Two Opposition Candidates Want to Eliminate the Gender Equality Ministry
Two ROK opposition candidates appear to be trying to tap into part of the male voting demographic that have been unhappy with supposed preferential treatment given to females:
Campaign pledges to abolish the gender equality ministry by two presidential contenders of the main opposition party are sparking a major backlash from in and outside the party.
Former four-term lawmaker Yoo Seong-min and three-term lawmaker Ha Tae-keung, both competing to win the People Power Party (PPP)’s ticket to run in the March 9 presidential election, pledged to dissolve the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family earlier this week as part of their campaign promises.
Posting a message on his social media account Tuesday, Yoo said, “There’s no reason to maintain a separate ministry on gender equality and family when half of the population are female and all the other government ministries are (already) related with women’s issues.”
Yonhap
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The bureaucracy won’t allow it. There’s too much money to be made doing little to nothing for a lot of money. We see it within the US a few departments within the federal government. Too many high paying jobs eliminated and too much money to be spent elsewhere, like not borrowed in the first place. It’s the old joke about a night watchman, an entire bureaucracy is built around him. The bureaucracy goes over budget and has to make cuts. They lay off the night watchman…
The TOK Tochak Waegu John Lee’s Right-Wing Party, trying to turn back the clock on Women’s rights. There’s a good reason why bald-headed men are a-holes.
To be fair, the major achievements of the Gender and Family Ministry are;
a) make prostitution illegal(not much luck there, since it has gone underground and
still growing)
b) make it very easy to accuse a man of sexual harassment with little or no evidence
Other than that it has done very little for gender equality and families and is just a symbolic and some might add useless bureaucracy eating up tax money. It has also become a lighting rod for men who believe that the Ministry has become a base for arrogance among Korean women and a symbol of how the leftists feel about them.
Not knowing the major players in Korean politics, I am limiting my remarks to the general idea of a gender equality organization on principle: it stinks.
Men and women are not identical. Each has been uniquely wired for different tasks, so to speak. Neither is worth more or less than the other; but they are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually different.
Korean culture certainly needed to teach children more respect for women than traditionally shown; but that needs to come from the child’s own parents, not a nameless, faceless, unelected bureaucracy accountable to no one…
It’s up to the South Koreans to fix it. Or live with the consequences if they don’t.
Based on the reaction to Winnie’s Lesser Pox, I’m not convinced Koreans understand personal responsibility. And if they look to Big Brother for answers, they’ll look like North Koreans in gno time at all.