While Hillary Clinton and her supporters would insist that “the future is female,” this apparently isn’t going to be the case in China (or in Afghanistan). In fact, after unveiling a program earlier this year designed to enhance teen boys’ masculinity, Beijing has announced that broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to [showcasing] sissy men and other abnormal esthetics” on television.
As the South China Morning Post reports:
China’s top media regulator has announced a boycott of what it called “sissy idols”, among other new guidelines, during an ongoing “clean up” of the entertainment industry.
The authorities have been increasingly critical of the trend some refer to as “sissy men”, which include pop idols that wear make-up or who do not conform to “macho” male stereotypes prevalent in traditional Chinese culture. Some in China also see the popularity of such idols, often referred to as “little fresh meat”, as a threat to traditional social values.
The eight-point plan, which calls for “further regulation of arts and entertainment shows and related personnel”, was released by the National Radio and Television Administration on their website on Thursday morning.
Under the section “boycotting being overly entertaining”, the notice stated there needed to be more emphasis on “traditional Chinese culture, revolution culture, socialist culture” and that they will establish a “correct beauty standard”, including boycotting “sissy idols”, vulgar internet celebrities.
The Associated Press provides more detail, writing that President Xi Jinping’s
government also is tightening control over Chinese internet industries.
It has launched anti-monopoly, data security and other enforcement actions at companies including games and social media provider Tencent Holding and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group that the ruling party worries are too big and independent.
Rules that took effect Wednesday limit anyone under 18 to three hours per week of online games and prohibit play on school days.
Game developers already were required to submit new titles for government approval before they could be released. Officials have called on them to add nationalistic themes.
The party also is tightening control over celebrities.
Broadcasters should avoid performers who “violate public order” or have “lost morality,” the regulator said. Programs about the children of celebrities also are banned.
In contrast, on the cutting edge of Western (un)thought is Sweden, which, quite a while ago, officially declared that it has “the first feminist government in the world.” The United States isn’t far behind, either. As American Thinker’s Eric Utter writes, warning about how China’s Yang may trump our Yin:
Our progressives are worried about “toxic masculinity” and are constantly tabulating the number of new genders they claim to have discovered. They are consumed with making sure those men who claim to be women can use women’s bathrooms and locker rooms — and vice-versa. Americans have gradually become feminized and infantilized. We are more worried about “microaggressions” than we are about macro-aggressions such as those perpetrated by China or the Taliban. Too many of our college students run for their “safe spaces” if they hear something with which they don’t agree or that may make them sad or confused…all while exclaiming, “Where are my warm milk and cookies? Where is a furry little puppy? Where’s the Play-Doh?”
Virtually all Democratic politicians — whether male, female, or other — claim to be feminists, in touch with their feelings, empathetic. Yet they just handed an entire nation over to a ruling mob that lops off women’s clitorises and then forces them into sex slavery.
Utter then wrote, “We are simply not a serious — or sane — nation anymore.” Interestingly, this warning comes not just from the “right” but also the “left.” We have become “a silly people,” liberal comedian/commentator Bill Maher lamented in March, addressing our “woke” degradation and how Beijing was “eating our lunch.” The Chinese, he said, “are as serious as a prison fight.”
They surely are serious about their masculinization efforts. In fact, it was announced earlier this year that China had adopted a policy called “Proposal on Preventing the Feminization of Male Adolescents”; it’s designed to cultivate masculinity in teen boys, who a top Chinese political adviser described as now being “delicate, cowardly and effeminate.”
In contrast, again, the Washington Times reported in 2015 that two “years ago, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should not be lowered.”
This is madness. While Christians may say it’s divinely ordained and secularists may call it “sexual dimorphism,” the reality is that men and women are different. These differences correspond to and imply different roles. And just as a machine only functions properly when its various parts are in their proper places doing what they should, civilization only flourishes when the sexes perform their roles as they should (e.g., a man can’t be a mommy or a woman a daddy).
Leftists suppose, however, that androgyny should be embraced and we can switch parts’ places, as if the sexes are perfectly interchangeable, without the machinery of civilization breaking down. It’s a fantasy of the effete and overly indulged.
It doesn’t last too long, though. The feminists used to proclaim that women could do anything men could do and do it better — even in sports. But then some “transgender” individuals entered women’s athletics and achieved victory, thus providing an object lesson in reality and making the feminists cry foul (they then blamed the men’s rights movement!).
As a result of the wider indulging of feminist dogma, however, the object lesson we may get in the future won’t involve just losing some titles and trophies. All “the future is female!” agitation may help ensure is that the future is Chinese.
