Posted on 09/29/2021 9:38:01 AM PDT by doug from upland
WASHINGTON — Macho men are in and effeminate male performers are out as Beijing expands its crackdown on China’s entertainment industry, blaming the rise of unmanly men on U.S. influence in Japan.
Male celebrities, even top moneymakers, are changing their images seemingly overnight now that China’s National Radio and TV Administration and other government agencies have made it clear that men who can be described as “niang pao,” a derogatory term for effeminate men, are no longer suitable role models.
New government controls call for broadcasters to enforce a “correct beauty standard” and to stop booking male celebrities who fail to meet the manly criteria.
Huang Zitao once belonged to the South Korean boy band Exo, which performs in Korean, Mandarin, and Japanese. Now without eye makeup and earrings, the Chinese singer has posted shirtless “gym rat” selfies, showing off his muscles on social media.
And as for heartthrob Wang Yibo? Gone are his bleached blond locks, replaced by black hair.
Jonathan Sullivan, a political science professor and director of China Programs at the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, called the latest development “sad.”
“Personal style was one of the few areas that politics had retreated from, and Chinese young people were free to find individual expression,” he told VOA Mandarin in an email message. “If that freedom is also subject to circumscriptions from the state, I think that is quite a sad development.”
Ma, a Chinese cultural commentator who asked VOA Mandarin to use only his first name for his safety, said the latest campaign aims to ensure China has warriors ready for any future military action.
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The plan is this get the West to gag out and China to man up. Then easy Peasy they walk right in.
The plan is this get the West to FAG out and China to man up. Then easy Peasy they walk right in.
The irony being apparently in private life, Graham was very effeminate.
while American leaders want men more like this: 
and this:
I agree with China. Down with poofters!
Well, someone had to say it
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“The plan is this get the West to FAG out and China to man up. Then easy Peasy they walk right in.”
That reminds me of an old MAD magazine piece from waaaay back.
It was about the Romans becoming softer and fatter and then one day lean and hungry barbarians stormed in and destroyed the Western Empire. The next panel of the piece showed a fat happy American weeble looking thing being charged by a Chinese soldier.
How prescient of them.
How did they know?
The world sees our woke military now because of milley and ilk, and they laugh, and likely think “yeah, what can they do? Throw fairy dust at us and hope we choke?’
Our forefathers who,fought to defend this nation are likely rol.ijg over intheir Graves at what our military has become. Sad that many in our troops are now all pumped up with artificial hormone boosters in a futile effort to keep them from having mental and emotional breakdowns on the battle field
Can you imagine the daily hormone suppressing or boosting pill regimine of the average wokester in the military? They must have to carry an extra back pack to contain all their pills. Do they tell the enemy ‘time out! Its time for our hormone regimine. We will be with you in just a few minutes- no fair fighting us while we are medicating’
He has a penchant for buggery and coke.
I watched this happen in the U.S. back in the 80s when AIDS became a thing. A straight female, I worked in the arts alongside dozens of gay men. Within months of the news getting around about "the gay plague", about 30% of them switched teams—found girlfriends, stopped swishing, and some even got married to women and had children—reinforcing my understanding that "gayness" is neither a hard-and-fast condition people are born with, nor are all the people practicing gayness too wounded emotionally to respond appropriately to a serious enough threat to their lives. "Snap out of it!"
China 13 looks really good.
Whoa! Yes, how did they know?
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