I need y’all to know that while #metoo has been surging as a movement in south korea, the retaliation has been devastating.
The pence rule has been cited as a valid solution. Women are being plainly ignored in their workplace. Women are being pulled from business trips with male coworkers. Women are not being given job opportunities bc of potential exposure to male coworkers. Women are not being hired bc of the “danger” they pose to the men.
They’re not fixing the behavior of men. They’re blaming it all on women, and the women are being forced to bear the brunt of the repercussions.
The women are suffering for speaking out not just on a person by person basis of “you could’ve done better/you were seducing him”, but on a larger, systemically oppressive scale.
Rather than educating men to respect boundaries and just not sexually harass/assault women, they’re limiting the presence and mobility of women. They’re getting rid of the women in the workplace. Bc that solves the problem.
I know a lot of this is redundant, but I am angry. And embarrassed. And frustrated. When I heard about this, I was so, so disappointed. I wanted Korea to be better than this.
So please, be angry about this too. Spread it and let it be known that this is not okay. That this is unacceptable.
I know it has nothing to do with your interest in the country’s music or drama or other media/entertainment, but it is SO important that you not ignore this.
Because whenever anyone seriously tries to argue that POC fans (which for the record, I’m white) and anyone drawing POC Homestucks and advocating for more representation of people of color in fandom and media are the ones inserting race/racism into the discussion–
y’know, racism, that system by which, among other things, mostly-arbitrary categories of biological characteristics and cultural stereotypes are used to justify gross social, economic, and political inequality to the benefit of those in power, and which kind of exists fucking everywhere and doesn’t need help getting inserted into almost every aspect of people’s lives–
I always have to wonder if we’re even reading the same comic. Intentional analogy or not, that thematic ship has gone and fucking sailed.
And as promised, both messages anon sent me after the last ask I answered are included here for general mockery. Rest assured, they are as enlightened on issues of citizenship and how other people self-identify as they are on race as a whole:
Good job anon what a convincing argument you’ve crafted.
karkat vantas is one of those people who swims with 3 layers of clothes on and never leaves the shallow end no matter how many times everyone assures him its perfectly safe and no one cares jesus karkat that cant be comfortable come on
and jake english is one of those people that runs screaming in from the kitchen, bare feet slapping over the tile, and canonballs in completely naked while half the people present clap their hands over their faces and yell incoherently and the other half raise their eyebrows and think “hmm… nice”
jake gives karkat endless shit for being a water ninny and knows he is perfectly safe doing so because karkat will never cross the invisible boundary after about the 3ft line. all he can do is screech and splash, uselessly, like a magikarp
Hello this is the only content I want in my life
Does karkat have water wings I need to know please update me
is this a close-up of john or jake youll never know
its john
jake’s glasses are slightly different
brit they look exactly the same
what r u on
on the left is john’s, on the right is jake’s
jake’s are elongated. its a really tiny difference but its there
everybody, the homestuck fandom are also a bunch of glasses connoisseurs.
I have never been prouder to be part of the Homestuck fandom.
yes, yes you may have won this round, fandom, but can you figure out
ROSE OR ROXY???
i’ve been comparing their faces for 3 minutes i cant do it im sorry i have failed as a homestuck
It’s Roxy, I think.
Rose:
Roxy:
above:
gonna piss on a brick that’s what.
it’s roxy
rose’s face is wider lol
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Homestuck Fandom.
Dave with pointy shades or Dirk???
Dave with pointy shades. The left part of your image should have a little black line if it were dirk, since that part is supposed to encompass his hair, as well :3
…as you can see the boundaries of your image file has dotted lines ^u^
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