Chinese MeToo evades censorship with emoji🍚🐇
When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu” https://www.wired.com/story/china-feminism-emoji-censorship/ Edit: several commenters have said that the above article is probably BS. Most likely propaganda for western viewers. Check this instead with regards to metoo in China: https://www.whatsonweibo.com/no-cookie-cutter-metoo-approach-an-overview-of-chinas-me-too-movement/ #MeTooinChina is mostly a phenomenon in universities. It's similarly used to call out sexual harassment. The overall cultural context is going to be extremely different, but at is heart it's still women fighting for better treatment.
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its political correct to report negative news on china..
People use emoji just for fun🙃
Every news on China is fake news. Western people have such a warped view of the nation and I can't blame them given the media they are fed.
Do you speak Chinese? Can anyone who speaks Chinese confirm or deny any of this... ☺
Already 3 Chinese in this thread checked Weibo and it is fake news. The #MeToo# tag is still trending and you can check it by yourself https://m.weibo.cn/k/MeToo?from=feed I didn't check the feminist page, but if the title is totally fake, I can hardly trust anything in the content..
Fake news, metoo is trending in weibo
Ok, thanks for the fact checks. Me too has affected China, but not in the way the wired article would have you believe. if this was snopes, that wired article would be rated as "mostly false". It appears that rice bunny was *temporarily* used. "From January 17 to February 17, the hashtag #MeTooInChina gets temporarily blocked on Weibo. In response to this, Weibo users launch the alternative hashtag #mitu, written as #米兔, which literally means ‘rice bunny’, but sounds like the English #metoo, and the hashtag #MiTuinChina (#米兔在中国#)." (Quoted from the site listed below) Can any Chinese speakers comment on the following article, and whether it's true: https://www.whatsonweibo.com/no-cookie-cutter-metoo-approach-an-overview-of-chinas-me-too-movement/ It has Chinese sites as sources for its info, so it'll be pretty sad if that one's bunk too lol
i don’t have time to read long article. All I can say is me too is still hottest topic till today. From January I kept seeing posts on this topic. Doesn't seems like it was banned . As a result of this metoo movement, many professors are punished due to sexual harassment.
So clever 👏
Then Rice Bunny will be banned
Then rice will be used - rice cannot be banned ;)