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New gender gap (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What happened in South Korea in 2015?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gamergate idiology hit hard there. There's recently been some conspiracy nonsense about a hand gesture in games there.

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

There’s recently been some conspiracy nonsense about a hand gesture in games there.

par for the course: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-listed-as-a-symbol-of-hate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhhh, it’s a little bit different.

The hand gesture in question is a pinching motion using the index and thumb finger, which had been used as a symbol in the now-defunct Megalia, one of Korea’s largest radical feminist online communities, to ridicule the size of Korean men’s genitals.

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

Yes, it is different.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

the government stopped putting the chemicals in the water that makes the frogs gay