Why Did ‘Barbie’ Bomb in South Korea?

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a huge debate in South Korea over feminism. I’m not Korean, but I’ve read a lot that Korean men do get special treatment from the government, colleges, and workplaces, but mostly for their mandatory military service. The argument seems to be that if women want the same treatment, they’re free to sign up for military service.

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  • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe the issue is compelling your citizens to join your military in the first place?

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    • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The common understanding is with DPRK ready to go at any given moment in theory that they need the population to be trained just in case.

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    • firewyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This was an incredibly stupid thing to say when their only direct neighbor wants them all dead.

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  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds fair to me.

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    • sock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i also think blackmailing women into joining the military is a sustainable idea

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  • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Makes sense for a country still technically in a civil war, I guess.

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• Stanwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So I went with my son and wife, I’m very open minded about things in general but for anyone to say this wasn’t a movie about feminism and incels is a joke. I get it, men have movies that glorify masculinity all the time so I didn’t mind watching it but to say All we care about is patriarchy and mini fridges and horses is a joke. Well made movie so I’ll just chock it up to feminism getting a good jab in.

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  • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imo it was trying to make you think about what just happened and how the fight was more of the classes rather than sexes, while presenting itself more as empowerment since thats what the brand sells, not revolution and empowerment implies keeping the status quo going, but the undertone definetly hints at the fact that the system in and of itself is wrong, not necesarily what group of people runs it.

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  • Tavarin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All the Ken’s care about are Patriarchy, horses, and mini-fridges, because they were given no rights or ideas of their own before Ken went to the real world, and he was only there for a few hours.

    It’s not a critique of men in general.

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any dude getting personally upset about the portrayal of the Kens is telling on himself

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    • Stanwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would be an argument if they men in the real world weren’t portrayed the same way. They shit on men in both worlds.

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• Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bomb

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  • mawp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …wrong Asian country bro

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    • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The joke is that the title has both Barbie and bomb, but I should have made it clearer

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