Logo of Herstory in East AsiaHerstory of East Asia

We want to show "herstory" in East Asia from local perspectives with a timeline and a map in our local languages, so that people from different regions of East Asia can learn more about the stories and rights women and LGBETQ+ have fought for.

Timeline & Map

母豬教

In 2015, a well-known user on Taiwan’s largest Bulletin Board System, PTT, who went by the name “obov” started to comment “you’re a moaning sow” on all posts written by women after being temporarily banned from posting for making this comment on one post written by a woman. This post unexpectedly led many who were fans of obov to jokingly start a group named “sow” and named obov as its founding father. From this time, many Internet users have begun using “sow” as a term to attack women who they think are not behaving properly and also to comment on women and categorise them, which results in a slow but certain consolidation of existing prejudices and misogyny.

2015
|#Online Feminism#Digital Sexual Crime#Hate Crime#Sexual Harassment