China Bans Effeminate Men from TV
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#2A sci-fi future where men were indistinguishable from women was brought up in The Three-Body Problem series.
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#3At this point we can only hope that Nazi China implodes before it enslaves most of the world.
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#4A sci-fi future where men were indistinguishable from women was brought up in The Three-Body Problem series.
Considering how stereotypical Liu Cixin's on-the-ground social views (rather than the human-condition social views) were, I think it's just his reflection of mainstream cultural directions China is going through. And I'd say gender fluid men is much more mainstream than in the west.
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#5At this point we can only hope that Nazi China implodes before it enslaves most of the world.
These are some empty hopes! It's beyond the obvious that America's leadership in defense, science, and technology is doomed. Only Trump was crazy enough to recognize the fact that China's America's biggest rival, and that Democrat's obsession with Russia is taking us nowhere.
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#6The article mentions enforcing morality. I wonder where they get their ideas about morality from. I thought they were "officially" atheist..
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#7The article mentions enforcing morality. I wonder where they get their ideas about morality from. I thought they were "officially" atheist..
The answer is pretty clearly money.
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#8Guess I'm never going to be on Chinese TV then.
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#9I can't help but wonder if this is the point where the unstoppable juggernaut that China seems to be has hit it first stumbling block.
Not only specifically about effeminate men obviously, but it seems to be regressing back to a tighter control of live and business.
In their mind they probably want to reign in the power of businesses and media to bring the ultimate power of life and culture back to the
But just when Chinese cloud providers and services were maybe viable to use, this and similar moves will probably scare Western businesses away. I know it would scare me away.
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#10So masculine women on TV is ok then I suppose.