China Tackles "Masculinity Crisis"

China is concerned that it is raising too many sissy-boys so has started a program to stop it.

BEIJING — With enormous economic clout and a powerful military and a strongman president, the image that China projects to the outside world is one of strength and confidence.

At home, however, some believe the nation's over-protected young boys are becoming physically and emotionally weak — leaving China facing what is being called a "crisis of masculinity."

Some commentators in China, where gender identity is much less blurred than in Western culture, suggest it could lead to social problems and even imperil the country's national security.

A new school textbook that aims to teach boys how to be "masculine" men has been released. Called "Little Men," the book covers the differences between boys and girls, the importance of the father-son relationship as well as the importance of interacting with nature and managing money.

The colorfully illustrated book was first published in December 2016 by Shanghai Educational Publishing House and has been approved for fourth and fifth grade classes across the country, after a trial period in selected schools.

"This course is necessary for boys," Miao Li, 36, a businessman, told NBC News while waiting to pick up his daughter recently outside a Beijing primary school. "They are so over-protected by the family they don't do physical activities anymore."

"Nowadays, girls are becoming more like boys while the boys are becoming more like girls, introvert and shy," echoed another parent called Huang, a hotel employee.

"The boys are now less masculine than when I was of their age," said a retired worker named Tian, a grandfather to an 8-year-old boy.

Another retiree named Huang, with a 7-year-old grandson, noted that boys are "more fragile emotionally and physically due to too much homework."

The roots of China's masculinity crisis can be traced to a number of areas, one of which is the country's One Child policy, implemented between 1979 and 2015. The policy restricted the number of children families were allowed to have in order to curb the country's surging population growth. It was replaced with a two-child limit last year.

"The problem is that the family spoils the kid with love and care," said a hotel management worker surnamed Sheng, mother of a first-grader, suggesting that over-indulgence and parents' fear of losing their only child has stunted the natural adventurous character of boys.

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Hey China!  Did you not get the message from Western Civilization that "gender is fluid?"  We are all men and we are all women!  It's totally normal for men to desire men and women to desire women.  The ideas of 'masculinity' and 'femininity' are so passé....so yesterday!  Get with the LGBT agenda China!!

Friends, China has some serious problems.  The article points out the problems with China's ONE CHILD POLICY.  Since the gov't only allowed a married couple to have one child....if they had a little girl they would abort it or kill it after it was born by just setting the newborn girl out in the back yard and letting the dogs or exposure kill the child.

So if the couple was fortunate enough to have a healthy boy they would spoil him, pamper him and wrap in in metaphorical bubble wrap because he was so valuable to them.  Climbing trees, jumping creeks, walking on ice, swinging from ropes.....those would all be too dangerous.

So if little boys aren't allowed to do the activities that boys desire.....they will ultimately become wimps who can't climb trees, cant swing from ropes, can't run up a hill....these are all things that a good soldier needs to do.  And China needs to keep building a big army, filled with aggressive, athletic men....NOT girly men.