You’re probably wondering what’s happened with Feminoonas right now and why we haven’t been posting much as of late and in case you haven’t seen it in the last ask, I’m gonna give you a small recap.
Admin Anna’s house burned down. She’s fine, everyone is fine. But right now she is without internet and can only really get on AIM for short amounts of time via her phone, so she’s out.
Admin Danni is in theatre production and her show exploded. Literally. Damage control and exams has pretty much become her life and thinking about K-pop, feminism and the combination of the two is not in the cards right now.
Admin Brianna’s life exploded.
Admin Genesis has left tumblr, and thus, Feminoonas indefinitely. Please please PLEASE send good thoughts, well wishes, prayers etc. her way. If/when she returns, she will be welcomed back into our loving arms.
So this is to say that Feminoonas is still active and around. Life is just being super chate and we have to deal with that first. That being said:
If anyone would like to submit their own articles, opinions, etc. then we will gladly publish them to keep the place going. However while we are away, no asks will be answered and no new content will be generated. This sadly includes Feminist Seungho.
Any questions regarding this can be directed to my personal tumblr and I’ll get to them ASAP. Until then I’ll see you in the beginning of May. Take care, all!
~Admin Danni
Anonymous asked: Is this site still active? I really like it but you guys haven't posted in a bit.
We’re still kicking, I swear! Admin Anna’s house burned down and she’s without internet. Admin Danni’s theatre show exploded in her face and she’s trying to do damage control while having finals. Admin Brianna’s life exploded suddenly and she’s doing stuff with that. And Admin Genesis left tumblr indefinitely.
I promise I’ll start posting things after next week. <3
~Admin Danni
I want to apologize for my behavior and language on feminoonas. I understand that I’ve been very aggressive and rude when it comes to answering questions, or just posting in general. I never want to discourage discourse that would people better understand feminism, but I see now that that is exactly what I’ve been doing.
Again, I apologize for my rude behavior and if you’ve asked a question and I’ve been condescending with you I am very sorry.
-Genesis
Anonymous asked: Being cisgender does not preclude talking about homosexual issues. Cisgender just means your bits and your mind mesh. I'm cisgender and not straight. Just sayin'.
Okay? We know that.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, anon.
~Admin Danni
Anonymous asked: about daesung... don't you think it was, well, maybe a little insensitive to sing in front of /flaming car wrecks/ in the fantastic baby mv?
Honestly /HONESTLY/ it is not up to the fan to decide whether daesung is truly repentant or not or how he should conduct his life after. what the fuck?
what does that have to do with feminism? or racism? or any of the intersectionality of -isms within feminism? because that’s what this blog is about….
Not fans being assholes about a tragedy that happened to someone. This is between Daesung and the family members of the motorcist. No one else.
Jesus ya’ll are heartless.
-admin:genesis
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-admin:genesis
Anonymous asked: thank god i'm not the only one who's bothered by the grand narrative. a friend of mine suggested that site as a place to discuss feminist issues in kpop and i'm pretty sure i laughed for ten minutes straight. every post on there seems to be a slut-shamey, whitesplaining, condescending mess.
I am going through his blog and I fucking hate it.
HATE IT. He is very condescending, but more than that he doesn’t check his male prividlge, and he thinks he speaks for all hetero males when he writes his generalizing slut-shamey shit.
There’s good articles but mainly just ugh.
-admin:genesis
Okay here’s my little rant about the Grand Narrative and why I am iffy about that blog. It’s written from the perspective of a white man.
I don’t know or think he does check his privilege as a male and as a WHITE male living abroad when he writes these articles.
I am reading his article on Hyuna and… I….what even?
The opening is this:
With enough T&A to fill an American Apparel catalogue, then yeah, I couldn’t agree more, and I’m not the only one that thinks the combination of red high heels, ripped jean shorts, and a singlet looks “kinda pornstar-ish” either.
(later on)
What’s more, I think I speak for most heterosexual men when I say that many of these robotic “sexy moves”, mandatory foryoungwomen in K-pop and the Korean media, actuallydon’tdoitfor us at all.
What’s more, I think I speak for most heterosexual men when I say that many of these robotic “sexy moves”, mandatory for young women in K-pop and the Korean media, actually don’tdoit for us at all. Instead, they merely reduce:
…a concept as complicated, multilayered, and diverse as [female sexuality]…to expression through a single channel…one involving lacy lingerie, skintight clothing, and the rest of what Ariel Levycalls “the caricature of female hotness”…[this] has to be seen as construction or a fabrication, in which the complexities of the subject are flattened into a single, authoritative dimension, and in which all other possibilities are erased. (Meenakshi Durham, The Lolita Effect, p. 71)
OKAY.
Female sexuality isn’t a mysterious chasm of diverse puzzles. Patriarchy is what makes it so ‘complicated’ because of the gender binaries place on it.
I am not going to go on a whole thing about this because this sentence mark his grave:
I’m not the only one that thinks the combination of red high heels, ripped jean shorts, and a singlet looks “kinda pornstar-ish” either.
That is slut-shamey as fuck. What the fuck is it about short-shorts that make you think of a porn-star? What? He places these restrictions on what sexiness in a woman should be in order for her to be successful and taken seriously throughout this entire article.
Honestly. Fuck that article.
He goes on to break down the article LINE BY FUCKING LINE. And ends the article like this:
And hell, combine that with the pouting, the childishness, the strategic jiggling and strutting of one’s physical assets…then as I type this, I’m suddenly left with the feeling that the whole combined song and MV is an ode to “aegyo” (애교) and especially “princess disease” (공주병). No, not the narcissism that comes with the latter, but more the whining and bratty behavior (and aegyo) to get one’s way with one’s boyfriend.
I want to see an article breaking down and analyzing Bi’s “Rainism” and whether or not “Magic Stick” is a euphamism for his cock and how that plays into the KPOP market.
I think Hyuna’s bubble pop was sexy, hot fire and the only reason we are over analyzing the supposed “too sexy” concept (I mean Rain’s ENTIRE fifth album and its promotion involved shirtless-ness and hip thrusts yet that motherfucker is walking around like an Easy, Breezy, Bad Bitch and no one cares about the ‘overt’ sexual concept with him) is because she is a woman.
Sexism places boundaries on how a woman, especially an entertainer, can act and how she can express herself. The terms classless, slut, prude, whore are all pegged on women. But is a man is being sexy- that’s it. There’s nothing else to anaylze.
Fuck that. If he wants to write about gender he needs to check his male priviledge like yesterday.
-admin: Genesis
Anonymous asked: Finally, some critique against S&M! I've been watching their videos since before they started doing the k-pop shows (which is really when they started to gain the popularity and reputation they have now), and I thought they were nice people. The more I watch their videos, though, the more I realize how they're a classic example of your regular white, privilege-denying foreigner. I've never said anything because quite frankly, the k-pop fandom is not conducive to insightful discussion.
No fandom is welcoming to addressing problematic elements within.
D:
But yeah, they suck. And the thing that bothers me the most is when people say “but they’re funny!!1111”- because their comedy (and they aren’t that fucking funny. Just tumblr and 4chan jokes ಠ_ಠ) somehow negates all the racist, classist, ableist, sexist shit they’ve said.
ಠ_ಠ
-admin:genesis
Anonymous asked: Do you think the MBC issued showed they understood why what they did was wrong?
I think it showed that they care about international relations with consumers- not in a omg-i-care-about-your-support but more like shut-the-fuck-up-and-don’t-taint-us kinda way.
So they know it’s bad for international business, but not why it is bad in terms of the racist history of blackface.
Admin:Genesis