Chapter 0 – A Male-Dominated Society
—Men’s predominance of women—
This is Korea’s nth parallel world, where men’s predominance over women forms the basis of socio-economic activities.
Men are in charge of most of the economic activities, and women are expected to take care of children and families.
Men lead the maintenance and innovation of society, and women are seen as supporting men to achieve maximum productivity.
Pregnancy and childbirth, which are women’s unique roles, are of course women’s responsibility, and childrearing is almost the only field in which women have a competitive edge over men, so women’s childrearing at home is strongly recommended.
With the high productivity of male workers, the level of economic development is maintained without relying on women’s economic activities.
Such high productivity is due not only to the government’s incentive policies, such as a stable family environment and tax exemption for marriage and childcare, but also to the social atmosphere that favors ‘working men’.
Preferential treatment for working men is common even within the family, and one of the important roles of women and wives is to relieve men’s fatigue and satisfy sexual pleasure after returning home from work.
The consciousness that a goal-oriented man who does not hesitate to compete is suitable for social life and relationship-oriented and emotional woman is effective in taking care of a family is spreading throughout society.
With the experience and knowledge of social life, men have the authority to decide the big and small matters in the family, but at the same time, they have the responsibility of taking care of the family’s livelihood.
The patriarchal family culture, in which women have the authority to carry out large and small affairs and raise children under the protection of men, is taken for granted.
Even in home education, boys are mainly taught responsibility, duty, and rational decision-making (by inducing boys to order dinner menus at family gatherings and asking why).
Girls are taught from an early age to be submissive, to respect men (usually to their father or older brother), to place women lower than men, and to do housework.
The father or eldest son (in the absence of the father), who is absolutely the head of the family, has the authority to decide on matters of great importance in the family.
The eldest son, who has grown up enough and became an adult, directs and controls even the actions of the mother when the father is absent.
Discipline within the family is also carried out by the father, and the subjects of discipline are the spouse and daughters, but sons are not punished even if they do something wrong.
Instead, they constantly show what happened due to their faults, admitting their faults themselves, and writing self-reflection statements to prevent recurrence.
Sometimes weak-willed and emotional wives take it for granted that they are disciplined by their husbands.
As children watch their mothers being disciplined by their fathers, they naturally learn the hierarchy of women under men.
When the husband dies, the wife inherits the spouse’s share of the husband’s property and the right to receive the national pension.
If there is a son in the family, the eldest son of the son becomes the guardian of the mother.
The differences between women and men and their social roles are important in kindergarten and elementary, middle and high school education, and children naturally understand and accept the differences between women and men because they are taught at home.
After graduating from high school, which is compulsory education, most female students take bridal classes at home where they learn recipes and household chores from their mothers until they get married. (Of course, this includes skills to sexually satisfy men)
At the same time, you will work as a simple service part-time job or as a low-level employee who joins the company and performs auxiliary tasks.
While some female students who go to college receive higher education, they are taught a strong sense of male superiority at university, which is not the case for male students.
The reason why universities conduct education on male predominance over women separately for female students is to ensure that the role of women in charge of household chores does not become indolent due to their social status.
The aspect of mental education to maintain the socially agreed ranking of women below men is the biggest, but also, because it is difficult and difficult to juggle both housework and social life, there are aspects that require hard training when students are.
Female students, who are an absolute minority in universities, are mobilized for all sorts of events at each university unit (university headquarters, colleges, departments, science student associations, etc.) And play an auxiliary role to male students.
The standards for corporal punishment applied only to female students, who do not accept male students, are often subjected to corporal punishment by male students who are disciplinarians.
Women who have only graduated from high school recognize and accept the status and position of inferior women only through etiquette education and social atmosphere at home.
There is no need for high education in marriage, and in social life after graduating from college, they are subject to all kinds of sexual harassment similar to themselves (sexual harassment and often occurring sexual assaults against female college graduates by male employees with qualifications full of college or high school graduates are famous), The desire to go to college, which requires education to make men’s predominance over women, is not so great.
However, women of the sub-class, which rarely appear, still aspire to discipline in college for sexual satisfaction.
And there are often cases where a person’s disposition develops while being disciplined in college without even realizing it.
Women who have completed higher education as above, have high social status, but are located under men and get sexual excitement while experiencing all sorts of humiliation and humiliation.
Unlike them, it is rare, but college admission is popular among women who genuinely want to have a high social position or professional knowledge.
For the higher education of these minority women, some universities in Seoul and regional metropolitan cities are designated as coeducational.
‘Namjoon Women’s University’, the main stage of this article, is also a university located in Seoul designated as coeducational.
The rest of the universities are all male schools, and female students are selected from colleges specializing in special fields (nursing, education, etc.).
Unmarried women work in low-intensity labor service jobs after graduating from high school, preventing outflow into simple service jobs for men in charge of high value-added flagship industries and high-intensity manual labor.
This is because the wages of simple service jobs, which are mainly held by women, are really low compared to those in the main industries mainly held by men (even women are excluded from the minimum wage).
Women do not get a job to earn money, but rather to make pocket money to pass the time or to find a partner to marry in the company they work for.
It is a very rare society in which a very small percentage of college-educated women insist on being single and live a social life even when they are old.