#4304. Empathy as exoneration or resistance? The politics of male empathy in the Chinese #Metoo movement

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Chinese digital feminism has attracted increasing public and scholarly attention, and yet men’s participation remains understudied. Drawing on interviews with male supporters and textual analysis of online archives, this paper examines how men empathize with women’s experiences and interact with the broader context of Chinese digital feminism. To map out male empathy, the article proposes a two-dimensional framework that differentiates emotional and cognitive empathy on the one hand and draws from Megan Boler’s view on passive and transformative empathy on the other. The political implications of male empathy in digital feminism are discussed. The author argues that although male empathy displays unarguable potentials to subvert patriarchal society, it also succumbs to the pitfall of exonerating men from the obligation to change, hence obscuring structural gender inequalities.
Keywords:
#Metoo; connective actions; digital feminism; empathy; masculinities

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