This week I read “Who killed Soek-Fang Sim” and I am so
sorry for this erudite but poor female scholar. Since she is a Korean woman, so
I can’t help relating her to the book which is very popular worldwide recently “Kim
Ji-young, Born 1982”, which is written by Cho Nam-joo. It depicts a typical
life of Korean women. In all the other people’ eyes, Cho Nam-joo has a quiet
life full of happiness since she has a considerate husband and a cute girl, but
actually she was forced to give up her career (I am not sure but I heard that
women in Korea have hard life in workplace) to be a housewife. She was
criticized by others that she counted on her husband totally even given she had
done all the trivial house work. People always assume it’s natural for women to
do housework and they also think doing housework is not as tiring as working on
other things, which is totally wrong. This book is resisted by numerous Korean
men, and the average grade they give for this book is 2.8/10 while the average
grade given by Korean women is 9.5/10. I guess it is because they feel that
their absolute authority is threatened and shake by this book and they also
fear that this great book will wake the Korean women up.
Question: How can we let men know eradicate patriarchal society is also good for the majority
of ordinary men?
Reference
W.P. "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?", Berkeley
Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, 20(2) in 2014,
pp. 308–310.
Photo was retrieved from: https://www.amazon.com/Kim-Jiyoung-Born-1982-Novel/dp/1631496700
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