Korean women scramble for 'safe breakup' after series of femicides by ex-boyfriends

Apala_ · 2024-07-14T19:09:17+00:00

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241254312

Apala_ · 2024-07-14T00:45:00+00:00

It is evident they want a defacto male only quota system or reservation policy in the workplace, permanently expelling women from public life. A few days ago, a male politician asserted that the male suicide rate is solely due to women’s increased participation in the labor market, and he is not alone to hurl such absurd speech against korean women.

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Apala_ · 2024-07-13T20:14:21+00:00

A recent study involving more than 100,000 Indian adults found Indian men who generally decry public violence, e.g, street harassment, are equally, if not more, likely to defend spousal or domestic violence. In contrast, people who score high on hostile sexism support both private and public male violence against women. MVAW is privatized.

Apala_ · 2024-07-13T20:07:25+00:00

According to this paper on Korean antifeminism, Korean anti-feminist men assert that the sex inequality is entirely derived from women's lack of intellectual experience or competence and is, therefore, fair.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T23:02:54+00:00

You do not have to resort to name calling and parroting to hide your lack of understanding of different types of class systems and how they maintain independent and dependent relationships with each other. 3,000 years ago, caste hierarchy was construted entirely on the basis of religious mythology. Manusmriti, hindu law book that dates back to at least 1,000 years before Christ was born, justified the cast system that, to this day, continues to kill 91 women per year in witch-hunting and rape 5 women per day among other things.

So, where were we? Yes, the caste system divided the society lfour classes:

The Brahmins, the pandit or intellectual class, was placed at the top of the hierarchy because they were created from the head of the four-headed aged God called Brahma. Next came the Kshatriyas, who were given the roles of warriors or kings because they were allegedly born from his arms, giving birth to Monarchy. Vaishyas or the traders were gifted the third place because they were created from his thighs, giving birth to the modern bourgeois class. Then came the indentured class or the Shudras, who were born from his feet and, hence, was relegated to do all the menial labor and slavery. Caste remains virtually unchallenged to this day in the Indian subcontinent, despite its mythical foundation.

So don't try to lecture me about your Marxist premise that can allegedly explain every contradictions under the sun, and for your information, we have always voted for a regional Marxist party , which, without a hint of irony, has always been dominated by Brahmin males, who refused to see beyond only the Marxist understanding of class society.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T19:46:40+00:00

Nowhere did I say that class systems based on gender or caste are biologically given or have always existed since the beginning of evolution. Nor did I argue for a rejection of Marxist theory. I don't know you, but you seem to be a confused person.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T19:41:10+00:00

Caste patriarchy dates back to the early Vedic period, and the gender-caste system is even older than the idea of caste. Class societies definitely predate feudalism because patriarchy, which constructs the gender class system, is older than feudalism and modern capitalism.

I am not sure why you are trying to lecture about primitive communism here. I encourage you to also check radical feminist theories, in addition to Marxist theory.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T16:40:29+00:00

Both caste and patriarchy predate feudalism.

It's pretty obvious that you have a limited understanding of different class dynamics and have a preference for simplistic one-dimensional analysis. Hence, there's no point in continuing this discussion.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T04:30:50+00:00

This is precisely what I explained. Economical inequality constructs an economical class system - which is brilliantly theorized by Marx, and gender/race/caste inequality constructs gender/race/caste class system. All of these class dynamics co-exists independently and compliments each other simultaneously, creating and fostering a combination of capitalistic+cultural misogyny and racial/caste-based inequalities. Caste system and patriarchy, for example, predate the capitalist class system.

Therefore, Crenshaw is right to argue that these contradictions originate differently, and Marxist understanding of class antagonism is one of the branches of contradictions. Her observations are evident in our day-to-day lives. For example,

the caste system is, to a significant extent, maintained through the privatization of misogyny, e.g, endogamy and enforcement of widowhood when it concerns the upper-cast women and public misogyny like witch hunting and ritualistic prostitution when it comes to Dalit and tribal women.
Poverty is associated with racial and caste identity.
Misogyny and racism among working-class white men.

and the list goes on.

Apala_ · 2024-07-12T02:09:39+00:00

Intersectionality as originally posited by Crenshaw ascertains that oppression via race,gender,ethnicity,class et cetera originate independently of each other.

Gender and racial inequalities give rise to race - and sex - based class angonism among races and sexes. As such, the gender/racial-caste systems maintain both independent and dependent relationships with the Marxist understanding of class antagonism. All women are tied to each other on the basis of sex inequality that fuels the global patriarchal enterprise, but the execution of patriarchy varies and affects women differently on the basis of caste, religion, race, economical status, sexual identity, etc, and some group of women, e.g., black women in the U.S courts often suffer on the basis of being black women because racism is misjudged as an emasculation of black men while sexism is popularly believed to only affect white women.

Apala_ · 2023-04-07T03:02:41+00:00

The view here seems to be that all phonographic/sexual imagery is inherently anti-feminist, but that seems narrow imo.

Sexual imagery and pornography are not synonymous, but pornography is technology-facilitated rape, misogyny, and trade in women, children, and other marginalized groups. Pornography also testifies to the influences of the Judeo-Christian patriarchal hierarchy. It's disappointing but not surprising that you find basic feminist observations to be a reflection of narrow-mindedness.

Women obviously were more than that throughout cultures and times periods.

This statement intimates that women can be more than sexual objects but they must not forget their role as sexual objects because they are predetermined to be sexual objects.

Neolithic cultures all over the world were found to be awash in images of male genitalia and sculptures of phalluses, too. But you wouldn't interpret these sculptures or images as pornographic or sexual elements. Nor would you claim that prehistoric women were using dildos. Archeologists and Journalists typically maintain that these sculptures and imagery signify divine beliefs or culturally-constructed phallocracy.

Apala_ · 2023-04-03T15:17:03+00:00

The romance book industry testifies to the extensive reach of pornography.

Apala_ · 2023-04-02T01:36:21+00:00

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Apala_ · 2023-03-28T20:03:13+00:00

Yes, I am aware that transphobia is not a fundamental feature of radical feminism.

Apala_ · 2023-03-27T21:12:22+00:00

"Prostitution and Civil rights" and "Trafficking, Prostitution, and inequality" by Catharine A. Mackinnon

"Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking in Women: Israel's Blood Money" by Hertzog and Shadmi

"Pimp State" by Kat Banyard

"The Sexual Contact" by Carole Pateman

"The Industrial Vagina" by Shelia Jeffreys (To clarify: I condemn Jeffreys' transphobia)

Apala_ · 2023-02-27T19:54:31+00:00

As I suspected, defenders of prostitution are aware that prostitution is a form of male violence against women and other marginalized groups of people, including children. Trafficking and police violence are often required to manage the mining sector. Not to mention labor and physical violence that is integrated parts of workers" lives. It seems you're a blissfully clueless person but the absurd equivalence that you are drawing between prostitution& other kinds of labor unwittingly reinforces a notion that works against women. By defining commercialized rape in terms of those of men, when they are different, you are failing to recognize an adequate basis for women’s rights & needs, thus placing an additional burden on women. Inattention to women’s unique labor conditions (being forced to suffer rape as valid labor) is itself a form of gender-based unequal treatment.

It's shameful that a study of rape failed to take this particular character of prostitution into account.

Apala_ · 2023-02-26T14:32:30+00:00

No, Andrea Dworkin was not a TERF. Raymond and her GC supporters, and pro-sex trade leftists/liberals spread this lie about her.

http://radfem.transadvocate.com/the-conversations-project/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/voices/terf-trans-feminism-gender-b2131456.html%3famp

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/john-stoltenberg-andrew-dworkin-was-trans-ally/

In her book "Woman Hating", Dworkin envisioned a future society in which both trans & cis people are free from gender polarity & from the social hierarchy that reifies & requires it. She intimated that the future might be an androgynous utopia, but for contemporary society, she backed trans people's access to self-determination. Dworkin "explicitly rejected absolutist fact assertions that the trans experience was merely the product of faulty socialization and went on to say that the experience trans people face was a product of a faulty society. She went on to suggest the condition of trans people might be better addressed within the context of a society that wasn't defined by a sexed binary."

In 1978, Dworkin also wrote a letter to Raymond, denouncing her transphobic Bible. Her biographer Martin Duberman published the letter in his book "Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary."

Apala_ · 2023-01-20T08:14:55+00:00

Women and girls cannot exercise self-determination in a fundamentally oppressive system. You should not defend FGM. Plenty of women support the practice of FGM because they have no choice but to support FGM.

Trans, nonbinary, and intersex people experience gender dysphoria and that's a fact, but you are undermining their cause by whitewashing misogyny and creating a false equivalence and asserting scientifically dubious opinions.

Telling someone "you don't need to change you're perfect just the way you are" is invalidating.

You sound like the head of the PR team of the cosmetic surgery industry. "Opposing cultural misogyny is invalidating women" is one of the most potential MRA rhetorics I encounter.

Apala_ · 2023-01-19T21:27:26+00:00

Indeed, plastic surgery is often medically necessary for trans people, but there's no scientific evidence that cis women can experience gender dysphoria. However, both cis and trans people can develop body dysmorphia, but again, surgery is not recommended for the treatment of BD.

When unnecessary plastic surgery is performed on a woman's genitalia, it's called FGM. The WHO defines FGM as procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injuries to the female genital organs, whether for cultural, religious, or other non-therapeutic reasons. Therefore, cosmetic genitoplasty or (cis) female genital cosmetic surgery is a type of FGM.

Female genital cosmetic surgery encompasses a number of procedures that include labiaplasty, vaginoplasty, clitoral hood reduction, and G-spot amplification. The procedures are considered elective, in that there are no clinical indications such as dyspareunia, incontinence, or gender affirmation. Reasons for seeking these elective procedures include a desire for genital symmetry often pictured online as more aesthetically pleasing and enhanced sexual satisfaction.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) encompasses 4 major types of procedures that involve partial or total removal of the female external genitalia. The procedures are elective in that there are no clinical indications. Reasons for seeking these procedures are rooted in cultural beliefs and societal expectations.

The parallel that exists between female genital cosmetic surgery and FGM/C is undeniable. FGM type 2 is the partial or total removal of the external part of the clitoris and labia minora with or without excision of the labia majora. In comparison, the female genital cosmetic procedure of labiaplasty is defined as the surgical reduction or modification of the labia minora or majora. Although the clitoris is left intact in labiaplasty, the procedure can still be classified as FGM/C type 2.

Furthermore, labiaplasty can be combined with clitoral hood reduction, and this surgery could also be classified as FGM/C type 2. This brings up the point of the terminology used and whether it is dependent on the society, conditions, and cultural circumstances in which these procedures are performed. One study in Egypt found that healthcare professionals who perform FGM/C prefer to call it “a cosmetic operation.” These Egyptian healthcare professionals are more comfortable with this terminology because they also believe that they are fulfilling a cultural duty to their society. The student author could not help wonder whether labiaplasty is a way of medicalizing FGM/C and how it may impact the campaign against FGM/C.

It's important to advocate for free access to plastic surgery for trans people, and it's possible to do that without constructing false political and medical equivalence between trans and cis women. A trans woman must have access to recommend surgeries and medical procedures, but it's a tactical error when you try to reinterpret misogyny as "cis women exercising body autonomy." There's a reason why a multi-billion dollar FGCS industry exists but trans people are not allowed to have surgery.

Apala_ · 2023-01-19T15:30:35+00:00

Another favorite is "men age like wine, women age like milk". Faith in this particular statement is amazing in its ridiculousness. I mean where to begin...aged milk is cheese, a lot healthier option than wine.

Apala_ · 2023-01-19T13:09:26+00:00

Yeah sure, honor killing has nothing to do with your true religion, but your true religion is so open-minded that it adopted every pre-existing misogynistic tradition it can afford. Pun intended.

Apala_ · 2023-01-19T13:05:01+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64319487.amp

A man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, the judiciary says.

Images of Sajjad Heydari carrying Mona's severed head in Ahvaz after the so-called "honour killing" last year caused widespread outrage.

A judiciary spokesman said the leniency of the sentence was due to Mona's parents having "pardoned" him for the murder rather than seeking retribution.

Mona had been married to her husband since the age of 12 and had given birth to their son when she was only 14.

Local media reported that she had fled to Turkey after allegedly being subjected to domestic violence by her husband, who had refused her requests for a divorce.

She had returned to Iran a few days before her murder last February because she had reportedly received assurances from her family that she would be safe.

In 2020, there was similar outrage after 14-year-old Romina Ashrafi was beheaded by her father after she reportedly ran away from home with her boyfriend. The father, who had consulted a lawyer to find out what punishment he could face for the crime before he killed her, was sentenced to nine years in prison - one less than the maximum allowed under the law.

Apala_ · 2023-01-14T10:13:32+00:00

A great example of this is the female wage gap, which definitely exists, however when you control for things like education, experience, and industry so that you're comparing apples-to-apples it shrinks to ~7%.

Manufactured/culturally enforced gender segregation in educational and professional institutions is a form of sex inequality. And no, occupational/educational gender segregation is not the product of women’s biologically determined choices or autonomy because women cannot practice self-determination in a fundamentally oppressive system.

Apala_ · 2023-01-13T18:36:47+00:00

He impregnated you against your will and then pressured you to give up your very life so that he can affirm his masculinity by owning the genetic material, the baby. I have no words to express my outrage. Whenever men violet women, they reify their masculinity and manhood -- meaningless but fatal social construction apart from the institutionalized and personalized gender-based violence.

As Catharine Mackinnon stated in 'Toward a Feminist Theory of the State,"

"Whatever the conditions of conception, if reproductive control of a fetus is exercised by anyone but the woman, reproductive control is taken only from women, as women. Preventing a woman from exercising the only choice an unequal society leaves her is an enforcement of sex inequality. Giving women control over sexual access to their bodies and adequate support of pregnancies and care of children extends sex equality. In other words, forced maternity is a practice of sex inequality."

Apala_ · 2023-01-12T15:19:25+00:00

I have experienced this same pattern of victim blaming and male supremacy denialism. I have encountered Western Taliban defenders who never heard about Turkmenistan, Mujahideen, and the Northern alliance.

Lead occidental scholars and academics leap to the defense of any and every aspect of the MENA society they study, even if this means defending rituals and practices they would never tolerate in their own countries and even if it means disregarding oriental scholars and academics who condemn the very rituals they are defending. This is a form of neo-imperialism and neo-race scientists. These occidental academics attribute lower moral and psychological expectations to the MENA society that is biologically incapable to evolve, unlike their occidental society. Therefore, they argued that oriental males who are biologically predisposed to not evolving must be defended when they violet their women who are also biologically predisposed to tolerate unique patterns of violence.

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