Annette Koh

Public space, the right to the city, and civic engagement. How can we improve equity and access through participatory urbanism? Ph.D. student in Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Former resident of Seoul & San Francisco.

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> Pop him over the head for turning you into a cat

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HAWAIIAN CONSCIENCISM with Linda Tuhiwai Smith on May 2, 2013 at UH Manoa. She spoke on activism, feminism, culture, difference,...

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In which I venture out from my corner of the internet

I had some long talks back in the day with boyfriends and guy friends about how many men they know who are not only sexist but actually straight up misogynist. Now that I’m back in my grad school bubble, I forgot how bafflingly deep-rooted sexism really is.

For some, women are evolutionarily ornamental and societal/consumer pressure to wear make-up, spend hundreds of dollars on heels and other torture devices are signs of women’s innate fluffy frivolity. “Korean women are so lucky, all you have to do is shop and look pretty.”

Some are just super confused.

(from Manboobz)

Some blame “western women” from everything from the lack of manufacturing jobs to the rise of autism.

And some conflate concern for women with neglect of men.

And some just think women doth protest too much. Thankfully the internet is not always wrong (see both comments below, emphasis added)

alex (June 20, 2012 at 1:32 am)

agreed. as much as i support a lot of these feminist beliefs, repetition just gets in the way of the message, and makes them seem like broken records wanting attention. (not saying that’s what they are, just mentioning how they seem sometimes)

Tandel

June 20, 2012 at 2:45 am

I’m actually finding the repetition, and especially ubiquity, of stuff like this to be quite effective. Until several months ago, these feminist issues weren’t something I thought much about. Then it was suddenly in a LOT of the internet media I consume be it Facebook or the 30 some odd webcomics I read.

Now feminist issues and my behavior in regards to it are something I consciously think about with great frequency. I wasn’t a raging misogynist or anything, but there are lots of little issues I didn’t even think to consider before. I’ll mess up from time to time, but awareness of it as a problem is of paramount import. This has only occurred because of the constant reminders I have seen across the internet. The broken record is a necessity.

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