Chinese President Xi Jinping has banned effeminate men from national television, instructing broadcasters to focus on promoting the “revolutionary culture” of the communist government.
The AP reports that Jinping issued a program of “national rejuvenation” which will include increased state “control of business, education, culture and religion.” The program will also include a ban on certain online games and a curbing of celebrity culture.
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The National Radio and TV Administration issued further details about that reduction of celebrity culture, saying the nation must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics.” The language used in the statement included slang for effeminate men: “niang pao,” which literally translates to “girly guns.”
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The edict comes as a partial response to the rise of K-Pop and Japanese celebrities, much of which includes youthful or fashionable men. China’s government believes such men–which it perceives as effeminate–damage the national character.
Programs instead should “vigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.”
Other details of the program include a three-hour limit on online gaming for youth under 18. Students are also prohibited from playing games on school days.
The Chinese government has also targeted celebrities that “violate public order” or have “lost morality.” The AP reports that already Zhao Wei has disappeared from the public eye, with her name expunged from the credits of her films and TV appearances.
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CatholicXXX
China being china.
Max
while here in the USA, “freedom” means going maskless and ability to have guns unregulated; in China, repression of everything contrary to communism, and making dissenters and negative news disappear is the goal of their authoritarianism.
barryaksarben
People have been trying to rid the world of us sissy boys forever and stupidly they still think it possible. We will always be here no matter how horrible you treat us. Just cant fight it.
Hank31
I think it is an achievable goal. Humankind tried for a long time to fly and for centuries, it failed. But eventually, in the early 20th century, it succeeded. With an increasing understanding of genetics, brain development, endocrinology, and disordered psychology, we will eventually succeed in solving this problem. Perhaps it will be the Chinese scientific community which heralds the breakthrough. Until that time comes, societies can at least contain the problem and prevent for-profit media companies from normalizing it.
Openminded
Hank, If I understand your comment correctly, you are calling being gay a “problem”.
Unfortunately, I fear you may be correct in your predictions. I don’t doubt that somewhere, somebody is working to genetically modify same sex attraction as well as other characteristics out of our DNA.
Hank31
@Openminded This story is about effeminacy, and both the original comment above and my response are about effeminacy. Not homosexuality.
You really need to look carefully at yourself and interrogate why you read a story and comments about effeminacy and immediately think that it’s about gayness. Hopefully, you will learn something about yourself and internalized homophobia. Good luck!
James
China and the loser government no one wants but can’t get rid of without going to prison.
GlobeTrotter
Xi Jinping has caught on to the decadence of Western culture and has clearly decided that China should be spared a similar fate. The problem however, is that you can’t regulate culture and expect to have a flourishing civilization – god knows we’ve tried that several times here in the West and have failed miserably. The more you try to regulate culture, the more stifled your people become, which limits their innovative creativity, which anyone can guess, has a negative effect on science and technology, and in consequence the living standards of your country.
The real question that needs to be answered is, are free societies destined to become decadent societies? The example of the Roman Empire doesn’t portend well for our future…
montero552
good
Erik
Pretty good delusions there, trotter.
The Roman empire was not decadent when it fell. It was extremely military, extremely rigid, and pseudo-Christian.
Creamsicle
You really can’t regulate culture. Especially not with such blunt tools as deciding who does and doesn’t appear on television. All this will do is push that part of youth culture to the fringes or onto the Internet. People do what they want, especially the youth. Youth culture always bucks against the expectations coming from staunch power structures. It is normal for young people to want to rebel against something. Teenage rebellion is a healthy part of development and critical in the development of the individual into a functioning adult, capable of independent thought.
Anyone trying to fight against an entire generation of young people doing what our brains instinctively do as part of a critical stage in the development of the pysche is fighting a losing war. Punish, deprive, and repress all you like. It just makes a more creative rebel.
Openminded
Creamsicle, you are correct, however, you fail to realize China already restricts internet content access. They probably see less LGBT activities on TV and internet than anywhere else in the world.
Fahd
With the Chinese seemingly taking all the fun out of consumer culture, I’m sure their younger, softer generation will find a way to avoid the restrictions. The North American and West European countries better start bracing themselves for a lot of Chinese “tourists”, “students” and “business people” who have a little money in the bank (outside China) and who decide to remain abroad.
The quality-of-life nightmare that is Modern China seems to start with a capitalist class system supported by wage-slave concentration camp labor at the bottom. Add to that rabid consumerism, and ideological oppression (let’s call it socialism). And with 1.5 billion people, they’re also buying up the world’s natural resources while building up their military.
Seems like something has got to give here – I hope the next Chinese revolution is led by homosexuals.
Jessie Nice
Any country that imposes monolithic values will quickly revolutionize a nation of imprisoned citizens, however with that being said. I value some of the amazing laws that Xi and the CCP mandate. Xi is one of the worlds greatest leaders and the US should follow suit. We currently have a weak and pathetic President with severely deteriorating Alzheimer’s and dementia. We need a powerful and strong minded leader like Donald Trump who is willing to stand up to the corrupt entities that deal any business with the Chinese. The Chinese are filthy rats that have imbedded itself to our precious American values that are progressively turning into ordinary American citizens into weak submissive shadow puppets to do their dirty work. We as a nation can no longer stand idle as American companies bend to the will of the disgusting CCP. America has been for several years now been Chinas bitch who will happily accept and buy cheap, disgusting Chinese goods and services while at the same time will protest, protect and demand an end to capitalism. The only way America can progress and save itself from being China’s bitch is if we elect Strong minded Republican leaders who will always put America and America first policies!
winemaker
Thank you for telling it like it really is about red china.
Consider This
Xi looks like the roly-poly type. Would you do him?
Wayne_in_NYC
Oh heaven help us! We have a self loathing Log Cabin Repugnican on here glamorizing President Cheetos, the treasonous twice impeached worst president in history! How anyone can still support that buffoon is beyond comprehension! He can’t run the country from his prison cell!
Kangol2
I won’t even get into your deluded rant about Don the Con, who gave away the store to China during his four disastrous years in office, but you really should think twice about using hateful slurs about an entire nation of people. Your comment traffics in centuries’-old racist tropes and is absolutely disgusting.
Observant
Read critically, folks. The above commenter isn’t proficient in either English or American English. Don’t waste time or energy replying to a troll (likely Russian) whose sole intent is to sow discord, distrust, and animosity.
Let’s not repeat 2016.
Den
First of all, posting (among other idiotic statements) “pathetic President with severely deteriorating Alzheimer’s and dementia.” indicates strongly that the one with neurological issues is you. Secondly, as China is a communist dictatorship, your support for that kind of leadership (and Donald Trump is an authoritarian with no understanding of our history or governmental structure), you indicate that you are a hater of the USA, its history and philosophical basis.
But supposing for a second or two that there is some connection to reality in your post, please indicate how Biden is weak, given his record so far in terms of getting vaccination out (Trump failed at that), starting to reestablish the ties to our allies that Trump trashed, reviving respect for and trust in the US by world leaders (who rightfully laughed at Trump both to his face and behind his back). Also please indicate what Trump did other than indulge the corruption of the corporate world more than any previous president, as well as try and set the scene for environmental degradation and a more impoverished population.
jonasalden
Where did you learn to write? Proofread!
cuteguy
With all due respect, when have Chinese men been considered butch? Not to belittle Chinese men, but this m0ron dictator is as delusional as Trump was
KiraNerysRules
You are working overtime to make sure people know you’re ignorant, right? Have you not seen any Chinese male sports? Have you not seen Chinese men build things with their hands? Have you not seen Chinese fathers caring for their families? Stop reinforcing stereotypes just because you’re too lazy to Google and too ethnocentric to care.
BoomerMyles
Chinese men are NOT the bastion of butchness.
Mr. Stadnick
Change a few names and that seems to be pretty close to what the radical right of the GOP are trying to do in this country. The American Taliban is rising to overthrow the government. They have attempted it once already get ready for a theocracy it is right around the corner.
respectfullycommenting
Pardon but your comment is preposterous. If there is a ‘theocracy’ on the march to control thought it is the so-called ‘progressive’ left’. Similarly in the early decades of the 20th century ‘Progressive Dems’ (it was actually known, by historians, as ‘the Progressive Era’) used fake science (eugenics ideology), propaganda, and unethical, corrupt legal/political tactics to manage the economy and society to their advantage. Those who disagreed were suspect and easily categorized as ‘inferior’ intellectually and genetically. In many states those who were categorized – and proved under the corrupt laws – to be ‘inferior’ morally, could be forced out of their communities, and coerced to be sterilized. In the US many thousands were sterilized. So, when you speak of corrupt ideological theocracies you must include 20th century ‘Progressive Democrats’. And oh, btw, in the American South, in that era, it was the Dems who controlled and enforced the ‘theocratic ideological state’ under so-called ‘Jim Crow’ laws. You may have heard of ‘Jim Crow’. That was ALL on ‘Progressive Dems’.
Kangol2
@respectfullymiscommenting, this is the second or third time you’ve posted your ahistorical babble, so a quick correct/history lesson for you. First of all, the Progressive movement began at the local level, often with the Republican Party, not the Democratic Party. The Progressive Era began roughly in 1896 and ended in 1932 with Great Depression (which occurred under an inept Republican president, Herbert Hoover).
The first and most important leading national political figure in the Progressive movement was Teddy Roosevelt, who was many things but not a Democrat. You may be confusing him with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his cousin, who was a Democratic (and one of the greatest American presidents), but whose tenure in office followed the end of the Progressive era. Others notable Progressive politicians included Republicans Robert LaFollette (of Wisconsin), and Charles Evans Hughes (NY’s governor and later a Supreme Court Justice), and Democrats William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson (President first of Princeton and then the US).
You write: Similarly in the early decades of the 20th century ‘Progressive Dems’ (it was actually known, by historians, as ‘the Progressive Era’) used fake science (eugenics ideology), propaganda, and unethical, corrupt legal/political tactics to manage the economy and society to their advantage. Those who disagreed were suspect and easily categorized as ‘inferior’ intellectually and genetically.
This is not only historically false but it’s an incoherent jumble of words masquerading as understanding the complexity of US history, Progressivism, and the facts in general. Rather than coming on Queerty to spew this incoherence, which you may have picked up from Breitbart or some other right-wing site or FoxNews, please, go get a history book and read up on Progressivism.
One last point: you also seem to be conflating, wrongly, Progressivism across the US with the Jim Crow South Dixiecrats, who were Democrats. They were many things but social and political Progressives, or theocrats for that matter they weren’t. You clearly have no clue about what “Progressivism,” “progressive” or “theocracy” mean, but you might spend a few minutes looking each word up. Those White supremacist Dixiecrat Democrats, who increasingly and then completely shifted to the Republican Party after the passage of the US Civil rights bills of the 1960s (you know about those, correct? Or no?), were not Progressives or theocrats. Racists, White supremacists, in some cases eugenicists, etc. yes. But Progressives–on race or most other social issues–or theocrats, no.
barkomatic
Many Western content creators, including those in the US already avoid portraying China in a negative way so that they can market their movies there for the revenue that the huge Chinese market brings. How long before China’s new restrictions start to affect our programming then? My guess is we’ll be seeing far fewer gay characters in major releases. Not that there were a ton before.
BoomerMyles
Didn’t John Cena have to prostate himself in apologies because he called Taiwan a country. They are radical lunatics.
Observant
@BMyles
I’m kinda torn between savoring the mental image of John Cena “prostating” himself and clueing you in on the difference between “prostate” and “prostrate.” Still torn . . . .
winemaker
Why are we still dealing with these worthless no good subhuman bastards who’s goal is to destroy freedom all over the world? God bless America!
Kangol2
“Subhuman”? Are you out of your mind? What is wrong with you?
PerhapsYesNoMaybe
The LGBT community should decide on whether to preserve the Chinese government or purge it. No real reason to preserve it when it violates the human rights of so many people.
Heywood Jablowme
It’s up to us? You make it sound so simple!
jsthib
I hope this means Xi will no longer appear on tv.
ScottOnEarth
Sounds like someone is bitter about not nailing that BTS audition.
BoomerMyles
Winnie the Pooh Jinping would ban his buddy Piglet?
This is bordering on some Mao Cultural Revolution shit.
Hussain-TheCanadian
There is a beautifully done Chinese gay drama called “Addicted”, you can watch it on YouTube. It showed two “traditionally masculine” men falling in love.
The series was so popular that the Chinese government took it off the air and threatened the production company and actors from doing a season 2.
It was then that I knew, this was a test run. It seems the totalitarian government that helms Beijing has finally gone all the way in not only banning gay media, but also anyone suspected of being gay from the air.
My biggest fear is what comes next, concentration camps?
respectfullycommenting
Apologies for reminding you but China is already putting millions of Muslim Uighurs in ‘camps’ for forced labor, forced sterilization, forced medical experiements, etc.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Its horrendous what they’re doing to their Muslim population; they did exactly the same thing to the Tibetans decades ago.
The CCP and the small men who run it won’t stop with religious or ethnic groups, they have gay people in their scope and they won’t hesitate to put us in cages next.
This is why I boycott Chinese products and services.
Jack Meoff
Why didn’t Trump blow up China while he had the chance? It’s the one thing he could have done that I’d agree with.
Kangol2
Don the Con had a secret bank account there, remember? He didn’t do anything that didn’t end up making China stronger instead of weaker! His trade policies, release of the Talban fighters, calls to remove troops from Japan, etc. were all strategically in China’s favor. He was a complete disaster!
respectfullycommenting
Every last one of you who has a job that depends on China ought to be finding a new job. There are – in most places – plenty open at this time. Better yet, ya’ll stop paying thousands a year, and wasting hundreds of hours a year, on porn activities and invest in American manufacturing to bring jobs back from China.
Kangol2
You should also direct your comments to the Wall Street goons and their enablers in Congress and state houses, who get insanely rich by pushing US companies to merge and offshore factories, workers, etc. to raise share prices and make the already rich even richer, and to private equity goons who snap up US corporations, including many manufacturing companies, drain them of funds and leverage them to death through loans, etc., destroying them and countless jobs and communities!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Exactly what Kangol said!
winemaker
Why is the USA still kissing china’s ass? Really why are we, the greatest and strongest country still dealing with this worthless filth? And after almost 2 years of coronavirus, why hasn’t the world court brought up charges against china? These disgusting anti world freedom bastards have proven time and again they can’t be trusted so why are still dealing with them and giving them preferred trade concessions. there was a time not so long ago that dealing with a communist country and buying goods made in communist countries was un American. Time to deal with these bastards with an iron hand like it was done years ago. BTW: All of the worlds pandemics from bubonic plague in the 5th century up to covid 19 originated in china, the worlds largest prison camp, sewer and plain old S**THOLE
Openminded
Because, while we were busy becoming lazy and hording up worthless crap because our neighbors had the same worthless crap, China was busy buying up many of the copper and zinc mines around the world and almost ALL the rare earth mineral mines on earth. Rare earth minerals are necessary to manufacture computer chips. When you got all the REM in the world, you make all the chips in the world. When you got all the computer chips in the world, you got arrogant countries like America by the balls. We thought we were subbing out all our slave work to China since that kind of work is beneath us Americans. Sadly, we weren’t paying attention to what they were doing with their profits until it was too late. You can call China worthless if you want, truth is, China has the world by the nuts. All the free labor they want and exclusive rights to almost all the essential materials required to manufacture products with.
plazaro1
China has to have one of the biggest closeted Gay communities’ in the universe,
Hank31
While I don’t support government control of TV content, if such control already exists, then it makes good sense to remove male effeminacy from the airwaves. Male effeminacy offers no benefit to society and is repugnant to nearly all boys and men. I wish that American TV networks would voluntarily remove male effeminacy from programming.
This is not “homophobia” because gay is not a synonym for effeminate. While it is sadly true that effeminacy is more prevalent among non-heterosexual males, most gay and bi males are not effeminate and most effeminate males are not gay or bi. (According to CDC statistics, more than 3/4 of “very feminine” male teenage high school students are heterosexual, and about 70% of boys exhibiting less severe forms of femininity are heterosexual.) Indeed, this decree by China is a reaction to BTS, whose effeminate members are nearly all, if not all, straight.
inbama
Get help.
rickywintour
Hank please kick the bucket soon. But before that how about letting the Chinese hang you up and have their way with you. Since you like sucking them up so bad. You serve no purpose to society then being a basic tired old troll.
Hank31
@rickywintour lol. You seem totally sane. Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m fairly young and I plan to be around for another 50 or 60 years. Cope!
nm4047
Maybe the Chinese govt thinks they can stop or control what chinese nationals watch, they clearly don’t have a full grasp on the situation. Millions of chinese nationals already circumvent the rules imposed via a VPN. Much the same as the bulk of chinese students studying internationally, open a vpn so they can then open a facebook account or search using (non chinese) google.
bachy
So-called “masculinity” in women – and “femininity” in men – serves an evolutionary purpose and must NOT be artificially removed from the gene pool. Bigotry and myopia must NOT be what determines the genetic future of the human race.