It's the sort of noise a goose might make if caught in the throes of autoerotic asphyxiation. It's a giddy, high-pitched, strangulated thing that comes out of nowhere and tears a vacuum in the atmosphere. This is apparently how Jason Statham laughs. He actually shrieks, so loudly that I recoil.
As soon as he sees what I'm doing, Jason Statham shrieks. I start to worry about how my face will end up.īut then something weird happens. Or all three at once, during a car chase where everything's on fire.
What you have seen, however, is Jason Statham punching people in the face. For more than a decade, a consistent theme has run through the man's work: You Don't Mess With Jason Statham. And I don't realise what a stupid present it is until it's halfway out of my bag. It's hideous: cheaply made and impossible to annotate, with each month containing a different but equally dreadful paparazzi close-up of his own giant head. It's an unofficial 2013 Jason Statham calendar. "I expect that gender-based violence, harassment, bullying will be very likely to increase.I 've bought Jason Statham a present. "Because if the government condones this kind of behaviour and language, who else can say it is wrong to use it in schools and workplaces? "My concern is young people would think it is fine to use this gender slur to attack others," he said. Potential for increase in discriminationĭr Wang said he was surprised when he saw a gender slur being introduced into government policy. However, his stylist team might still change his image because "there is no clear definition of what 'sissy' behaviour is'", she said.
Ms He said she spent about 10 to 15 per cent of her income on supporting Luo in competitions or buying products that he endorses.Įven though he is the face of several cosmetic brands, Ms He said she did not see him as a "sissy" and so did not think the crackdown would affect him much. "If this becomes the mainstream that most guys follow, the aesthetic would be boring and deformed." "I personally support the regulation of the 'sissy men' culture," Ms He told ABC. He Meiying, a 25-year-old Beijing resident and a fan of idol Luo Yizhou, said she was in favour of the move. Not everyone thinks the government's push is a big deal, or even necessarily bad. He Meiying spends about 10 per cent of her income supporting her favourite idol. Similarly to the crackdown on tutoring companies and tech companies, the attack on "sissy" fashion was a way of diminishing a potential threat to state authority, he said. He said the problem for the Chinese authorities was that their success was coming at the expense of state media, and so eroding the government's influence.
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"We can see a different gender culture has been developed over the past decade, and the young people have showed they are open to challenging traditional gender norms," he said.ĭr Wang said it was important to note that most of the widely acclaimed drama series and talent shows were being produced by non-state owned tech and media companies. Wang Shuaishuai, a lecturer in new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam, said the trend had opened a new space for China's young men to explore different ways to express themselves. What's the 'sissy' crackdown really all about? Global industry research company IBIS World this month reported demand continued to rise with Gen Y the "key consumption group".Īs cosmetic brands hire more male celebrities to endorse their products, the business research firm Mintel forecasts the sector to expand 50 per cent to 18.5 billion RMB (about $3.9 billion) by 2025. Other successful productions, like The Coming One, also by Tencent, and Youth With You by iQiyi, followed.Ĭhina is now the biggest male skincare and cosmetics market in the world. The slogan of show, in a format of which had been imported from South Korea, was "redefine male aesthetics". In Chinese tech giant Tencent's hugely popular talent show Produce Camp, participants competed to be selected for an 11-member boy band, dressing in unisex clothing, wearing makeup and presenting a softer version of masculinity.