Korean actresses have become chaebol playthings, Japanese women have become housewives, why in Japan and South Korea, the vigorous feminist movement has been carried out for more than 30 years, and the status of women has not only not improved, but also has a downward trend? Today I will tell you the truth through the fog of history.
1. Japan – The Rise of Feminism in the Great Bubble Era
Now when it comes to Japanese women, everyone's first impression is definitely that Japanese women don't have to work.
But in fact, more than 30 years ago, Women in Japan could not only work, but also compete for the food of major companies. At that time, Japan was at the peak of the economy, major companies in urgent need of highly educated talents, as long as you are a university graduate, regardless of gender, just graduated, the average will receive 2.86 offers, can not find a job in that era is an incredible thing, so Japanese women at that time have entered the workplace, to achieve the dream of economic independence.
With the improvement of economic income and changes in the social environment, Japanese women naturally have higher demand, many of which seem unreasonable today, but in that era it was popular, for example, the Japanese women's concept of love, when Japanese women generally believed that going out shopping should have at least three men to follow, one responsible for taxi, one responsible for inviting guests to dinner, the other responsible for shopping consumption, that is, the famous "three wallets" phenomenon, namely: coachmen, meal tickets, ATM.
What is even more amazing is that they will not choose any of these three people to become a life partner, because in their view of mate selection, the final destination must be left to their "original destiny", that is, a Japanese woman has four boyfriends who perform their duties, which is also a very common thing at that time.
In that era of drunken gold fans, Japanese men who wanted to pursue a woman had to pay a high price, flowers, romantic hotels, car delivery, high-end restaurants, expensive jewelry, almost the basic configuration of dating, if you can't do it, you will be looked down upon by women.
But even so, Japanese women are still not satisfied, after achieving educational fairness, employment fairness, marriage freedom, they still want to continue to fight for women's rights and interests, which would have been understandable, but the problem is that they themselves do not know what to fight for, money, they are not lacking, work, they also have, boyfriends, a lot of people chase, a person's basic needs are actually so much, they think about it, and finally found a new breakthrough, that is, "reproductive freedom."
They began to define marriage as the oppression of women, believing that if they did not have to get married and have children, women could gain a more valuable life. It was then that the Feminist movement in Japan began to completely change its flavor, because Japanese women were completely unaware of what a serious mistake they had made.
Why am I saying this is a mistake? Because it was from this step that the Japanese feminist movement pushed itself to the opposite side of the entire society.
Because against marriage, in essence, is the resistance to the opposite sex, with this goal, they look at how Japanese men look unpleasant, the men on the tram inadvertently have physical contact with them, they call the police to say sexual harassment, scold others are "idiots", originally such incidents are still very rare, but with the implementation of the feminist movement throughout Japan, the news of "tram idiots" frequently broke out everywhere, the police repeatedly sent police, miserable, in order to solve this problem, and finally Japan took the lead in proposing the concept of "ladies priority carriages", If the two sides of the man and woman are directly physically separated, not in the same space, there must be no harassment.
The physical separation of men and women in public was only the first step, and when Japanese feminist activists discovered that they could no longer resist men in a physical way, they invented a new way of reporting, and in 1991, a female employee in Tokyo, Japan, took her boss to court on the grounds that her boss frequently emailed herself, constituting a freedom violation and requiring huge compensation.
At that time, the office environment in Japan also began to become strange, because of the fear of being reported and harassed, Japanese male employees tried to avoid looking at female colleagues for a long time during working hours, and even some men refused to sit with female colleagues to work, on the grounds of "preventing violations of the law".
Seeing here, whether you are a man or a woman, you must also think that this is too outrageous, right, at that time, Japanese society also began to feel that something was not quite right, just in this period, a change in Japan's national fortunes happened, in 1995, the Japanese bubble burst, a large number of enterprises went bankrupt, employees were unemployed.
When the economic downturn requires layoffs, women due to physiological differences, in the energy can not compete with men, coupled with the previous feminist movement, so that the entire society is noisy, male bosses do not even dare to send mail to female subordinates, in the resonance of a variety of factors, The Japanese women's employment environment has a turning point, a large number of Japanese women lost their jobs and returned to the family.
Therefore, Japanese women do not have to work is actually a helpless move, which is not a good thing, because giving up the right to work, it means that Japanese women give up the right to economic independence, when a Japanese woman's greatest wish is to become a housewife after graduation, it means that she does not have to receive too high education, after high school to find a rich person to marry.
In other words, giving up the opportunity to work will make women lose their economic autonomy and the right to receive more higher education that may be lost in the future, so female friends, we must be wary of those statements in society that encourage you not to work, that is not helping you.
As the bubble burst, not only Japanese women lost their jobs, but also some Japanese men who were not competitive enough, who did not have jobs, lay flat, and became saints with no desires and no needs.
When feminist activists say they don't deserve to be married, they reply, "Right, right, right, so I don't get married." ”
Feminist activists say they harass women, and they reply, "Right, right, right, so I don't go out." ”
In the face of this group of men who can't get in the way, feminist activists are suddenly confused, because a person who doesn't have hope in his life, what else can you expect from them?
Some people say that then give up this group of people who are eliminated by society, Japanese women also think so, they set their sights on Japanese men with successful careers, but the men who can still "survive" in the bursting of the bubble are naturally superior, women with excellent conditions will walk into the palace of marriage with these people, as for women with general conditions, they must not look at it, coupled with the unmarried atmosphere created by the Japanese feminist movement before, resulting in a large number of women with ordinary conditions in Japan can not find a partner, So there is a situation where Japanese men lie flat today, and women do not fall in love and do not marry.
2. South Korea – The Magical Reality of the New Economic Era
Like Japan, South Korea has also seen a vigorous feminist movement, and the feminist movement in South Korea is very fierce, which is the most in the world.
In 2018, there was a stir in South Korea, when a Korean boy was secretly photographed and posted on the Internet by a female model when he was a mannequin, and finally the case was exposed, and the police intervened to solve the case at the speed of light, and it took only 12 days to catch the female suspect.
This incident looks ordinary, but it has caused the collective anger of Korean women, why? Because they think that when the victim is a man, the police only take 12 days to solve the case, but if the victim is a woman, the police often drag on for a year and a half, which is a different treatment of women.
What does this little thing mean? It shows that the resistance to women in South Korea is very deep, and even the judiciary has a bias when handling cases, and the reason for this has to start from the Korean feminist movement more than a decade ago.
South Korea's economy developed slightly later than Japan's, and thanks to the take-off of China's economy, South Korea's economy has also achieved a second take-off since the beginning of the 21st century, so South Korea's feminist movement is actually a little later than Japan.
Although the time is a little later, the feminist movement in South Korea is very strong. Japan is still only against harassment and marriage oppression, and South Korea's extreme feminism has even put forward slogans of "killing baby boys" and "hurting fathers".
Megalia, a radical feminist community that closed in 2017, is a very serious "male-hating organization", the speech in it is too bloody, it is chilling to watch, it can be said that if the feminist rights in other countries are still only working for equal rights for men and women, then South Korea's extreme feminism is to achieve a world with only women.
Therefore, in the face of the attack of Korean feminist activists, Korean men did not choose to lie flat like Japanese men, they hardened to the end, and chose to use magic against magic.
When Korean women proposed that childbearing should not be just a matter for women, Korean men immediately agreed, and at the same time proposed that military service should not be just a matter for men, and that men and women should be equal.
When Korean women ask men to go out to dinner, Korean men say that meal money AA, women question, men suddenly ask: "Don't you mean that men and women are equal?" You want to take advantage of me? ”
When Korean women proposed that the marriage law needed to be improved, Korean men deliberately expressed surprise: "Marriage is the oppression of women, do you even want to get married?" ”
What is more interesting is that under the impetus of feminist activists, South Korea introduced a law in 2013, and the South Korean Police Department informed all citizens: "If you ask to meet more than three times or associate with the opposite sex, you can be punished as the target of assault." ”
That is to say, Korean men can only pursue women about 3 times at most, and more than 3 times they have to enter the game. Originally, feminist activists were to prevent women from being harassed by perverts and harassment, but they did not expect that this gave Korean men an excuse not to talk about love, when their parents asked why they did not get married, Korean men directly said that it was more illegal.
Moreover, this also violates the rights of some Korean women, after all, they do not want to get married, they do not want to fall in love, and there are other parts of Korean women who still yearn for love and marriage, but after the introduction of this law, Korean men have become very simple and rude in love: "I will ask you, what do you think of me?" You can be everywhere, you can't worship everywhere. "After all, it's also to avoid crime."
In this way, love becomes completely unromantic, and women lose the capital of conservatism, because as long as you show a little hesitation, Korean men immediately change direction.
So a rift began to appear within the feminist movement in South Korea because it violated its own vital interests.
Externally, there was collective opposition from men, and different voices appeared internally, so in 2018, the support of the South Korean feminist movement plummeted, with 75% of young men explicitly opposing it. Now, South Korea has reached the point of "smelling the color of feminism", and everyone is worried about being labeled as a pro-feminist.
The feminist movement has been vigorously carried out in South Korea for decades, women's social status has not been improved, female stars from Jang Ziyan, Lee Eun Joo to Choi Shirley, either abused to death or cut their wrists to commit suicide, the whole society no one stood up to preside over fairness.
The only change is that South Korea's fertility rate plummeted, becoming the lowest birth rate in the world, according to the latest news, South Korea's fertility rate hit a record low, in 2020 has seen negative growth, South Koreans will disappear completely after 500 years, in order to boost fertility, the South Korean government had to propose "two free rents".
But does this really work? I think it's hard to change.
Looking at the feminist movement in Japan and South Korea, I think the key reason for the decline is that the feminist movement in Japan and South Korea has blindly expanded.
It is necessary to distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy. Whether it is to solve workplace discrimination or protect women's rights and interests, we must make it clear that what causes this situation is not the male colleagues next to you and the male passers-by on the side of the road, the bottom men do not have the right to make rules, attack and run on them, will not bring you more rights and interests, will only cause a backlash like Japan and South Korea.
Still that sentence, the problem of differences between men and women, in essence, is an economic problem, in the 80s of Japan's rapid economic development, the rapid development of the Korean economy in the early 21st century, such problems are not prominent, because the cake continues to grow, men and women can enjoy the dividends of the times, but with the bursting of the Japanese bubble, South Korea's economic growth slowed down after 2008, when the cake can not continue to grow, the distribution problem has become a sharp problem.
Another point is that whether it is Japan or South Korea, as long as it is a country with prominent male and female problems, there is a figure of the United States behind it.
I hope that in the future, in the face of such problems, try to be calm and peaceful, it is always right to be more vigilant and think a little more about everything, otherwise it is easy to be shot by people with ulterior motives (source: NetEase).
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The state of Japan's bubble years
Young South Korean men launched an anti-feminist movement, with more than three-quarters of men opposing women's rights