{"id":6247,"date":"2021-10-03T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2021-10-03T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:42:38","slug":"china-bans-men-it-sees-as-not-masculine-enough-from-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6247","title":{"rendered":"China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;China\u2019s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters..to promote \u201crevolutionary culture,\u201d broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Xi Jinping has called for a \u201cnational rejuvenation,\u201d with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party has reduced children&#8217;s access to online games and is trying to discourage what it sees as unhealthy attention to celebrities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadcasters must \u201cresolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics,\u201d the TV regulator said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men \u2014 \u201cniang pao,\u201d or literally, \u201cgirlie guns.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/china-bans-sissy-men-tv-120158071.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/china-bans-sissy-men-tv-120158071.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;China\u2019s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters..to promote \u201crevolutionary culture,\u201d broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping has called for a \u201cnational rejuvenation,\u201d with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society.<\/p>\n<p>The party has reduced children&#8217;s access to online games and is trying to discourage what it sees as unhealthy attention to celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasters must \u201cresolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics,\u201d the TV regulator said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men \u2014 \u201cniang pao,\u201d or literally, \u201cgirlie guns.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,660,136,661],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-dictatorship","tag-media","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}