Simply an amusing coincidence on your Friday evening. However don’t fear, Korean Feminism geeks—I’ve additionally acquired you lined!

Estimated studying time: 2 minutes. Picture supply: Aladin.

No, not that F-word—though nowadays, it’s simply as taboo to say both. And no, I don’t fairly understand how Simple to Learn Feminism: Who Says Feminism is Tough (Background info for rookies to feminism) / 쉽게 읽는 페미니즘: 페미니즘 누가 어렵대 (패미니즘 입문자를 위한 배경지식서), by the BT Humanities Analysis Institute / 비티인문학 연구소 (2019), ended up on my telephone display precisely. In all probability, watching Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) the week earlier than subliminally affected me one way or the other. However, nonetheless it acquired there, I couldn’t assist however discover the age and intercourse breakdown of shoppers who had already purchased the e-book, which appeared to reflect the gender hole underlying the curiosity—or antipathy in direction of—feminism amongst the broader Korean public.

Supply: @HeejungChung

I too lament that gender hole, but additionally discovered the picture amusing, so am sharing it for that purpose.

I don’t actually imply to indicate something extra significant in it past that! Certainly, only a fast perusal of different Korean books on feminism I’ve lately purchased, confirmed that that very same shopping for sample didn’t apply to these.

If that leaves you dissatisfied although, let me additionally take this chance to hyperlink to what I one way or the other discovered subsequent: “A brand new variation of contemporary prejudice: younger Korean males’s anti-feminism and male-victim ideology” by Han Wool Jung, in Quantity 14-2023 of Frontiers in Psychology. In all probability essentially the most complete, crucially open-access article I’ve ever encountered on the topic, it ought to preserve you—and me!—occupied for a number of hours no less than.

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