#chinese feminism

[gacha-incels]

some QRTs from the original thread which is of course also worth a read. the Chinese movement 6B4T is frequently subject to censorship online.

[relatetonothing]

There should be a Chinese national day or memorial commemorating women who lost their lives to unfair and inhumane treatment throughout history

A moment of silence and reflection to all the unimaginable suffering in ancient and imperial China:

- women who were abused mentally and physically, or even murdered by their fathers, as it was legal for them to do such things to their daughters

- the mandatory practice of the Three Obediences, forcing women to be obedient to their fathers in childhood, their husbands in marriage and their sons in widowhood

- women who committed suicide when their husbands died or as a act of preventing rape, as chastity was highly regarded by society and such actions were encouraged and even commemorated by gifts

- women who were buried alive with their dead husbands of high social status (and thus grander burials)

- women who were coerced to stay unmarried after their husband’s deaths and expected to remain filial to his parents for life, even if they treated her poorly. These girls would be seen as impure and hence unsuitable for remarriage, and if they did so would be looked down upon for the rest of her life. There were also periods in history when women lost their dowries and property left to her by her parents to the first husband’s family by law, so she is left with nothing to support herself if he dies and she wishes to leave

- women who were wildly talented but were not allowed to own property but expected to help her husband pay his taxes, receive an education, hold positions in court or do anything other than acts of pleasing or assisting the male population. The famous Ming Dynasty saying ‘a woman without talent is virtuous’ paints the picture

- women whose life’s worth was her ability to bear male heirs

- women who were not allowed outdoors for life because of social norms and died of mental illness. Let’s not forget some were also physically bound to the house via foot binding, which was seen as an erotic symbol by men, but was a practice in which young girls had to break the bones of her feet to have them reshaped and tightly wrapped to less than half its previous size

The fact that fragments of the above carry to the present day is both shocking and revolting!

[sunbeamedskies]

“Noa Argamani was treated well!”

She was kept as a hostage slave in a wealthy family’s apartment, forced to clean it whenever they knocked without warning, for EIGHT MONTHS. Just because they fed her does not mean she wasn’t a hostage and a slave. Her mother also has terminal cancer and was afraid she was never going to see her again.

If you start justifying human rights abuses against women, Jews, and Asians (she is half Chinese) because they are Israeli, you were never against antisemitism, misogyny, or wanted to stop Asian hate.

You can support both Palestinian and Israeli civilian lives.

[taylor14firefly]

Unfortunately, this woman’s horrific experience--surviving attempted murder as a baby and having subsequent health issues--is not an isolated incident in China. (I wish I could find the Tumblr thread I had reblogged on this topic, but alas, Tumblr’s search feature sucks.) Committing infanticide, usually female infanticide, by using needles, is a longstanding practice. I’ve only heard of one case that involved a male baby, and even then it was noted for being unusual:

“Police have conducted an attempted murder investigation and confirmed it was not the first incident of its kind although it was usually only girl children who fall victim to such attacks.

In Northeast China in particular there is a superstition the pushing and needle into the body of a girl child will guarantee that the next child is a male.”

--Natalie Evans, Irish Mirror

Nothing demonstrates the pervasiveness and violence of sex-based oppression--that women and girls face discrimination as a sex class--quite like a culture that cripples and mutilates female children, hampering their ability to walk, for a thousand years, and then killing their descendants with needles shoved into their vital organs. This isn’t to say that China is unique and singular in its woman-hating, only that some of its particular expressions of misogyny lay the whole violent system of patriarchy bare. (Trust me, I could go off on American gynecology, and how medicine in the West in general, is absolutely horrific to women, but that’s for another post.)

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/china-jails-dad-who-tried-to-kill-daughter-with-needles/story-ETOGeuRi96v8y0UiMkL4GM.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20141027151356/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1625647/woman-suspected-pushing-needles-her-baby-nieces-body-kills-herself

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/chinese-kin-suspected-over-needle-in-girl-s-brain/story-O2VYTD4vKgcc8NCw5btFYK.html

https://www.inquisitr.com/2407812/chinese-woman-had-two-inch-needle-in-her-brain-for-46-years-case-highlights-grim-practice-of-female-infanticide-in-china

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/baby-china-needle-pushed-body-3000848

hearing these stories from the aftermath of the one child policy really just fills me with so much dread

i know she is playing off this traumatic event as a joke but i just cant laugh :(

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]The relationship between women in history is not just love rivals,

“but also thousands of years later, everyone knows that it is me and you.”

Let's get to know about them/她们 in China history.

1.【Han Dynasty】:Princess Jieyou (解忧公主) & Feng Liao (馮嫽)

Princess Jieyou (Chinese: 解忧公主; 121 BC – 49 BC), born Liu Jieyou (Chinese: 刘解忧), was a Chinese princess sent to marry the leader of the Wusun kingdom as part of the Western Han Chinese policy of heqin(和亲).

As the granddaughter of the disgraced Prince Liu Wu (劉戊) who had taken part in the disastrous Rebellion of the Seven States,her status was low enough that she was sent to replace Princess Liu Xijun (劉細君) after her untimely death and marry the Wusun king Cunzhou (岑陬).

Jieyou lived among the Wusun for fifty years and did much work to foster relations between the surrounding kingdoms and the Han. She was particularly reliant upon her attendant, Feng Liao, whom she dispatched as an emissary to Wusun kingdoms and even to the Han Court. She faced opposition from pro-Xiongnu members of the Wusun royalty, particularly Wengguimi’s Xiongnu wife. When word came that the Xiongnu planned to attack Wusun, she convinced her husband to send for aid from the Han Emperor. Emperor Wu of Han sent 150,000 cavalrymen to support the Wusun forces and drive back the Xiongnu.

In 51 BCE at the age of 70, Jieyou asked to be allowed to retire and return to the Han. Emperor Xuan of Han agreed and had her escorted back to Chang'an where she was welcomed with honor. She was given a grand palace with servants usually reserved for princesses of the imperial family. In 49 BCE, Jieyou died peacefully.

Feng Liao (馮嫽)

Feng Liao (馮嫽) was China's first official female diplomat,[citation needed] who represented the Han dynasty to Wusun (烏孫), which was in the Western Regions. It was a practice for the Imperial Court to foster alliances with the northern tribes via marriage, and two Han princesses had married Wusun kings.

Feng Liao was the maidservant of Princess Jieyou (解憂公主), who was married off to a Wusun king. Feng herself later married an influential Wusun general, whose good standing with Prince Wujiutu (烏就屠) of the kingdom later proved beneficial to the Han dynasty.

When Prince Wujiutu seized the throne of Wusun in 64 BC, after his father died, there was fear in the Imperial Court of Han that Wujiutu, whose mother was Xiongnu, would allow Wusun to become Xiongnu's vassal.

Zheng Ji, Governor of the Western Regions, recalled that Feng Liao had married into Wusun and with her familiarity of the Wusun customs, she was a prime candidate to persuade Wujiutu to ally his kingdom with Han. Wujiutu acceded and Emperor Xuan of Han (漢宣帝) sent for Feng. He praised her for her judgement and diplomacy, and appointed her as the official envoy to Wusun.

Wujiutu was conferred the title "Little King of Wusun" while his brother, the son by a Han princess, was named "Great King of Wusun". Wusun was divided between the two kings and tensions in that region were eased.

※Xiongnu: Xiongnu: A nomadic tribe that has occupied northern China for a long time. Later it gradually became a state. It harassed the borders of the Han Dynasty for a long time and robbed supplies.

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With their efforts, the Wusun Kingdom gradually tended to support the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu's defeat in China also began.

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2.【Tang Dynasty】:Shangguan Wan'er(上官婉儿)&Princess Taiping (太平公主)

Shangguan Wan'er/上官婉儿 (664 – 21 July 710) was a Chinese politician, poet, and imperial consort of the Wu Zhou and Tang dynasties. Described as a "female prime minister,"Shangguan rose from modest origins as a palace servant to become secretary and leading advisor to Empress Wu Zetian of Zhou. Under Empress Wu, Shangguan exercised responsibility for drafting imperial edicts and earned approbation for her writing style. She retained her influence as consort to Wu's son and successor, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, holding the imperial consort rank of Zhaorong (昭容). Shangguan was also highly esteemed for her talent as a poet.Shangguan was also highly esteemed for her talent as a poet. In 710, after Emperor Zhongzong's death, Shangguan was killed during a palace coup that ended the regency of Empress Dowager Wei.

Princess Taiping (太平公主)lit. "Princess of Great Peace", personal name unknown, possibly Li Lingyue (李令月) (after 662 – 2 August 713) was a royal princess and prominent political figure of the Tang dynasty and her mother Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty. She was the youngest daughter of Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong and was influential during the reigns of her mother and her elder brothers Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Ruizong (both of whom reigned twice), particularly during Emperor Ruizong's second reign, when for three years until her death, she was the real power behind the throne.

She is the most famous and influential princess of the Tang dynasty and possibly in the whole history of China thanks to her power, ability and ambition. She was involved in political difficulties and developments during the reigns of her mother and brothers. Indeed, after the coup against Empress Dowager Wei, she became the real ruler of Tang. During the reign of Emperor Ruizong, she was not restricted by anything, the emperor issued rulings based on her views and the courtiers and the military flattered her and majority from every civil and military class joined her faction, so her power exceeded that of the emperor.

Eventually, however, a rivalry developed between her and her nephew, Emperor Ruizong's son, Crown Prince Li Longji. Both of them were hostile in power-sharing and they fought for the monopoly over power. After Emperor Ruizong yielded the throne to Li Longji (as Emperor Xuanzong) in 712, the conflict came to the political forefront, and openly, the court became a manifestation of conspiracy rather than the administration of the empire; in 713, Emperor Xuanzong, according to historical records, believing that she was planning to overthrow him, acted first, executing a large number of her powerful allies and forcing her to commit suicide.

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The relationship between Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping has always been written as "enemies" in official history, but with the phrase "千年万岁，椒花颂声", their friendship that has been buried for thousands of years was revealed.

The"千年万岁，椒花颂声" sentence comes from the epitaph written by Princess Taiping for Shangguan Wan'er. The original text is: "潇湘水断，宛委山倾，珠沉圆折，玉碎连城。甫瞻松槚，静听坟茔，千年万岁，椒花颂声”

Translation: Now that you are far away, the sky and the earth will lose their color. I'm afraid that all I can do in the future is to sit and look at the tea tree in front of your tomb. Maybe I can hear your voice again when I stand within an inch of the tomb. But this is a delusion after all, a quiet tomb, no beautiful face, a empty place of death. I hope that in a thousand or ten thousand years, there will still be people like me who remember you.

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3.【Late Qing Dynasty】:Lü Bicheng(呂碧城) & Qiu Jin (秋瑾)

Lü Bicheng(呂碧城)also known as Alice Pichen Lee(1883–1943) was a Chinese writer, activist, newspaper editor, poet and school founder. She has been mentioned as one of the top four women in literature from the early Republic of China.

When she was four, her father retired to Lu'an, Anhui. She lived a life of comfort until the age of 12, when her father died in 1895. Because Lü Fengqi had no male heir, relatives of the Lü lineage contested for his inheritance, and Yan Shiyu and her four daughters were forced to move to Lai'an County to live with her natal family. When she was nine, Lü Bicheng was betrothed to a Wang family, but as her own family fortune declined, the Wang family broke off the marriage contract, giving the young Bicheng the stigma of a "rejected woman". The resulting emotional scar is often considered a major factor in her later decision to never marry.[8] Her widowed mother and the Lü girls were not well treated at the Yan family in rural Anhui. When Lü was 15 or 16, Yan Shiyu sent her to live with her maternal uncle Yan Langxuan (嚴朗軒), who was the salt administrator in Tanggu, the port city outside the northern metropolis of Tianjin. Her sister Huiru also joined her later.

During her stay in Tanggu, Qing China went through the tumultuous period of the failed Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, which brought about increasing awareness of women's education, and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. In 1904, Mrs. Fang, the wife of her uncle's secretary, invited Lü Bicheng to visit a girls' school in Tianjin, but her uncle prevented her from going and severely reprimanded her. The next day, she ran away from her uncle's home, and took the train to Tianjin with no money or luggage. She wrote a letter to Mrs. Fang, who was staying at the dormitory of the Ta Kung Pao newspaper. Ying Lianzhi, the Catholic Manchu nobleman who founded the newspaper, read the letter and was so impressed by it that he made her an assistant editor. Lü Bicheng wrote a "progressive" ci that she had previously written, set to "A River Full of Red" ("Manjianghong") usually used to express heroic emotions. Ying transcribed the whole song in her diary and published it in L'impartial two days later. At the time, it was sensational for a woman to write for an influential national newspaper such as Ta Kung Pao. She was 21 years old. She used Ta Kung Pao to promote feminism and became a well-known figure.

Lü's ci poetry was published in the newspaper and it was very well received. She was the chief editor of the newspaper from 1904 to 1908. In 1904 she decided to improve education for girls. She had published her thoughts on women's rights and the general editor of the newspaper introduced her to Yan Fu who was an advocate for Western ideas. The Beiyang Women's Normal School was established that same year. At 23 Lü took on the job of principal of the school she had founded two years before. At first this school found it difficult to find girls who qualified for secondary education and students were brought in from Shanghai to make up the numbers.

Lü knew the revolutionary Qiu Jin and they had similar objectives but Lü did not join her in Japan when she was invited as she was unsure whether women should meddle in politics. She was then chosen to be secretary to Yuan Shikai, one of the most powerful people in China. When he set out to declare himself emperor of China she left, like many of his followers, and abandoned him.

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Qiu Jin (秋瑾)8 November 1875 – 15 July 1907,was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer.Her sobriquet name is Jianhu Nüxia (Chinese: 鑑湖女俠 lit. 'Woman Knight of Mirror Lake').

Qiu was born into a wealthy family. Her grandfather worked in the Xiamen city government and was responsible for the city's defense. Zhejiang province was famous for female education, and Qiu Jin had support from her family when she was young to pursue her educational interests. Her father, Qiu Shounan, was a government official and her mother came from a distinguished literati-official family. Qiu Jin's wealthy and educated background, along with her early exposure to political ideologies were key factors in her transformation to becoming a female pioneer for the woman's liberation movement and the republican revolution in China.

In the early 1900s, Japan had started to experience western influences earlier than China. As to not fall behind, the Qing government sent many elites to learn from the Japanese. Qiu Jin was one of these elites that got the chance to study overseas. After studying in a women's school in Japan, Qiu returned to China to participate in a variety of revolutionary activities; and through her involvement with these activities, it became clear how Qiu wanted others to perceive her. Qiu called herself 'Female Knight-Errant of Jian Lake' — the role of the knight-errant, established in the Han dynasty, was a prototypically male figure known for swordsmanship, bravery, faithfulness, and self-sacrifice — and 'Vying for Heroism'

Qiu Jin had her feet bound and began writing poetry at an early age. With the support from her family, Qiu Jin also learned how to ride a horse, use a sword, and drink wine—activities that usually only men were permitted to learn at the time.In 1896 Qiu Jin got married. At the time she was only 21, which was considered late for a woman of that time. Qiu Jin's father arranged her marriage to Wang Tingchun, the youngest son of a wealthy merchant in Hunan province. Qiu Jin did not get along well with her husband, as her husband only cared about enjoying himself.While in an unhappy marriage, Qiu came into contact with new ideas. The failure of her marriage affected her decisions later on, including choosing to study in Japan.

While still in Tokyo, Qiu single-handedly edited a journal, Vernacular Journal (Baihua Bao). A number of issues were published using vernacular Chinese as a medium of revolutionary propaganda. In one issue, Qiu wrote A Respectful Proclamation to China's 200 Million Women Comrades, a manifesto within which she lamented the problems caused by bound feet and oppressive marriages. Having suffered from both ordeals herself, Qiu explained her experience in the manifesto and received an overwhelmingly sympathetic response from her readers. Also outlined in the manifesto was Qiu's belief that a better future for women lay under a Western-type government instead of the Qing government that was in power at the time. She joined forces with her cousin Xu Xilin and together they worked to unite many secret revolutionary societies to work together for the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.

Between 1905 and 1907, Qiu Jin was also writing a novel called Stones of the Jingwei Bird in traditional ballad form, a type of literature often composed by women for women audiences. The novel describes the relationship between five wealthy women who decide to flee their families and the arranged marriages awaiting them in order to study and join revolutionary activities in Tokyo. Titles for the later uncompleted chapters suggest that the women will go on to talk about “education, manufacturing, military activities, speechmaking, and direct political action, eventually overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing a republic” — all of which were subject matters that Qiu either participated in or advocated for.

Life after returning to China

Qiu Jin was known as an eloquent orator who spoke out for women's rights, such as the freedom to marry, freedom of education, and abolishment of the practice of foot binding. In 1906 she founded China Women's News (Zhongguo nü bao), a radical women's journal with another female poet, Xu Zihua in Shanghai. They published only two issues before it was closed by the authorities. In 1907, she became head of the Datong school in Shaoxing, ostensibly a school for sport teachers, but really intended for the military training of revolutionaries[citation needed]. While teaching in Datong school, she kept secret connection with local underground organization—The Restoration Society. This organization aimed to overthrow the Manchu government and restore Chinese rule.

Death

In 1907, Xu Xilin, Qiu’s friend and the Datong school’s co-founder was executed for attempting to assassinate his Manchu superior. In the same year, the authorities arrested Qiu at the school for girls where she was the principal. She was tortured but refused to admit her involvement in the plot. Instead the authorities used her own writings as incrimination against her and, a few days later, she was publicly beheaded in her home village, Shanyin, at the age of 31. Her last written words, her death poem, uses the literal meaning of her name, Autumn Gem, to lament of the failed revolution that she would never see take place:

秋風秋雨愁煞人 (Autumn wind, autumn rain — they make one die of sorrow)

After Qiu Jin was killed, no one dared to collect her body. Lu Bicheng endured her grief and took great risks to bury her friend. The guarding Qing army learned that the woman who came to collect the corpse was Lu Bicheng, who was famous in China, and they had no choice but to do anything.

Qiu Jin's death caused Lu Bicheng to lose a rare confidant in life. She wrote many poems in memory of Qiu Jin, recalling this like-minded friend.

Later, Lü Bicheng wrote "The Biography of the Revolutionary Heroine Qiu Jin" in English, which was published in newspapers in New York, Chicago and other places in the United States. It caused a great response and not only made many people in the world know about Qiu Jin's legendary story, but also published it in newspapers in New York and Chicago. It also makes people understand the darkness and corrupt social status quo of the Qing Dynasty. Lu Bicheng used a pen of her own to record her friendship with Qiu Jin, and also fulfilled her promise to Qiu Jin to respond with the "battle of words"

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[russellius]

April 17th, 2024 ; Shanghai

[formywriyinglalala]

Selected Excerpts from the Paper "On Gender Anxiety Among Female BL Readers" by Cheng Yanan

before any non-chinese person reads this... this is not talking about mlm fiction written by actual gay men, but rather mlm fiction written and read by straight women

1. The Weakening of the Uke's Image: Contradiction Between the Pursuit of Equality and Self-Denigration

"The character schema of seme and uke still replicates the binary gender roles of a patriarchal society."

"BL enthusiasts are caught in the contradiction of consciously pursuing gender equality while subconsciously denigrating themselves."

"Female characters are severely marginalized in most BL texts."

"The initial intention of female readers to pursue gender-neutral personal development by breaking gender stereotypes is compromised as BL fans collectively and unconsciously construct female characters under the male gaze, reinforcing patriarchal aesthetic constraints on women."

2. Female Characters: The Inescapable Gender Gaze

(BL novels) have not created new, realistic, and free gender images, nor have they made valuable breakthroughs in reshaping rigid gender characteristics in social culture. Female readers merely vent their negative emotions—such as the helplessness and resentment of being gazed at in real society—excessively in BL novels. However, they are unable to break away from the male gaze, resulting in the portrayal of stereotypical female roles within a patriarchal culture. This dichotomy of good versus evil, one-size-fits-all construction reveals the female readers' confusion and misjudgment of their own gender under the constraints of patriarchal thinking. The unbreakable patriarchal gender imagination acts like a glass ceiling, causing women to struggle between the male gaze and gazing at men."

3. The Paradox of Homosexual Physiology and Sexual Oppression: The Difficulty of Facing Sexual Desire

"BL readers, on one hand, pursue sexual liberation, and on the other, find it difficult to confront their own sexual desires directly. They resort to oppressive erotic content in BL texts to realize sexual fantasies and obtain sexual pleasure."

"Additionally, females striving to discard feudal chastity values in reality often reinforce them in BL texts."

"BL enthusiasts have yet to escape the patriarchal conditioning of female bodily desires, unconsciously reproducing the sexual oppression women face in society within the uke characters in novels."

4. Avoiding Conflict: Cathartic Release of Anxiety

"BL novels do not actively explore homosexuality as a social existence but rather provide a means for romantic fantasy."

"In the carnival of fantasy and daydreaming, female readers’ gender anxiety is temporarily relieved in a self-deceptive manner, achieving a fleeting reconciliation between their gender 'superego' and 'id.' However, their confusion does not lead to further exploration. BL literature opts to avoid facing social taboos and real-life challenges."

"Given the grim survival conditions for women in reality, the unique cultural background, the gap with Western feminism, the academic isolation of gender studies, and the misinterpretation of feminism in the media, female readers find it hard to believe in the possibility of overthrowing the existing gender order and ultimately achieving gender equality based on the fact that inherent biological differences are a reality. Moreover, in an era of individualism, the fading sense of elite feminist responsibility has led them, to some extent, to no longer wish to struggle for the common ideal of gender equality in traditional ways. Reading BL novels, as Beauvoir mentioned in 'The Second Sex,' becomes an easier measure for releasing gender fantasies and alleviating anxiety, compared to anxiously seeking a way out. Constructing same-sex love stories free of physiological differences proves to be a more straightforward approach."

[radicalavender]

is there a chinese radfem community on radblr bc they were pretty active on radtwt when i was there but havent rly seen any here

[euoiabloom]

Party outfit ✨

[gacha-incels]

article from the english edition of the Hankyoreh September 9 2024

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“My life is not your porn” and “Deepfake is murder” — these were some of the chants heard in a mix of Korean, English, and Chinese on the night of Sept. 3 (local time), directed at the South Korean Embassy in the UK. 

Over 100 people, including women from South Korea, China, Japan, and others from around the world, gathered that evening at Trafalgar Square in London. They marched from there, passing Buckingham Palace, and continued to the South Korean Embassy, calling for measures to address the ongoing deepfake sex crime crisis plaguing South Korea.

The march was organized by Chinese feminists based in London, who voiced their support for South Korean women fighting against digital sex crimes, such as deepfakes and illegal filming. Their aim was to raise awareness among women worldwide about these crimes occurring in South Korea.

In a post on their Instagram account (@weareallchainedwomen), the organizers wrote, “The illegal use of hidden cameras and deepfake technology by men to turn women’s everyday lives into pornography is not just a social issue in Korea; it is a widespread problem globally, particularly in East Asian countries.” They also said, “In China, the bravery of Korean feminists has long inspired many to awaken,” adding, “We hope to become each other’s strongest and most loyal sisters, supporting each other to overthrow the patriarchy together!”

A 42-year-old woman from South Asia participating in the march said, “I came out today because I believe in the importance of solidarity among women worldwide, who are all suffering from the effects of misogyny and patriarchy.” The woman, a youth educator and social activist, urged the South Korean government to “introduce new curricula into the education system that teach about women’s safety, online safety, digital sex crimes, the influence of the porn industry, healthy relationships, and gender roles and stereotypes.”

A 27-year-old Korean participant, who works as a documentary filmmaker in the UK, said, “I am standing in front of the South Korean Embassy with a heavy heart” and expressed hope that the “government will strongly punish the perpetrators and accomplices and seek justice for the victims.”

In Tokyo, Japan, Chinese feminists living there also held a rally in front of the South Korean Embassy on Saturday afternoon, calling for attention to the digital sex crimes crisis in Korea.

By Park Hyun-jung, staff reporter

[befemininenow]

You admit that she was one of your earlier model crushes as a teen. She was also popular with your peers as well. But while your friends and peers preferred to see her as a cis girl, you saw her for who she was: a trans girl model who would inspire other trans girls to break their shell and come out. If only you knew she would be one of many reasons that you found your trans identity. The real question is: Would you transition far enough, just like she did?

-History time: When she made her debut as a model around 2009 or 2010, she became popular overnight and gained a following among netizens and teenagers in her native China. But in December 2010-January 2011, she came out as a post-op trans girl after somebody threatened to out her. People were shocked and were in unbelief to learn she was “amab” (assigned male at birth). Some say it was a publicity stunt as her popularity grew bigger since then. It didn’t take too long for the media to brand her as “China’s first trans model”, which gained polarizing results both in China and internationally.

Her name is Jessica Liu Shi Han, a Chinese transgender model that made an impact on LGBT+ people in her country and challenged the negative stereotypes society had placed on trans people at the time. She became respected as one of the first openly transgender models in Asia. But it was also the threat of being outed that made her come out as trans to an unaccepting public. All of this happened not too long ago and it shows how dangerous outing a trans person can be. Not just because it can damage somebody’s future, but it can also endanger their lives.

I remember reading about her in an online article I found when this first happened. Although some people my age range were aware or heard of trans people existing as part of the LGBT+ community, this was perhaps one of the fewest times I found out about passing trans girls. Of course, being a teenage guy, I found her attractive. But what I couldn’t believe was that she passed well enough that I couldn’t “tell” she was trans. In a sense, I felt a little hope that one day, I could transform into a girl like her. Nowadays, it’s become somewhat easier to get the needed help to transition into their ideal female (or male) self, without being too dysphoric on how they look. But it’s also important to watch out from those who wish to drag you down. As difficult as coming out is, it’s best to live who you internally are on the outside instead of suffering in the wrong body, just like Jessica.

[chengchengj]

Wen Qing : GIIIIRL YOU SO WELL DO YOU LIKE GIRLS? Jiang Yanli: Yesss girl I'm a feminist

[testure-1988]

Doing my patriotic duty by stealing every copy of the Epoch Times newspaper from the diner and throwing them in the trash

[antis-hero]

"On college campuses throughout America, however, feminism is mainstream. Courses in Women's Studies abound, and millions of impressionable women take them. But notice they don't call these classes Feminist Studies (which would be the accurate title) because the term women suggests that all women think alike���or should think alike. (That's also why the phrase 'women's movement' is preferred over 'feminist movement.') Yet Women's Studies classes do not appeal to most women—they are nothing more than feminist indoctrination. The professors teach that gender is not a fact of nature, or biologically determined, but a social or environmental construct created by old-fashioned stereotyped training. They consider it a given that women have been subordinated and discriminated against by an unjust male patriarchy and need government action by legislatures and courts to give women their rights."

-Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker

From The Flipside of Feminism, 2011

[fearandhatred]

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[formywriyinglalala]

Thesis Share: "Research on Chinese Online Boys' Love Novels from the Perspective of Gender Theory" by Zhang Jiaojiao

uke: bottom, submissive, "feminine"

seme: top, dominant, "masculine"

"Even if women wish to pursue equal romance in BL fiction through male romance, a priori gender judgments and comparisons still exist and are directly projected onto the male 'seme' and 'uke' roles. This leads to the emergence of a distinction between the superior and inferior among characters that should be absolutely equal in these works."

"In the heterosexual world, marriage, sex, and procreation are often intertwined, resulting in the repression of homosexuality. However, BL novels do not portray resistance to this heterosexual hegemony but rather compliance. They subtly incorporate the power oppression of women by men in heterosexual relationships into male-male stories, continuously reshaping male images to meet the needs of heterosexual relationships. Under the guise of male-male romance, they tell stories of heterosexual love. The weakened males, the beautiful 'ukes,' the pregnant men, and the blushing virgin 'ukes' are essentially projections of women themselves. They are women donning male shells, falling in love with another man under the shadow of a patriarchal society, and then forming a complete family by having children with them."

"Thus, although BL novels contain elements of homosexuality, under the representation of homosexuality lies a reproduction of heterosexuality, a unique expression of women's self. On one hand, they desire ideal men, equal love, and a complete family. On the other hand, they believe these demands are difficult to achieve in real life as women. They think that only male love can escape the oppression of money, procreation, and marriage in love, leading to the awkward scenario of two men in love but not genuinely in love with each other. Behind the protagonists of BL novels are the voices of heterosexual women; behind male-male romance is the reflection of heterosexual issues, with women finally daring to confront their desires by residing behind male facades."

"BL novels are essentially misogynistic; they are tools for women to escape their female identities."

Limitation: The article's limitation lies in its attempt to interpret the psychology of BL readers using Freudian theory.