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China's 'masculinity crisis', the boys are not all right
https://www.businesstimes.com ^ | FEB 05, 2021 | The Business Times

Posted on 02/08/2021 2:21:51 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

The broadcaster also offered a loose interpretation of yang, writing, "Men show 'the spirit of yang' in bearing, spirit and physique, which is a kind of beauty, but 'the spirit of yang' does not simply mean 'masculine behaviour.'

" In recent years, as the country has sought to bolster its military and reckon with pampered children, mostly boys, born under its one-child policy, a more stringent idea of masculinity has emerged.

Television censors have blurred the pierced ears of male pop stars. Well-groomed actors have been publicly derided as "little fresh meat," and parents have enrolled boys in boot camps, hoping they will become "real men."

The Education Ministry's plan is in response to a proposal made in May by Si Zefu, a top delegate of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee. Called a "Proposal to Prevent the Feminisation of Male Youths," Mr Si's proposal said that "many, many more" men should be hired as physical education teachers to exert a "masculine influence" in schools.

In a statement, Mr Si said the prevalence of female teachers in kindergartens and elementary schools and the popularity of "pretty boys" in pop culture had made boys "weak, inferior and timid." He also lamented that boys no longer wanted to become war heroes, warning that such a trend could endanger the Chinese people.

(Excerpt) Read more at businesstimes.com.sg ...


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1 posted on 02/08/2021 2:21:51 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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Wonder if new born boys in ChiCom land got some special shots to minimize their male hormones, about 2-3 decades ago.

Maybe those shots were too effective.


2 posted on 02/08/2021 2:26:06 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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>>Wonder if new born boys in ChiCom land got some special shots to minimize their male hormones, about 2-3 decades ago.

Maybe those shots were too effective.<<

They were clearly largely introduced to American male children of liberals.

This is the most unmasculine American generation ever.

Clearly.


3 posted on 02/08/2021 2:27:35 PM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Future wars to be fought online in Call of Duty.


4 posted on 02/08/2021 2:29:30 PM PST by EEGator
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To: freedumb2003; NobleFree
This is the most unmasculine American generation ever.

...AND the American generation most exposed to marijuana...

5 posted on 02/08/2021 2:32:39 PM PST by Does so ( “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in history.")
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To: RomanSoldier19

He also lamented that boys no longer wanted to become war heroes...

The fact that most war heroes are DEAD doesn’t seem to
have penetrated his thoughts.
The fact that those children likely had relatives that
died during the cultural revolution or great leap forward
shouldn’t effect them being good Maoists...


6 posted on 02/08/2021 2:33:28 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

When hand-shaking was allowed, Asian men (those from Asia, not American born) shook you hand like a women.


7 posted on 02/08/2021 2:33:49 PM PST by Signalman
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8 posted on 02/08/2021 2:35:59 PM PST by IWontSubmit
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To: RomanSoldier19

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they’re cute and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.


9 posted on 02/08/2021 2:36:51 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Does so

I grew up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s...... My High School teachers sat on the hood of their cars in the teachers’ parking lot and smoked weed between classes.....

The culture was pot smoking then..... Way less now...


10 posted on 02/08/2021 2:39:58 PM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Signalman

Haven’t been to china but Taiwan boys are the same. I think it is from their high soy diets. and lack of exercise.


11 posted on 02/08/2021 2:47:06 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: IWontSubmit

The guy in front- what’s he holding onto, a dildo?


12 posted on 02/08/2021 2:49:57 PM PST by matthew fuller (Corn Pop needs popping.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Meanwhile, in the country formerly know as America, parents are enrolling boys in boot camps, hoping they will become “soy boys.”


13 posted on 02/08/2021 2:52:29 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nevergore

Somewhat different in the 50s re smoking. We gave our 5th grade teacher a carton of cigarettes for Christmas. She was most appreciative. “My favorite brand!”


14 posted on 02/08/2021 2:52:46 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: EEGator

Or in World of Tanks/Ships/Planes


15 posted on 02/08/2021 2:53:28 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: IWontSubmit

I want to beat the shit out of all of them.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 2:57:47 PM PST by EEGator
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To: RomanSoldier19

They got what they ordered, a generation of weak tits...


17 posted on 02/08/2021 2:57:48 PM PST by W. (And now, more beer, and Les Nessman!)
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To: IWontSubmit

Eww, that’s disgusting.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 2:58:01 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (‘You can drive out Nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back.’ – Horace)
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To: nevergore

Grew up in same era but that must have been a different type of high school than mine. The algebra teacher was a Korea Vet and everyone was scared of him. Used to show pictures from the war front that he had taken himself. A whole lot of bodies frozen in the cold.

The female teachers could have given the Catholic mother superior from “The Blues Brothers” nightmares. They were all friends with the male shop teachers and would call them in if the youth got too rowdy.

And then there were the two former Green Beret sgts who ran the JROTC.

I personally do not remember anybody fun in my high school.


19 posted on 02/08/2021 2:58:32 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

miitary fairy Monty Python

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs3gmewuhI

(sorry, I don’t know how to post video directly)


20 posted on 02/08/2021 2:59:24 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (‘You can drive out Nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back.’ – Horace)
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