As I begin to write this post, it feels like something canceled on twitter, youtube, and facebook.  No one must think this or this way.  It must not be said or written.  Perhaps a future reeducation camp in store for someone who crosses this boundary.

I was speaking this week to someone from China and the subject of effeminate Chinese men came up. This story made the news at the beginning of September 2021.  You can find articles at major news outlets, such as ABC News and the Washington Post, reporting that as Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), starts a third term, the government cracks down on every sector of society with a “rectification” campaign.  As part of pressure to align with the government’s vision of a powerful China and a healthier society, the CCP has banned effeminate men on television.

Apparently the trend or growth of effeminate men in Chinese society spread across the border of China through South Korea.  South Korean and Japanese singers influenced Chinese pop stars toward unacceptable “niang po,” a Chinese insulting slang for effeminate men, which means “girlie guns.”  The National Radio and TV Administration said that broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics.”

In a positive way, China’s government has ordered its broadcasters to encourage masculinity, a practice just the opposite of that of the United States.  Its government says it wants to put a stop to abnormal beauty standards.  The Washington Post article quotes Rana Mitter, an Oxford professor of modern Chinese and politics as saying:

The party does not feel comfortable with expressions of individualism that are in some ways transgressive to norms that it puts forward.

China does not see a future without two clearly delineated roles between men and women.  Where does China get that idea?  China wants effeminate women and masculine men.

Is there hope for any country that forsakes the God-ordained or natural roles of men and women?  1 Corinthians 11:14 and Romans 1:26-27 read:

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

China sees something abnormal or a transgression of natural norms and stops it.  The United States encourages it and prohibits discouragement.  Listening to a podcast a few weeks ago, Jordan Peterson in an interview seemed to bemoan or mourn the illegality in Canada of conversion therapy.  Not long ago society required masculinity and the fulfillment of the male role in society.  Now it’s bullying to do so.

Churches now cooperate with the perversion of men, ignoring effeminate behavior.  Imagine someone in a church telling a boy to stop acting like a girl.  Churches now exalt soft-spoken, effeminate sounding and acting men, calling their mannerisms the fruit of the Holy Spirit.  Today’s tone police cancels masculine tone.  Churches need their own rectification campaigns.

Will men do anything?  Will the ostensibly godly men of churches do anything?

If the Lord tarries and you live, prepare for world takeover by the Chinese, the country with the last men standing.

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Other articles from What Is Truth on the subject.

Refreshing Honesty from “Desiring God” on Men Acting Effeminate

Noticeable Increase in Effeminate Sounding Men

Ability to Judge, Standard of Judgment, and Judging Effeminate Behavior (and Separating from It)

Act Like Men, Not Like Girls

Beauty, Worldly Lust, Effeminate and Truth in the Real World

No Reason to Fret the Harry Styles Vogue Cover Unless Designed Gender Distinction or a Male and Female Item of Clothing

God Designed Roles, Their Symbolism, and Sodomy