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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by emergencyfood to c/[email protected]
 

Source: Part 1 and Part 2

Tl;dw - Unlike China and Japan, medieval Korea followed an extreme school of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchy and age over practicality. After WW2, the South Korean ~~dictatorship~~ government used this tradition to cement their own power. The video argues that these have made South Korea an extremely hierarchical, and in particular, sexist, society. A video game's refusal to sexualize a female character for their (mostly male) audience was thus seen as an attack on the system. A female artist at the studio was accused of being a 'radical feminist', and either fired or resigned to appease fans.

Edit: As Denjin pointed out, it should be Ming Dynasty and not Tang Dynasty.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not the artist who worked on the character model, either. Just a random woman who had written some of the story, and had previously retweeted support of a movement to keep incels from secretly videotaping people in bathrooms and hotels. For this, she wa labeled a radical feminist and fired.

[–] emergencyfood 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I cut some details to keep the explanation short. It was absurd as it is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I understand completely. It's like a seven layer bullshit nachos plate, where every layer is a new, worse kind of bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TIL about Korea rejection of Neo Confucianism in a Lemmy meme. I'm glad I went here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Confucius says "women belong in the chicken".. Apparently?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"in the chicken" 👀

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So why did the release of an insufficiently sexy M&M create a storm among US TV show hosts?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It didn't, no one really cares about that. It's culture war propaganda to distract from real issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the real issues like Lola Bunny.

[–] The_Lopen 10 points 1 year ago

That channel has done an exceptional job toning down my distaste for some Japanese media by explaining the roots for the tropes I despise. Highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need an outoftheloop here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You need to watch at least the start of the first video.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely adore Moon Channel!

My favorite is the video "Why Are There No Good Christian Games?"

It gave so much more clarity to the lifelong issues I've had while growing up Christian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cmon, Doom doesn't count? You're literally killing Satan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tang dynasty was from 618 to 907 AD. The 15th Century was pretty much the height of the Ming dynasty.

[–] emergencyfood 1 points 1 year ago

You're right. I will add a correction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand the format of this. Why put a dictator/murderer/war criminal and shitty capitalist/conservative talking head having this detailed and interesting conversation. These two in no way deserve any of the positive association this meme implies.

[–] emergencyfood 2 points 1 year ago

It's a meme about one person asking about a modern-day event, and another replying by starting 500 years ago. No value judgement about the actual people is implied.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Part 1

Part 2

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow thanks for sharing this. I had apparently already seen this guy's video about JRPG bosses, but nothing else. I've now gone through and watched both of those two videos as well as a whole bunch more from him. Really great stuff.