China Gets It

[Ex-California]

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-chi ... vj5vldINF8

To fight K-pop’s influence in China, a club teaches young boys to be alpha males

It is 14 degrees the morning two dozen boys gather at a Beijing park to be transformed into alpha males. A reluctant winter sun casts silver light between treacherously cold shadows. The wind bites, worsening nerves as the boys — the youngest 7 — prepare to strip to their waists for a run.

One of the watching mothers is worried. She wants her son to grow into a macho male, but it’s so cold. She tells him he can keep his shirt on, or perhaps skip the run through Olympic Forest Park.
This is the kind of “feminine” parenting that coach Tang Haiyan fears can ruin boys. Tang, a former schoolteacher, founded the Real Man Training Club to combat what he and others in China see as a masculinity crisis — part of a backlash against the makeup- and earring-wearing male TV, film and pop idols who have gained immense popularity here.
“If you are promoting these effeminate figures,” Tang said, “it’s a calamity for our country.”

In a nation where men dominate political and business leadership and campaigns for gender equality have gained little traction, the debate over what is “effeminate” has become a popular pastime among older conservative residents, and mostly among men.

Influenced by K-pop idols in Korea, China’s boy bands and celebrities — with their delicate beauty, dyed hair and haute couture wardrobes — have a massive following among women here. But China’s state-run media condemns the young idols, calling them “sissy pants" and “fresh young meat.”

The backlash deepened after a back-to-school TV program featured the boy band F4. Angry parents attacked the Education Ministry’s decision to hold up the cosmetics-wearing young men as role models; state media warned that a “sick” and “decadent” culture threatened the future of the nation. This year, a Chinese videostreaming website started blurring earrings worn by men.

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[Smitty-48]

If everybody is an alpha, nobody is an alpha.

[Speaker to Animals]

I would emend the statement to: "foster their development into healthy males".

The alpha male act is just another form of pussy chasing, little different from the beta male act (the nice guy, male ally of the wamyns). Deriving your masculinity from female approval is the underlying poison that must be combated.

There is no such thing as an alpha unless you are a gorilla or something. Hominid alphas would be fucking huge.

[Smitty-48]

Even amongst Chimpanzees, the alpha male is not necessarily the most aggressive, nor the most physically imposing.

[Smitty-48]

When I was growing up, the alpha was just cool.

Steve McQueen.

Niel Armstrong.

Joe Montana.

[Smitty-48]

The only Chinese alpha was Bruce Lee.

Actually a dope smoking beatnik.

[Ex-California]

I would emend the statement to: "foster their development into healthy males".

The alpha male act is just another form of pussy chasing, little different from the beta male act (the nice guy, male ally of the wamyns). Deriving your masculinity from female approval is the underlying poison that must be combated.

There is no such thing as an alpha unless you are a gorilla or something. Hominid alphas would be fucking huge.

You're onto something here. What people consider alphas are what the weak consider "toxic masculinity" or what we consider "healthy males"

But then again, think of pro athletes, would their freakish size and athletic ability be considered a hominid alpha

[Smitty-48]

The ultimate Canadian alpha athlete is Wayne Gretzky.

Small, not much of a physical specimen, not a tough guy at all.

He just took charge, when the Oilers needed to win, Gretzky made it happen.

He was a skinny, gawky looking kid, but all the big dogs followed him without question.