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Nothings gonna change unless something changes.
namely their miserable work culture
It's probably work and wealth inequality that's the biggest driver for this.
There's also a massive and rising anti-feminist incel subculture, which the current President Yoon took power from. Women in South Korea don't trust men in South Korea as much.
Insane work culture, huge wealth inequality, and rising anti-women movements all hurt birth rates.
What's causing a rising anti-feminist incel subculture?
Unsurprisingly, a rising feminist subculture among women. Because Korea in general has been historically misogynistic, exposure to more feminist media and culture as well as societal progression has led to rises in feminism among women. As a response, men have felt threatened, and claim feminists are "going too far," and call feminists "femi."
An example of recent incel "controversy" is when an idol character in a video game had a frame where her index finger and thumb appeared like this: 🤏 and incels took that to be offensive to Korean Penis size, and had the man who animated that fired from Nexien. I wish I was joking.
So the exact same reaction that men the world over have when women start demanding equal rights.
Because Korea in general has been historically misogynistic
There's nothing particularly Korean about this. Basically every culture is historically misogynistic, the exceptions are few and far between and are generally romanticized based on limited information.
The exact same reactions took place in America 100 years ago during women's suffrage, and are taking place again now with the abortion debacle.
That's why I said "unsurprisingly," and considering South Korea has developed far more recently, it's also important to recognize that their social progress is behind much of other developed countries. I wasn't implying that Korea has anything specific about them that made them especially misogynistic, rather, it's pointing at their current conditions and trajectories.
Lol, hilarious.
I mean yeah, it's sad this is going on. But that example is just too funny.
Hopefully these men can get over themselves and start treating women with the respect they deserve.
Oh, absolutely, I agree. The only thing that truly brings solace is that reactionary movements get louder when progressive movements grow stronger.
They need better labor laws there.
It seems for the past few years, it keeps going lower than predicted, and thus the predications keep going down. I wouldn't be surpised if it instead bottomed out at 0.51 in say 2030
Definitely good news for marine life.
The issue isn't fertility, it's the country, the culture, the labor laws. Nobody will want to get kids in a climate like that
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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