Pupils now possess the opportunity to watch Thelma and Louise and discuss language based-gender bias during their lunch wreck as part of the new society,founded by two 17-year-old students A year ago, Lauren Gao was watching the Chinese New Year Gala TV indicate when she felt perturbed by the portrayal of two types of women in one of the sketches. It depicted a nuhanzi and a nushen – labels that had become popular in 2014. The former describes a “manly woman”, and was depicted on the indicate as a stubby woman approaching her 30s,single and derided by peers around her; the latter a “goddess” – shown as young, slender, and glamorous and worshipped.
The representations of the two female characters made then 16-year-old Gao,a sixth-form student from Beijing, acutely aware of her own attitudes. But the truth is that the sketch did reflect some commonly held perceptions of “strong” women in China. The term nuhanzi is often used to refer to women exhibiting “manly traits; such women are sometimes considered unattractive and even repulsive within Chinese culture. Nuhanzi characteristics can range from being too independently minded to being too highly accomplished, or neither of which are particularly favourable within traditional Chinese notions of femininity that dictate gentility and even fragility in women.
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Source: theguardian.com