{"id":1138671,"date":"2021-12-21T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138671"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:19:31","slug":"china-to-ban-pick-up-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-to-ban-pick-up-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Ban Pick-Up Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-to-ban-pick-up-artists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Untitled-5-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i> <span>on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1242977.shtml\">announced<\/a> the communist government will amend its Law on the Protection of Women\u2019s Rights and Interests to \u201cprohibit acts of mind control against women,\u201d including \u201cPUA (pick-up artist) moves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These rather severe amendments were announced as China is still dealing with the fallout from tennis star Peng Shuai <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/23\/china-concern-for-missing-tennis-star-peng-shuai-maliciously-hyped-up\/\"><span>accusing<\/span><\/a><span> former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of raping her a decade ago. The new restrictions against pick-up artistry could be part of China\u2019s propaganda war to spin away the Peng story by touting Beijing\u2019s supposedly tough stance against harassment.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>made a point of mentioning the Law on the Protection of Women\u2019s Rights \u201ccame into force nearly 30 years ago,\u201d and even preemptively castigated \u201cforeign media\u201d likely to claim the new regulations were imposed \u201cafter government suppression of the #MeToo movement.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The details of the latest revision certainly sound like a veiled promise that what allegedly happened to Peng Shuai will not happen again:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><span>According to the draft, sexual harassment against a woman\u2019s will be [sic] prohibited in ways that involve words with sexual connotations or innuendo; inappropriate and unnecessary physical behavior; displays or dissemination of images, text, information, audio or video with obvious sexual significance; or acts that imply that there will be some benefit in developing a private or sexual relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The draft stipulates that women who are victims of sexual harassment can file complaints with relevant units and authorities. These units and authorities shall handle complaints promptly and inform the victims of the results in writing. The female victims may either report the case to a public security organ or file a civil lawsuit with a people\u2019s court.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>After relating lengthy details of the Western-style bans on discrimination against women in hiring and employment \u2013 particularly discrimination against <\/span><span>pregnant <\/span><span>women and prospective mothers, a major concern for a country attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/11\/demographer-chinas-population-may-have-dropped-in-2021\/\">pull out<\/a> of a <\/span><span>demographic death spiral<\/span><span>&nbsp;\u2013 the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>dug into the provisions against \u201cmind control\u201d and \u201cnon-violent acts including brainwashing, manipulation of women, and instigation of female suicide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome local law enforcement authorities have investigated organizations and individuals conducting PUA-related training and online sales courses. In addition, the so-called girls\u2019 morals schools using verbal abuse, and the contemptuous destruction of female dignity to poison women, have emerged in recent years,\u201d the article explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These comments refer to a <\/span><span>scandal<\/span><span> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/29\/business\/china-pickup-artists-PUA.html\">erupted<\/a> in China in 2019 after a woman known as \u201cBao Li\u201d (China\u2019s version of the pseudonym \u201cJane Doe\u201d) attempted to commit suicide and was declared brain-dead. Text messages from her phone revealed she was manipulated and demeaned by a man who wanted to use her for sex \u2013 or, as he put it, \u201cI want you to get pregnant with me, then get an abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bao Li was an undergraduate at Peking University, so the Chinese public was shocked that she could have been broken with such a crude campaign of emotional abuse. Her friends spoke darkly of trained PUAs, a major industry in China that apparently peaked sometime around 2017, with huge pick-up artist websites that boasted millions of members. Some of these PUA groups published training manuals that really did teach how to use brainwashing techniques \u2013 which are not hard to come by in a brutal Communist tyranny \u2013 to dominate women by shattering their self-esteem. There were men who worked as \u201cprofessional PUA\u201d instructors, charging thousands of dollars to teach other men to pick up several women per day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There was never actually any proof that the man who pushed Bao Li to suicide was a graduate of these \u201cPUA schools\u201d or consumer of their materials online, but the Chinese Communist Party launched a major crackdown on PUA after the scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Tuesday announced the communist government will amend its Law on the Protection of Women\u2019s Rights and Interests to \u201cprohibit acts of mind control against women,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1893948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}