Chapter 15 Chapter 4 Men's clothing is not what you think - fashion is not just for women

In the traditional sense, we always seem to be strengthening some characteristics that distinguish men from women-to be masculine, such as strength, bravery, toughness, grandeur, and so on.It seems that strong and brave muscular men are real men.However, in recent years, a group of feminine niches that have appeared in China are also quite popular, and have even aroused widespread discussion in the society.In particular, the national talent show dominated by "Good Boys" and "Happy Boys" is more representative.Li Yuchun, who used to be in charge of gender-neutral beauty, was also very popular. This year's "Happy Boys" also has a contestant with very feminine characteristics such as "Liu Zhu".These are talent shows for all the people, and to a certain extent, they also represent the imprint of the ideological development of this era.It seems that in this society, men are no longer men, and women are no longer women.The lines between men and women are becoming increasingly blurred.And Europe and the United States also had a similar situation in the 1960s and 1970s, even worse than ours.

This phenomenon has long been discussed in philosophy and modern biology.From Plato to Freud and modern Jung, they all treat bisexuality as a human nature.That is to say, everyone is androgynous in nature.The body is nothing but a shell, only more of one side is expressed and less of the other.As shown in Figure 4-1, a man is born with all the qualities from extremely feminine to extremely masculine, but only some of them will be expressed.So men should be in different positions on this coordinate axis. In this way, it is not difficult to explain that some men are masculine and tough like Schwarzenegger on the screen, some are soft and beautiful like Korean star Lee Junki, and some are enchanting and passionate like Leslie Cheung.This is the true face of men, they are diverse, not just masculine, muscular, brave and other images.

Figure 4-1 On the coordinate axis of men’s gender characteristics, from left to right, men’s gender characteristics change from extremely feminine (men who play female roles in life, such as Liu Zhu) to neutral (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea idols) The image of a male star such as Li Junji), and finally go to the extreme masculinity (the American Hollywood-style hero image of a tough guy with an iron hand).