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Finger Pinching Controversy in South Korea Explained

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Finger Pinching Controversy in South Korea Explained

I saw a a post about the finger pinching controversy once again in this sub, and I’d just like to get it explained properly instead of just saying ‘small penis’ and move on.

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So basically, the finger pinching gesture is controversial because a radical feminist website called Megalia used it as their logo. They claimed that they were mirroring the misogyny widely spread in society and online, and decided to mirror those misogyny. This Megalia was very controversial and created several controversies, often being accused of genuine misandry and was compared with Ilbe. Megalia greatly contributed to the skepticism of feminism in Korea too. Womad), an offspring website of Megalia, became even more extreme and was basically a borderline hate crime cult against men in Korea. Examples of their actions are drugging and raping a boy, several posts about claiming to murder men, and doxing and posting nude photos of men online without consent.

One of the Womad users was caught by the police after posting a nude photo without consent, which led to Hyewha Station Protests. The reason why the protests started was because these Womad users claimed that the user who had posted the nude photo was caught early because she was a woman. and that the police had a double standard. These protests were the biggest feminist protests in the history of South Korea, which brought down the public reputation of feminism in Korea even more.

So basically, now in the minds of the people who claim that finger pinching is misandry, it goes like this: Finger pinching = Megalia = Womad = Crime Cult against Men.

Now then, “Why do these people think that artists would put these logos”, one could ask.

Well, there were two major events that led to this insanity.

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One was this camping poster made my GS25, a chain convenience store company in Korea. The poster brought controversies as some people claimed that the sausage being put in front of the pinching finger was aimed to promote Megalia, along with the Emotional Camping Must-Have Item being a reverse acronym of Megal, a short-handed word for Megalia.

Translated: I was banned for saying some things that offended some men online, but I have never quit being a femi(a short-handed word for feminist). I will keep doing femi(putting the finger pinching sign in this case) secretly and cunningly without you knowing.

The Second was this comment made by an artist of MapleStory that was accused to have put the Megal-hand in her works. Although the scene was very momentary and the artist was later reported to be another person later, her comments caused several people to be cautious of these ‘pinching signs’, especially in the video gaming industry.

I’m pretty sure that this was not big, but there was also a time when some people would make posts online verifying that they are Megalians.

Now, I don’t really support a lot of these finger pinching controversies. I think some people are being way too sensitive about the gesture. However, I thought that it would be good to note what it means. The controversies are probably caused because people think it’s a logo of Megalia, not because they think it’s mocking their penis size too.

Thanks for reading.

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