Imagine a television show with 400 million viewers getting the axe? That is exactly what just happened when the Chinese government put the kabosh on SUPERGIRL, China’s wildly popular answer to AMERICAN IDOL and the UK’s X-FACTOR. Deploring its corruption of China’s youth, the government says it will replace the show with practical information about—you won’t believe it—HOUSEWORK!
While the Chinese government claims to be concerned over the country’s morals, I suggest that the agenda is more a blatant attempt to control China’s female population, with whom the show was particularly popular. In fact, it seems obvious that the show’s winner, Li Yuchun, a 21 year-old with a bold personality and an androgynous appearance, was what threw the censors over the edge and caused them to give the show the axe. Ms. Yuchun apparently electrified hundreds of millions of young Chinese females with her talent and cocky style.
Even more telling is the government’s plan to replace this “excessive entertainment,” as they called it, with shows about housework. Do they really think that this will appease the hundreds of millions of Li’s fans?
Two questions: How long does China think it will be able to control its billion + population with censorship, and how long will it take for the world at large to stop trying so hard to control its female population?
I believe that this government has no idea of the strength and determination of this new generation of females, who are highly educated and have access to world culture. I’ll bet that China has not seen the last of its revolutions.
