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Datshiane Navanayagam discusses the impact of toxic masculinity in South Africa and South Korea. The United Nations has raised concern about online communities promoting misogynistic and anti-feminist views saying they鈥檙e a serious threat to gender equality.听
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Kutlwano Mokgwathi is a doctoral researcher from Botswana, studying at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa - a听country with some of the world's highest levels of gender-based violence. Her work is examining the emergence of the 鈥淎fricana Manosphere鈥� 鈥� with a focus on South Africa and Botswana.

Seungsook Moon is Professor of Sociology at Vassar College in New York State. She grew听up in Seoul, and her research includes gender and social change in South Korea. In particular, she focuses on the remaking of masculinities听shaped by neoliberal transformation of economy,听politics, and culture locally and globally. South Korea ranked the highest out of 30 countries for how citizens perceive tension between men and women, according to a study by King鈥檚 College London. But what is driving the country鈥檚 gender-divide and how is misogyny taking shape online?

Produced by Elena Angelides

(Image: (L) Kutlwano Mokgwathi, courtesy Kutlwano Mokgwathi. (R) Seungsook Moon, courtesy Seungsook Moon.)