Angry young man (South Korea)

Idaenam (Korean: 이대남; Hanja: 二代男),[1] Isipdaenamja (Korean: 20대 남자; Hanja: 二十代男子; lit. man in twenties) or Men in their Twenties Angry[2] is a newly coined word in South Korea that began to be used in the late 2010s. The term is mainly used to refer to negative tendencies toward feminism in men in their 20s.[3] The opposite expression is Idaenyo (Korean: 이대녀; Hanja: 二代女), which refers to the generation of women in their 20s.[4] In English-speaking media, there is a tendency to simply refer to it as young man or angry young man.[5][6]

Views

Idaenam has a negative tendency toward feminism, and some are said to be similar to broflake. They are also compared to "Angry Young Men" in Susan Faludi's 1991 book 《Backlash》.[7] Idaenams are strongly opposed to "Misandry" (Korean: 남성혐오 or 남혐).[8]

In 2021, a survey by National Human Rights Commission of Korea found that 70% of man in twenties opposed affirmative action against women.[9] Some Idaenams think that men in their 20s who do not discriminate against women are becoming victims of reverse discrimination by affirmative action (for women) led by older male feminists.[10]

Unlike Angry white men, a low-income far-right force in the United States, anti-feminism in South Korea is rather more pronounced in high-income young men.[11] In addition, according to statistics from 2021, men in their 20s and 30s ("Idaenam") are less receptive to LGBT rights than men in their 40s and 50s ("386 Generation male").[12]

Idaenam in South Korean politics

The Idaenam phenomenon is a social backlash similar to the Western "angry white man", but this often leads to political conservatism or populism (Including both left and right sides). The JoongAng Ilbo, a South Korean centre-right journalist, reported that Lee Jun-seok, the current leader of People Power Party, uses anti-feminist investigations to win Idaenam's votes.[13]

South Korea's liberal Moon Jae-in government has implemented a more women-friendly policy than the previous conservative regime, and men in their 20s have severe antipathy against it.[14] Yoon Seok-youl of right-wing conservative People Power Party and Lee Jae-myung of left-liberal Democratic Party of Korea, the main candidates for the 2022 South Korean presidential election, are controversial for taking a negative attitude toward feminism to win Idaenam's vote.[4] Centrist conservative-liberal People Party's Ahn Cheol Soo criticized Yoon and Lee for promoting misogyny in awareness of Idaenam.[15] In particular, South Korean right-wing socially conservatives are trying to make Idaenam their main supporter by actively attacking feminism.[14][16][17]

See also

References
  1. https://www.huffingtonpost.kr/news/idaenam/
  2. https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002753453
  3. Kim Sooah (2021) Men in their Twenties Angry at Feminism : Discourse Analysis of “Megal and the Finger Controversy”. Korea Citation Index
  4. "이대남 찾으러 간 윤석열·이재명…'이대녀'는 누가 챙길까" [Yoon Seokyeol and Lee Jaemyeong who went to find Idaenam ... Who will take care of "Idaenyeo"?]. 쿠키뉴스. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  5. "Young men in South Korea feel victimised by feminism". The Economist. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021. Was it merely an innocent sausage? Last month a poster promoting camping kit sold by gs25, a chain of shops in South Korea, included an illustration of two fingers reaching out to grasp a steaming banger. Angry young men complained.
  6. "South Korea's young men are fighting against feminism". CNN. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2021. On the same street corner in Seoul where 10,000 South Korean women rallied last October to demand an end to spy cameras and sexual violence, the leader of a new activist group addressed a small group of angry young men.
  7. "한국의 '이대남'과 미국의 '브로플레이크'...'백래시의 시간'이 왔다" [Korea's "Idaenam" and America's "broflake" ... "Time for Backlash" is here.]. 프레시안. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  8. "정치권이 키운 '이대남' 프레임, 결국 GS25 사태 불러일으켜". 투데이신문. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  9. "이대남 70% "여성할당제 반대"". 파이낸셜뉴스. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  10. "이대남의 항변 "우리를 여성 혐오자라고 착각하지 마라"". The Chosun Ilbo. 5 January 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  11. https://alook.so/posts/KmtbXb
  12. https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/18801
  13. "'안티페미' 목청 올리는 이준석 정치적 영토 '이대남' 챙기기?". JoongAng Ilbo. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  14. S. Nathan Park (23 June 2021). "Why So Many Young Men in South Korea Hate Feminism". Foreign Policy.
  15. "안철수 "尹·洪, 이대남 눈치보며 여성공약…이재명, 편가르기"". JoongAng Ilbo. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  16. "The Little Symbol Triggering Men in South Korea's Gender War". New York Times. 30 July 2021.
  17. ""혐오를 이용하는 치졸한 정치, 이제는 멈추자"" ["Cheap politics that uses hatred. Let's stop now".]. 프레시안. 13 November 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021. 안티페미니즘으로 '재미를 본' 국민의힘은 그 전략을 숨기려 하지도 않는다. 대선 후보가 여성가족부 폐지, 성폭력 무고죄 신설을 공약으로 내세웠다. 성평등을 위한다며 어디서 했는지도 모를 여성할당제를 폐지해야 한다고 한다. 여성혐오에 편승한, 참으로 게으르고 비열한 정치전략이 아닐 수 없다. ... 트럼프주의가 젊은 백인 남성들을 집결시켰듯, 안티페미니즘은 현재 한국의 젊은 남성을 하나의 정치세력으로 집결시켰다. 혐오가 정치전략으로 사용된 것은 분명 어제오늘의 일이 아니다. 사회에 혐오가 들불처럼 번질 때, 기득권이 만든 기득권 중심의 구조는 사회적 약자 간의 갈등으로 치환된다. [People's Power Party, which has 'fun' with anti-feminism, does not even try to hide its strategy. Presidential candidate (Yoon Seok-yeol) pledged to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and strengthen the "crime of defamation" of sexual violence. It is said that the women's quota system, which did not exist much for gender equality, should be abolished. This is a really lazy and mean political strategy riding on misogyny. ... Just as Trumpism has gathered young white men, anti-feminism has now gathered young men in South Korea as a political force. It is certainly not yesterday or today that hatred has been used as a political strategy. When hatred spreads like wildfire in society, the vested structure created by vested interests is replaced by conflicts between the socially disadvantaged.]
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