While America tries to figure out how many bathrooms it needs to accommodate shifting genders, China has decided that men are men.
Among the younger generation of Chinese males are a growing number of individuals who are not particularly masculine and would likely be classified as “effeminate,” but China plans to alter this social issue with new textbooks for elementary school children, the China Daily reports.
The Shanghai Educational Publishing House released the first textbook specifically for male students earlier this month. The book, “Little Man” (xiao xiao nanzihan), teaches sexual physiology, sexual psychology, and what it takes to be a man in the modern world.
Interestingly, the book on manliness was written by a woman, You Rui, a female principal at Zhabei No. 3 Central Primary School. She said that the book is a part of a pilot program on gender education launched at her school.
In addition to teaching male students about masculinity, the book’s six chapters also answer questions like, “Why am I a boy and not a girl?” and, “What do female genitals look like?” The textbook is designed to teach students about gender and gender roles and alter the situation in which young male students are outperformed by female students.
The book reportedly received overwhelmingly positive feedback. A version for female students is already in the works.
The new textbook is not China’s first attempt at reviving domestic manliness. Schools and institutions throughout the country are recruiting male teachers to “salvage masculinity in schools,” reports The New York Times. The concern is that female teachers are raising a generation of timid, selfish, and effeminate males.
The all-male Shanghai No.8 High School was established in 2012 for the same reason, the cultivation of masculinity.
The prevailing theory behind China’s growing masculinity crisis is that doting parents in China’s male-oriented society and the resulting “little emperor syndrome” have created a society filled with young boys clueless about what it means to be a real man.
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