What would you think if some random boomer official started complaining about the feminization of boys and whining about how there have to be programs to toughen them up?
What do you think all that talk about masculinity is about? How does the school cultivate someone's masculinity and why do you think that's a good/healthy thing? No one cares about the "health" part, the issue is the masculinity thing, which is 100% a boomer response to the little fresh meats thing.
By this you mean one very brief, disconnected reference to ‘the cultivation of students “masculinity”’?
Do you think this whole story is just about this one report? This controversy is pretty old, it's been here again too.
Some people in the Party obviously do have issues with 小鲜肉 or whatever, but the MoE, in this report at least, aren’t entertaining them in the slightest.
Let's say you're correct about this. How acceptable do you think responding to a weird sexist rant by "yeah you make some good points about health and reinforcing masculinity" is exactly?
why are we even discussing it
Because someone brought it up. And I guess because some people seem to suddenly be 100% cool with it for some reason.
It doesn't matter to me if someone in China has a bad take on an issue, although it kinda does matter when it is the MoE of a country with billions of people. What matters more to me is the people who seem to agree with it.
The proposal came from the NPC, the MoE received the proposal and issued a response that talks exclusively about physical and health education, as well as the impact of celebrities on adolescent mental health.
The best interpretation I can make of this is that boomers in the NPC made a proposal which is problematic, and the MoE will not implement it and instead use it as an excuse to implement health programs.
Of course, it's problematic that this is an issue of contention, but there is no indication these kinds of reforms will have actual implementation, and the MoE's deflection is evidence otherwise.
But certainly, there is problematic discourse among old politicians in China.
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Does the connection between physically fit and healthy with masculinity not raise any alarm bells?
No?
Can people stop thinking patriarchy is apparently only a thing in America?
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Then why are people confused about this?
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What would you think if some random boomer official started complaining about the feminization of boys and whining about how there have to be programs to toughen them up?
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What do you think all that talk about masculinity is about? How does the school cultivate someone's masculinity and why do you think that's a good/healthy thing? No one cares about the "health" part, the issue is the masculinity thing, which is 100% a boomer response to the little fresh meats thing.
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Do you think this whole story is just about this one report? This controversy is pretty old, it's been here again too.
Let's say you're correct about this. How acceptable do you think responding to a weird sexist rant by "yeah you make some good points about health and reinforcing masculinity" is exactly?
Because someone brought it up. And I guess because some people seem to suddenly be 100% cool with it for some reason.
It doesn't matter to me if someone in China has a bad take on an issue, although it kinda does matter when it is the MoE of a country with billions of people. What matters more to me is the people who seem to agree with it.
The proposal came from the NPC, the MoE received the proposal and issued a response that talks exclusively about physical and health education, as well as the impact of celebrities on adolescent mental health.
The best interpretation I can make of this is that boomers in the NPC made a proposal which is problematic, and the MoE will not implement it and instead use it as an excuse to implement health programs.
Of course, it's problematic that this is an issue of contention, but there is no indication these kinds of reforms will have actual implementation, and the MoE's deflection is evidence otherwise.
But certainly, there is problematic discourse among old politicians in China.
Yeah that's what I also think has happened.
I would say that the mistake is precisely in equating health and fitness with masculinity. They are neither the same nor opposites.
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