Big Trouble in Little C -- The Korean Wars of Misogyny

So, here's an interesting story, and one I'm considering making a video about.

Apparently, there's been quite a bit of drama floating around the Korean gacha-gaming community recently concerning the Megalia symbol. The short version of the story is that in SK, this "little c" symbol has been finding its way into a lot of art in Korean made gacha games. This hand gesture is not a 4channic racist dog-whistle, as one might expect would be the case in the United States: it is, instead, a commonly used symbol on the 4chan-esque women's forum MEGALIA -- a site that has been at times called a women's rights meme-haven, and at other times been called a misandrist hive of scum and villainy.

What does this symbol represent, in the context of misogyny? Well... I'll give you one guess, and a hint: it's less of a lower case c, and more of a lower case p.

Gacha-gamers very often tend to be anime-loving men, and in South Korea, this group of people tends to be especially ... sensitive. We'll talk about that in the video, but Korean gacha gamers go to extreme lengths to protest what the average person might consider to be trivial things: like renting a truck to drive in circles around a corporate office all day, everyday, for a month, over the addition of more clothes to a female character's model.

This is an amusingly silly story on the surface, but it goes far deeper than one might realize: South Korea, more than any East Asian country, has ... let's say, a problem with machismo. Any East Asian will tell you that a sort of unspoken, often both slightly racist and stereotypical, "marriage hierarchy" exists, and that in that hierarchy, "don't let your daughters date Korean men, because they treat their women the worst" is a not an uncommon stereotype.

If I do make the video, we'll take a nice, deep-dive into Korean culture, and see if we can come to the surface with a respectful, nuanced look into ongoing, very serious gender conflicts going on in Korea, through the lens of gacha-games.

Let me know what you think about this idea! I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and more importantly perhaps, your experiences. Oh, and if you visit NYC after this video comes out and you see a truck circling an office building blasting anti-Moon Channel slogans, please come in and join me for some coffee. I just restocked the office with winter cookies, too!

- Moony