Luo Dayou choked Xiaoying for "not thinking about the next generation" Green Camp female generals: patriarchal stereotypes and obliterating women's contributions

In response to singer Luo Dayou's comment about former President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President Hsiao Meiqin, and former Supervisor General Chen Ju, "Unlike us who have children, we don't think more about the next generation." DPP Kaohsiung City Council candidate Huang Jingya today (11th) pointed out that these remarks have once again brought to the table a patriarchal stereotype that should have been eliminated long ago in Taiwanese society, and are consistent with the absurd logic of past blue-camp politicians who use women's bellies to measure their ability to govern.

Huang Jingya took stock of the controversial speeches in the blue camp in the past few years and pointed out that such discriminatory remarks against women have never stopped. In 2018, former Director of Health Yang Zhiliang said that Tsai Ing-wen and Chen Ju "have never taken care of children and do not understand the hard work"; in 2019, New Party presidential candidate Yang Shiguang choked Tsai Ing-wen "There is no next generation, and she is not qualified to talk about the next generation." In the same year, the Kuomintang Vice presidential candidate Zhang Shanzheng also echoed the sentiment that "if you have never given birth to a child, you don't know the heart of a parent." In 2023, Yang Zhiliang even cursed legislator Wu Siyao that "it is impossible to give birth to a child when she is almost 50, and she will have no children or grandchildren." Until last month, the Kuomintang Pingtung County Magistrate candidate Su Qingquan still mocked Pingtung County Magistrate Zhou Chunmi, "It is pitiful to have never raised children, and does not understand the hard work of education."

Huang Jingya said that from the speeches of these blue-camp politicians to today's Luo Dayou, they all share the same arrogant logic based on blood, reducing governance ability to biological instinct, and absurdly assuming that only those who have given birth to children are qualified to talk about the future.

As a mother, Huang Jingya bluntly said that of course she understands the hard work of raising children; but as someone who is involved in public affairs, she knows better that what has really taken over countless families in Taiwan is the substantial increase in child care subsidies and the quasi-public policy of childcare during President Tsai Ing-wen's term, as well as the international living space that Vice President Hsiao Meiqin has fought for Taiwan for many years.

Speaking of Chen Ju's frivolous comments, Huang Jingya expressed strong indignation. She said that when the Formosa incident occurred in 1979, Chen Ju risked the death penalty to stand up during the authoritarian martial law era. She was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison and was not released from prison until 1986. She devoted the best years of her youth to Taiwan's democracy and human rights. "A woman suffers political persecution for resisting a dictatorship. Does her contribution to this land lose its value because she is not married and has children?"

Huang Jingya reiterated that it is not only unreasonable to use whether women are married and have children to erase their lifelong dedication to public affairs, but also completely exposes the commentators' narrow-mindedness and ignorance of the value of women's autonomy and the history of Taiwan's democracy.