'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'
Young male gamers in South Korea thought it resembled a gesture used to poke fun at the size of men’s penises.
The headline makes it seem like it's just gamers but it's more about the overall gender divide in South Korea. It's a very interesting read. Men in South Korea feel like they're struggling to get by and women wanting fairer treatment is being seen as wanting to make things even more difficult for men. It seems like it's heading towards a tipping point.
One big issue is that military service is mandatory for men only so they feel they are being disadvantaged doing it while their women counterparts are getting degrees and established in the job market. That part seems like it could be solved by making it compulsary for both sexes like Israel does - assuming they want to keep up military service. I don't see how they can stop given their neighbours.
Another episode in the series: "South Korea is a dystopian hellhole"
Dudes doing this shit just ooze little dick energy... If you get so damned pissy about anyone pinching their fingers together, go jerk off to your podcasts and leave human beings alone.
making derogatory comments about people's penises is not feminist
Yes, but that didn't happen here.
Perhaps he's objecting to having the alleged hand gesture referred to as feminist. A bit of a quibble, but not completely baseless.
Then again it may not be fair to claim that whenever feminists do hurtful things in the name of feminism, that it's not real feminism. Feminism can do bad things too. Any philosophy can.
But it was the way the characters hand was positioned! No commentary, just a picture in a trailer for a cutesy game
The response is ridiculous, but not surprising
Yeah, the response is absolutely unacceptable, I'm just commenting on the article using the term feminist incorrectly. Feminism is not about being derogatory against people with penises.
The point isn't that someone has a tiny dick. The point is that someone is trying to overcompensate their toxic masculinity to account for it. Its like when someone speeds in a huge car in the middle of the city centre.
It is called misandry.
That's a bit of a loaded term though. I do agree that it promotes toxic male stereotypes, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74
Moon Channel has a really good breakdown of how bad things are in terms of gender equality in South Korea.
Another example: JaeJae was promoting chocolate and held a piece between two fingers - that was taken as clearly a sign of her hate for all men.
Major small-dick energy from these guys.
I just looked a bit more into this. There is a whole history of scrutinizing Nexon's material and then screen capping single frames of animation to "prove" they are sneaking in this "misandrist" hand gesture. Looking at a back log of these this is on the level of those people presenting a single frame of someone like Beyonce on stage, and claiming what they captured clearly shows she is making satanic hand gestures.
Korean anti-feminists are militant about this gesture.
I played a game last year and the same thing happened on that game too. Absolutely ridiculous stretch but the developer had to put out an apology (it was a Korean game)
These guys know they don't have to interact with shit they don't like right? If a game has something you don't like not only do you not have to play the game, but nobody is going to force you to do it. It's not like they were gonna play it anyway.
I mean, have you encountered these Real Gamers™ before? They go out of their way to be enraged at this stuff. It's all deliberate.
That's not exclusive to Real Gamers™
Rage is the only thing that makes them feel :<
Sad pathetic lives of socially separated and economically distraught young adults finding joy in the worst of humans ;(
The best part about this particular situation is the graph you can draw that shows an inverse correlation between their rage and their junk volume.
Nothing more disarming than "wow! You sure seem personally impacted by that allegation, is that a reaction that's happening often from lovers, friends or very close family members?"
Didn't realize MapleStory is still kicking around
Yea they did maple 2 and it flopped so they kinda fell back on the first and did a bunch of reboot and power level stuff to draw back the old v62 v83 crowd
I don't know the game but it has a korean comic adaptation coming out as well. I guess it helps promote it.
Its top 10 in Korean net cafe, the games been running for over 20 years from a billion dollar game company, its quite popular
Wow, these guys must have really small dicks!
Right about this big...holds up hand and shows "pinching" fingers
What a bunch of pussies. Sorry about your tiny cocks fellas but get over it.
Yet more evidence that G*mers should be bullied more.
Don't bully me, I'll come :(
The body shaming in these comments is fuckin wild.
Perhaps a) social media should not be anonymous and b) death threats should be illegal. I know I'm stating super obvious things here but given how this is still a thing...
a) social media should not be anonymous
I believe anonymous social media can work but only up to a certain size. Current system opens up societies to fabricated influence campaigns by the oligarchs, domestic and foreign state agencies, all kinds of organised whackos and just regular assholes with zero accountability. Whole setup is dying from a thousand cuts and at current going rate it doesn’t have much time left.
Says the guy, on anonymous social media. Be the change you want to see in the world
There's a marked difference between being the only non-anonymous person in a group of anonymous people and being a non-anonymous person in a group of other non-anonymous people.
In other words, no way am I even pretending to be that brave.
call me a racist but Korea is a cesspool
Most countries in the world suffer from deeply entrenched misogyny.
I'm not going to call Korea is a cesspool, but things do seem more desperate there. They're deep in late stage capitalism(I'm not endorsing NK btw), but still haven't been disillusioned by the promise and are looking to blame anything else. Somethings not right when Samsung Group accounts for around 22 percent of the GDP.
and they're all cesspools
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