Even fairy tale characters are no longer safe from accusations from feminists:
Gender Equality and Family Minister Chung Hyun-back recently accused the woodcutter, the character in the folktale “The Woodcutter and the Fairy,” which can be found in the children section at the Cheong Wa Dae website, to press for her case of feminism. Captured from Cheong Wa Dae website
A prominent lawyer says Gender Equality and Family Minister Chung Hyun-back’s depiction of a folktale hero as a kidnapper-rapist is not based on law but on herd mentality.
Hwang Ju-myung, a former judge and chairman of HMP Law, said Chung did not provide evidence to support her accusation and by her logic would have to prepare for a legal challenge from the woodcutter in the “Woodcutter and the Fairy.”
“Besides, it is being silly to accuse the character from the old story of such a heinous crime,” Hwang said when asked his legal view of the minister’s argument. “As far as the law is concerned, it is hard to find any indication in it that he resorted to coercion to have sex with the fairy or to force her to live with him.”
Chung claimed during a seminar Saturday: “When in elementary school, I took a great pity on the woodcutter but seen from the standpoint of the fairy, two children she had with him, and the fairy’s parents, he could be a kidnapper and rapist. The point of view should be changed in the context of achieving gender equality.”
The minister is a ferocious supporter of feminism and she attended a weekend pro-woman, anti-man protest and promised thousands of women that she wouldn’t forget their voices. [Korea Times]
You can read the rest at the link, but for those that have read this Korean fairy tale, there is no suggestion in the book that the woodcutter kidnapped and raped the fairy. I have to seriously wonder what is wrong with someone mentally to even think of something like that from this story? By the way it would be funny if someone sued Chung on behalf of the woodcutter for libel which this clear is.
Additionally when did it become okay to attend anti-man protests, especially a cabinet member in the South Korean government? What would people say if anti-women protests were held?
Another one of Commie Moon’s Crazy Commie Cabinet.
ChickenHead
6 years ago
This is complete nonsense.
The morality lessons in The Woodcutter and the Fairy have guided me well throughout my life and have served as an inspiration on how to conduct myself. I hope other children have been equally influenced and learned the valuable life lessons it presents.
When coming upon women bathing in secluded places, like unlocked apartments or hotel rooms my master key can open, I find taking their clothes certainly does inhibit them from leaving me… just like the fairy.
And I find they are very agreeable to acts of intimacy once I show them my woodcutter’s axe… though sometimes I first have to demonstrate it on a piece of furniture or a pet to get full cooperation.
I don’t understand how anybody can complain about all this.
I don’t even burden them with children. When I am done, I simply send them back to heaven where they belong.
Be free, my little fairies.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
She is just projecting her fantasy onto the story….
What caused this level of mental incompetence. Was a fall from a great height as a child, an explosion she was too close to or the member of a cabinet that leans so far left Kim Fatty won’t associate with them?
Another one of Commie Moon’s Crazy Commie Cabinet.
This is complete nonsense.
The morality lessons in The Woodcutter and the Fairy have guided me well throughout my life and have served as an inspiration on how to conduct myself. I hope other children have been equally influenced and learned the valuable life lessons it presents.
When coming upon women bathing in secluded places, like unlocked apartments or hotel rooms my master key can open, I find taking their clothes certainly does inhibit them from leaving me… just like the fairy.
And I find they are very agreeable to acts of intimacy once I show them my woodcutter’s axe… though sometimes I first have to demonstrate it on a piece of furniture or a pet to get full cooperation.
I don’t understand how anybody can complain about all this.
I don’t even burden them with children. When I am done, I simply send them back to heaven where they belong.
Be free, my little fairies.
She is just projecting her fantasy onto the story….
What caused this level of mental incompetence. Was a fall from a great height as a child, an explosion she was too close to or the member of a cabinet that leans so far left Kim Fatty won’t associate with them?
The Minister’s photo indicates she is post-menopausal and likely clinically insane.
http://img.yonhapnews.co.kr/etc/inner/EN/2017/07/27/AEN20170727006400315_02_i.jpg
Good grief.
I expect the grudge against woodcutters came from that face going through the chipper shredder.