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.
making derogatory comments about people’s penises is not feminist
It is called misandry.
That’s a bit of a loaded term though. I do agree that it promotes toxic male stereotypes, yes.
Yes, but that didn’t happen here.
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.
Well fair, but using toxic stereotypes, even ironically, doesn’t seem to be the way to dismantle that stereotype. It’s like if a woman made fun of a man for liking pegging, and I call her a whore. No one should value a person based on their genitals or how many people they sleep with.
Well that’s me sold on picking the bear
call me a racist but Korea is a cesspool
Most countries in the world suffer from deeply entrenched misogyny.
and they’re all cesspools
hi a_racist, I’m dad
Another episode in the series: “South Korea is a dystopian hellhole”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Major small-dick energy from these guys.
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
What a bunch of pussies. Sorry about your tiny cocks fellas but get over it.
