What's this about China banning "effeminate" and "sissy" men from media?
What's this about China banning "effeminate" and "sissy" men from media?
Is it true? Is it propaganda? If it's true then Why are they doing this?
Boomer politicians being boomer politicians, from my understanding the younger generations in China are much more socially progressive. It's dumb and bad but it's probably not as bad as western media will make it out to be to distract from how hostile we are to lgbtq people.
younger generations in China are much more socially progressive
Hopefully they can get this fixed
It's true and it's bad. Don't twist yourself into knots trying to defend it, just take the L and move on. The CCP isn't going to collapse because a Western leftist said banning femboys is bad, and making excuses for it is a bad look and often :cringe:
Yeah, I agree, in the end it’s meaningless, you shouldn’t participate in stan culture (ironic, considering) for china, they doing some cringe socially and in foreign policy, plus it doesn’t matter unless your party program is carbon copy every chinese policy
If I remember correctly, the “effeminacy” thing China has been gunning against isn’t about gender expression as much as “idol culture”. I’ll see if I can find the threads I was reading on that from a queer activist in China.
As is typical, the western media happily jumped on trying to use this as a propaganda angle. The thread I was reading had some criticism of other policies because China isn’t a utopia, but it was pretty clear on the intent there.
Edit: Found it. Thread on the topic from our comrades over at r/GenZedong.
….sounds like…cope? I dunno maybe I’m just a dumbass but that argument just seems to go from ‘it’s all lies’ and then triangulates back to ‘it’s pretty much what you think it is.’
China has plenty of its own social issues with queer / LGBTQ+ rights (eg gay marriage still being illegal) and is not always going to line up with our own cultural indicators either.
Understanding the context involved with a policy like this allows us to critique it more clearly than the very generalized take on it we’re seeing from most western press.
Given our media’s vested interest in attacking China from any angle they can, I think it’s healthy to not take these stories at face value when they’re first presented to us.
Our country is trying very hard to manufacture consent for this latest cold war and none of us are immune to propaganda.