Some of the comments read like they are mad that the men in the show are always portrayed as bad and incapable, whereas the women always being the victim.

People had an issue with this in other movies too. And not just men lol.

I don’t think it helps equality to make one gender appear inherently bad and stupid and the other always weak and vulnerable victims who can’t do any wrong.

That being said. I did some research why some Korean men seem to be triggered by feminist themes. I found this.

“Feminist discourse promotes hostility and fear in young Korean men because it has been misconstrued as inherently radical and misandrist.

Online communities advocating women’s rights have led to a growing misunderstanding that feminism is ubiquitous with misandry. The Korean website Megalia was founded to combat and mirror pervasive misogyny by providing an online forum where women could air similarly derogatory comments toward men. An escalating extremist culture of misandry led to the site being repeatedly shut down, with this more radical discourse gravitating to other websites and online communities. Launched in 2016, splinter site Womad features posts claiming to have committed crimes against men.

Interviewed for The Korea Times, researcher Lee Na-mi worries that the “rebound phenomenon” embodied by such websites, in retaliation to misogynistic sites such as Ilbe Storage, risks the feminist movement being “distorted and perceived wrongly.” This is echoed by Korean feminist YunKim Jiyoung, who tells Vice that “feminists are being presented as misandrists to be silenced and to have their efforts for gender equality stigmatized.” This is despite Womad’s doctrine specifying that its members do not define themselves as feminists. “

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In other words, unlike the west and different parts of the word where feminism started as a movement to break down gender roles to create equality among the sexes, that wasn’t the case in Korea. So even with the latest wave of feminism that is going downhill and more counterproductive than helping. People remember what the term generally stands for here. But Korea didn’t had the first or second weave feminism, the term was firstly used by radical misandrist groups on the internet as a reaction to misogynistic groups. So feminist = misandrist/anti men in Korea.

There is unfortunately no distinction between actual women rights activism and femcel is if you use this word. They will throw it all into one pot. This happens when there is no proper discourse about gender related topics and more gender war going on then actually listening to each other.