China’s proposal ‘ to prevent the feminization of male adolescents’ is late imperial claptrap

To people elsewhere, it sounds like a bunch of early 20th-century Englishmen in wing collars declaring that 'the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.'

It’s not clear if President-for-Life Xi Jinping took a personal interest in the issue, but his enthusiasm for football as a symbol of national strength and manliness is well known.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 15, 2021

It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon, high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men t...

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