HONG KONG: Chris Wong has transformed from a quiet student who used to blush when friends swore into one of the thousands of female frontliners battling police in Hong Kong’s democracy protests. ‘Hong Kong girl’Her motivation is the belief that Beijing is stamping out Hong Kong’s freedoms. Susanne Choi, a gender studies scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has researched female participation in recent Hong Kong protests. “Under the influence of conservative thinking and a misperception that Hong Kong has reached gender equality, many female participants tend to trivialize the inequality in protests,” she added. Police can often be heard calling female protesters “prostitutes,” while activists routinely hurl profanities about officers’ wives and mothers.

Source: Manila Times December 10, 2019 12:11 UTC