Feminist Shifts

So many things on my mind today. Police brutality and the horrible murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, the mass shootings in California, the continuing saga of Russian interference in our democracy and Trump’s involvment, DeSantis’s efforts to ban important education in Florida. And I think George Santos is a Russian plant.

One story I saw today in the NYTimes that might go under the radar: South Korean women are boycotting marriage and having children. They are sick of the extreme patriarchal culture in South Korea and are refusing to participate. In the OpEd, the author Hawon Jung wrote: “President Yoon Suk-yeol, elected last year, has suggested feminism is to blame for blocking “healthy relationships” between men and women.” I find that an incredibly small minded statement, because in fact the opposite is true. The patriarchy is the problem. It is still the problem in many parts of the world, to different degrees, our own culture included.

The above cartoon was drawin in the 90’s during a time when Americans didn’t undertand the word feminism-many still don’t, but it’s better. The word is not a derogatory phrase in most circles, I think. I don’t advocate violence, but to me the little girl in my cartoon embodies the term, sticking up for her family, her self and what she believes to be true.