A Chinese boot camp is teaching boys how to be “alpha males” in order to combat K-Pop’s “effeminate” influence on them.
Tang Haiyan, a former schoolteacher, founded the Real Man Training Club in response to a perceived “masculinity crisis”. He and others who support his view feel that the delicately handsome male idols who wear makeup, earrings, dyed hair, and ‘feminine’ fashion, are promoting an “effeminate” way of being that is detrimental to Chinese men and to the country. China’s state-run media calls these idols disparaging names such as “sissy pants” and “fresh young meat.”