netizens is 9.19 points.
Not only that, in fact, as early as 2016, before the release of the film, when the novel was published, the book was defined by Korean men as "feminist".
Korean magic has always existed.
Most men stand up to boycotting, calling out "sexism" is nonsense.
The heroine of the movie, Zheng Yumei, was exposed on the Internet.
Pei Zhuyan, a member of the girl group, revealed at the fan meeting that she was reading "Jin Zhiying Born in 82" and was immediately boycotted and threatened by fans.
Xiuying, a member of the top girl group "Girls' Generation", was also besieged by online violence for recommending the book.
The struggle between men's rights and women's rights in South Korea is not a new thing, but what the factory director does not understand is that in essence, they have not correctly looked at this problem at all, but blindly go to the extreme.
For example, this "misogynistic gesture" incident, as well as the "Jin Zhiying born in 82" incident, the results are extreme resistance.
Even at every turn, it involves the Blue House.
South Korean male artist Lee Kwang-so once said to female artists in the program "Running Man" that "you are a flower snake" (cheating people out of money with beauty), but he was not silenced according to the program rating, which angered feminists.
His apology was not accepted, and radical netizens on the Korean network petitioned the Blue House to sentence him to death.
The petition was rejected by the Blue House because it was unreasonable.
Also a public figure who was "unjustified in petitioning" was Liu Yaren, who won the Qinglong Film Emperor twice.
The incident began with a reply on Liu Yaren's SNS, because one of the passages reads:
For men, it is the same as the phrase that men are only committed to men's human rights.
If you want to be respected and understood by others, you should not be limited to individuals, you should learn to respect others. That's why I say this.
He was dubbed a "misogynist" by critics and sparked a series of fierce war of words.
After three days of "online mutual intimidation incidents", Liu Yaren uploaded a long article through his own SNS that began with "I am a 'feminist'".
The history of war and religion, the "traditions" of male superiority and inferiority resulting from the combination of various human ideas, the tragedy of human society that has been re-caused by those traditions, are also displayed in my home like proud antiques. These peculiar, violent customs are thus revealed, but they cannot be proudly passed down from generation to generation.
Whoever it is, it was born out of my mother's womb, and the pain she experienced brought us into the world. If I wasn't a feminist, I wouldn't have the face to live, and my mom needed to be liberated.
The inability of me to forgive the brazen customs of being distorted by suspicion, and the era of displaying the relics of the old times, made me wonder. Isn't the pain of doubt and the fear of forming a sense of existence human?
All people are noble, not because he is a son, and a daughter is not humble. All children, children of their parents, are precious, and who is not?
——Excerpt from Liu Yaren's message
Yes, what we should expect is that gender is no longer a filter for certain things, and we are not fighting for privilege, but freedom for both sexes.
Don't do things that hurt others under the slogan of male power and feminism.
As Liu Yaren said: