“Uterine Morality”

[Randy W]

from the Sixth Tone

The Curious Case of China’s Feminist Eugenicists
The country’s extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.’

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It may sound like the plot to some absurdist “Brave New World” knockoff, but in some corners of the Chinese internet, radical, self-proclaimed feminists are serious about what they call zigong daode — “uterine morality” — and they’re not willing to accept anything but the very best genetic material. The earliest use of uterine morality I’ve found was in a 2013 thread on the Baidu Feminism Tieba forum titled, “Women Should Establish ‘Morals of the Uterus.’” In it, the author makes a modest proposal: “The uterus is a holy site of human evolution, not a toxic factory for churning out garbage or petulant kids. Because women bear this huge responsibility, they should establish a system of uterine morals. For instance, births should be ‘neither random nor rampant,’ and (women should) ‘bear and rear better children.’”

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Ultimately, uterine morality’s resurgence in popularity should be understood within the context of a growing misogynistic backlash in China, and the concurrent polarization of Chinese feminism into different online factions. In recent years, feminist groups have faced severe financial and political limitations, making it harder for people to understand or engage in women’s advocacy. Many members of the younger generation of feminist keyboard warriors have no concept of pre-2015 feminist activism. Isolated in their real lives, their only outlet for their frustrations is the internet. It’s not surprising that, rather than engage with their immediate environment, they’ve focused their energies instead on combating hypermasculinity online and berating “disappointing” women into wokeness.

 

 

[Allon]

The phrase "growing misogynistic backlash" is quite appropriate not only for China but Korea, where it seems to me much worse. Korean women there are so stereotyped. With the fast moving economy comes fast moving morals and culture.  In some of the forums, women seem so confused and coming to America seems the only answer. And by any means.