{"id":1517,"date":"2021-11-08T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2023-07-19T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:23:10","slug":"important-quotes-from-kim-jiyoung-born-1982-by-cho-nam-joo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Important Quotes from Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hi Readers! November has been great so far because I have already read 3 books, of which I REALLY LOVED 2 books! Because I am constantly reading on the weekends, I am way behind on writing reviews! I read the most fascinating novel Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo. This book is so entirely fierce in portraying an important message to the world. The real scenario about gender discrimination in Korea is written with so much brevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can literally feel the anguish that women suffer because they are treated differently than men. Whether they should be born? Whether they should be educated? Whether they should work? Whether they should work after marriage? Whether they should work after becoming a mother? Whether they should be hired? Whether they should be paid as much as their male counterparts?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading this made me realize that even though some women have it better than the others, all women have been discriminated in one form or the other. Either by their parents who wanted a baby boy, or by their distant relatives who don\u2019t even know them, or by their potential employers who don\u2019t want to hire them for long-term assignments, or by their own husbands for choosing their career over their baby, or just the society for any number of infinite trifle reasons that are nobody\u2019s business but only the woman\u2019s!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will always recommend this book to everyone! This book is at a very high level, and you know that I don\u2019t review the books that I feel are absolutely top tier. I did rate this book at 5\/5 stars!<\/strong><\/span> Instead of a review, below are some of the quotes from the book! I basically highlighted the entire book, so it was difficult to choose from them. But, here they are. Please read them & think about them. And, when you next talk to a woman, think twice if the words coming out of your mouth are sane.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~GENDER DISCRIMINATION~~<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


She truly believed he was a decent husband to her for not sleeping around and not hitting her.

\u201cI don\u2019t understand. Half the population in the world goes through this every month. If a pharmaceutical company were to develop an effective pill specifically for menstrual cramps, not the \u2018pain medication\u2019 that makes you sick, they would make a fortune.\u201d

\u201cWhat\u2019s so great about being a schoolteacher?\u201d
\u201cYou get off work early. You have school vacations. It\u2019s easy to take time off. There\u2019s nothing like teaching for working moms.\u201d
\u201cSure. It\u2019s a great job for working parents. Then isn\u2019t it a great job for everyone? Why specifically women? Do women raise children alone? Are you going to suggest teaching to your son, too? You\u2019re going to send him to a teacher training college, too?\u201d

Jiyoung grew up being told to be cautious, to dress conservatively, to be \u2018ladylike\u2019. That it\u2019s your job to avoid dangerous places, times of day and people. It\u2019s your fault for not noticing and not avoiding.
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~~WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE~~<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThis is why we don\u2019t hire women.\u201d She replied, \u201cWomen don\u2019t stay because you make it impossible for us to stay.\u201d

What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The job did not pay well or make a big splash in society, nor did it make something one could see or touch, but it had brought her joy. It afforded her a sense of accomplishment when she completed tasks and climbed the ladder, and gave her a sense of reward knowing she was managing her own life with the money she earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


~~PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH~~<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cBesides, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to get married, or if I\u2019m going to have children. Or maybe I\u2019ll die before I get to do any of that. Why do I have to deny myself something I want right now to prepare for a future that may or may not come?\u201d

Jiyoung said they weren\u2019t planning on having children yet, but the elders were convinced, regardless of Jiyoung\u2019s input, that she couldn\u2019t get pregnant, and proceeded to investigate. She\u2019s too old. \u2026 She\u2019s too skinny. \u2026 Her hands are cold. \u2026 She must have bad circulation. \u2026 The zit on her chin is a sign of an unhealthy uterus. \u2026 They concluded the problem was her.

When she announced her pregnancy at work, one of her male colleagues exclaimed, \u201cLucky you! You get to come to work late!\u201d
Lucky me, I get to retch all the time, am unable to eat or shit properly, and I\u2019m always tired, sleepy, and sore all over, Jiyoung wanted to say but held it in.

I\u2019m healthy, I don\u2019t need medicine. Family planning is between me and my husband, not relatives-in-law I\u2019ve never met in my life.

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~~WORKING MOMS & STAY AT HOME MOMS~~<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since she became a full-time housewife, she often noticed that there was a polarised attitude regarding domestic labour. Some demeaned it as \u2018bumming around at home\u2019, while others glorified it as \u2018work that sustains life\u2019, but none tried to calculate its monetary value. Probably because the moment you put a price on something, someone has to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~~OTHERS~~<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Do laws and institutions change values, or do values drive laws and institutions?

Revenue drives a businessman, and you can\u2019t blame someone for wanting maximum output with minimum input. But is it right to prioritize short-term efficiency and balance sheets? Who\u2019ll be the last ones standing in a world with these priorities, and will they be happy?

See this here? This is Seoul. It\u2019s just a dot. A dot. We all of us are living in this tiny, cramped dot. You may not get to see all of it, but I want you to know: it\u2019s a wide world out there.

Even the usually reasonable, sane ones verbally degrade women\u2014even the women they have feelings for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until next time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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