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[The Lemon]

[gatohorrible]

I don't agree with much lemon says but here he is right.
The problem with the korean nationalist discourse is that unlike other countries where socialist groups can be seen to be internationalists and anti-corporate , Korean has a onesize fits all kind of nationalism which is impossible to fight. If you post something like beatnik did, you get labelled an interefering white foreigner - if you take the butterfly way you are quite happy to be in a land that oipppresses women . he might actually get a date.

The problem with debating with koreans is that on any call thye'll bring in the 'you re foreigner' discourse and try and exclude your right as someone living on this planet to criticise their disgusting anti-women, anti-foreigner , anti-everyone discourse.

[crusher_of_heads]

[Guri Guy]

Holy thread necromancy Batman!

[whatever]

anybody seen the other threads that have to do with this one, numbers one and two (and potentially three, 'soju'...gotsta read that one)

either they're not around or the search function isn't helping me too much.

[aboxofchocolates]

[aboxofchocolates]

All domestic duties are considered housework in Korea (citation’s in the mail). Nailing in baseboards would be the wife’s responsibility (or hiring someone to do it). Think of all those gendered household chores we divvy up in our minds, and all of the rationalizations we use to explain why the woman performs one task and the man performs another. In Korea, all of the rationalization explains why a woman is the most logical choice to perform all of these tasks. It is so deeply ingrained in society that hiring practices are based off assumptions people make about the division of labour in a household. A woman won’t be promoted because she is expected to get married and leave. A married woman is expected to do all of the child rearing chores and thus cannot be expected to go to all of those after work functions that are so important in advancement in a Korean company (can’t shoot soju till the wee hours and still take the kiddies to all the right hogwons). Koreans know businesses hire with this in mind, so even a relatively liberal minded couple will make the logical choice to have the man as the main breadwinner as it will be of greater benefit in the long run. Can’t blame it all on the husband’s cruddy sexist attitude, he (benefit of the doubt here) might be experiencing a little glass escalator syndrome (it’s not a syndrome, I just couldn’t think of a better alternative to ‘getting a bit of the glass escalator’ which sounds vaguely dirty in my adolescent mind) (I interrupt my sentences this much when I’m conversing, too. I’m pretty incomprehensible).