MapleStory: 'I got rape threats over claims I put feminist symbol in video game', says South Korea designer
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Young male gamers in South Korea thought it resembled a gesture used to poke fun at the size of men’s penises.

“There were insults I’d never heard before, they were disgusting and inhumane,” said Darim, which is not her real name. One read: “You’ve just sabotaged your job.”

  • Syl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What’s with east Asia and their fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism is? In this article, they think that making fun of penis sizes is feminism.

    As a genshin player, I’ve read multiple posts from Chinese and Korean players on reddit, back when I was still on there, where they refer to the weirdest things as feminism. Sometimes they are against the thing. Sometimes they are for it. But it just doesn’t have anything to do with feminism but they keep calling it feminist.

    • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      to be fair feminism has had very little to do with feminism for quite awhile so it’s easy to project pretty much anything onto it.

      edit: of course in Korea it still has something to fight, so I would assume it’s actually what it says on the tin still.

      • CandleTiger@programming.dev
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        2 months ago

        If you think feminism is accomplished and has nothing left to fight for in the USA and Europe then you are not very observant.