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Therefore, there is a witch hunt for bisexual men in China
I wrote a report on male roles above all else and how they are being softened more and more among young Chinese, and on the reaction of the Communist Party to this. What made you take up this topic?
– I thought it was an interesting topic. There was a kind of discord there, between the youth movement and the old, who, after all, rule the Communist Party. They somehow went in different directions, and I thought it was interesting to investigate more closely, says Marianne Björklund to Studio DN.
In your work, you meet, among other things, the influencer Xiao Xiao, one of those young people who are challenging traditional gender roles. what did he tell you?
– He talks about his belief that the boundaries between men and women will disappear, that we will see unisex fashion, that girls can wear boys’ clothes and boys can wear girls’ clothes. He himself is very interested in clothes. He says he buys a dress every day, can live without it and eat, but not without it and buy clothes. He’s incredibly concerned with his looks, but he has slightly different styles depending on what he’s going to do. After all, he works with social media and records videos for his followers. When I was at his house, he made at least three changes of clothes for different recordings.
In the episode, you’ll also hear about how the Communist Party cracked down on transgender expressions, and what they consider to be the reasons behind their hunt for witches.
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Therefore, there is a witch hunt for bisexual men in China
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