{"id":717552,"date":"2021-09-04T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=717552"},"modified":"2021-09-04T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T20:50:56","slug":"china-bans-sissy-girlie-men-from-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-bans-sissy-girlie-men-from-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans \u2018Sissy,\u2019 \u2018Girlie\u2019 Men From TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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-bans-sissy-girlie-men-from-tv%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=717552&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\/09\/FDE3E9DC-1E55-4981-A40C-E706E5D55594-scaled-e1630788154383.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On September 3, Amazon released its highly touted remake of \u201cCinderella\u201d featuring Billy Porter in the role of a genderless fairy godmother.<\/p>\n<p>In China, a production like this just became illegal.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the country\u2019s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced Thursday that it has instituted new measures to keep \u201ceffeminate\u201d men off Chinese screens.<\/p>\n<p>Using the term \u201cniang pao\u201d or \u201cgirlie guns\u201d \u2014 a slur for men who exhibit womanly characteristics \u2014 the officials called for \u201cresolutely [putting] an end to sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics\u201d on television. To that end, they introduced an eight-point plan designed to address the kind of entertainment they said is responsible for \u201cseverely polluting the social atmosphere\u201d and wielding a bad influence over China\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key avenues, it appears, regulators are pinpointing for keeping the girlie men off screens is by barring broadcast and TV companies from showing talent competitions and \u201cidol development programs or variety shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kinds of reality programs that find and establish new boy bands and pop singers are especially popular in China, as TV networks there have sought to copy the British and Korean shows to which young Chinese viewers flock. While the announcement didn\u2019t explicitly reference K-Pop bands, whose members tend toward a slight, androgynous aesthetic, the government blaming effeminate reality performers for \u201cfailing to encourage China\u2019s young men to be masculine enough\u201d seems like a direct allusion to groups like BTS and a warning to their Chinese fan base.<\/p>\n<p>The Party also instructed entertainment producers not to cast actors with \u201clapsed morals\u201d and \u201cincorrect political positions.\u201d Finally, they banned reality shows that feature the children of stars, arguing that these promote an \u201cunhealthy\u201d preoccupation with \u201cvulgar internet celebrities,\u201d as well as admiration of wealth and celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the \u201cDon\u2019ts.\u201d On the \u201cDo\u201d side of the ledger, regulators want Chinese programming to \u201cvigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture.\u201d And they called on TV and internet trade associations to offer entertainment that focuses more on training and self-discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s broad effort to realize President Xi Jinping\u2019s plans for \u201cnational rejuvenation\u201d by creating a more \u201cpatriotic atmosphere\u201d for viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, this same aim led to thousands of fan groups getting de-platformed from the social media site Weibo. And only a few days ago, the CCP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/31\/tech\/china-ban-video-games-minor-intl-hnk\/index.html\">announced<\/a> it was tightening restrictions of videogame playing \u2014 which it has called \u201cspiritual opium\u201d \u2014 saying it will now only allow youth to take part in this activity three hours a week.<\/p>\n<p>All of these moves are likely to be sounding alarm bells in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The American movie industry has spent the better part of a decade building bridges to the Chinese market, notoriously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hollywood-has-a-china-problem\">shaping<\/a> productions to pass muster with CCP censors. Those U.S. releases that did make it to the Middle Kingdom faced significant censorship from regulators eager to block the influence of the kind of men they deem \u201cgirlie.\u201d For example, the cinema oversight board removed all scenes that explicitly dealt with Freddie Mercury\u2019s homosexuality from the biopic \u201cBohemian Rhapsody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some years, despite the ire it earned them at home, studio machinations to court China paid off. Big Hollywood blockbusters raked in even bigger earnings thanks to Chinese audiences.<\/p>\n<p>But recently, the tide has begun to turn.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s entertainment industry has been experiencing a boom, and in 2020, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/its-official-china-overtakes-north-america-as-worlds-biggest-box-office-in-2020-4078850\/\">overtook<\/a> the U.S. to officially become the number one movie market in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Flush with this newfound dominance, the CCP has suddenly started reducing the number of American films it allows to play on Chinese screens \u2014 going from 22 titles at this time last year to just 13 titles in 2021 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators\u2019 new commitments to patriotic values that have no place for less-masculine men may not prove a problem for Marvel\u2019s past catalogue of Iron Man and Thor movies, which played very well in the Middle Kingdom. But it could pose a problem for Marvel chief Kevin Feige\u2019s commitment to LGBT representation going forward. Already, <a href=\"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/movies\/kevin-feige-reportedly-clashing-with-disney-over-lgbt-themes-in-the-mcu\/\">rumors<\/a> are swirling that Feige is facing off with Disney executives over their desire to make films China will show and his promise to entertainment media that future MCU films will be more \u201cinclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s \u201cgirlie men\u201d ban demonstrates how quickly the issue is coming to a head.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time China has officially addressed the concern. Since 2015, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has prohibited any television show and film from depicting \u201cunnormal sexual relationships\u201d like homosexuality. And three years ago, the CCP\u2019s official news agency Xinhua <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2018-09\/06\/c_1123391309.htm\">denounced<\/a> the \u201cbad social consequences\u201d of effeminate male celebrities, saying that to \u201ccultivate a new generation that will shoulder the responsibility of national rejuvenation, we need to resist erosion from indecent culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unspoken concern that may underlie these attempts at culture control is the falling birthrate that many older generations in China blame on a lack of traditional masculine values among young men.<\/p>\n<p>That culture, and a culture where studios invite LGBT activist groups like GLAAD to consult on scripts in order to ensure gay, lesbian, and trans characters are present in acceptable numbers can\u2019t easily co-exist. The Chinese government\u2019s latest moves will make it that much harder for the kind of entertainment that wins applause in the U.S. to pass muster with CCP censors.<\/p>\n<p>If China isn\u2019t willing to let its own productions put effeminate men on its screens, it\u2019s highly unlikely that it will continue welcoming Hollywood in to do it for them \u2014 especially now that the Chinese box office has become the biggest game in town.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, Amazon released its highly touted remake of \u201cCinderella\u201d featuring Billy Porter in the role of a genderless fairy godmother.In China, a production like this just became illegal.That\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893802,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","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-717552","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\/717552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}