Straight man cancer
来自China Digital Space
zhí nán ái 直男癌
Brazen machismo or heterosexual male chauvinism; conservative, misogynistic viewpoint.
"Straight man cancer" describes the outspoken misogyny and entitlement of many men (and some women) in China. The "disease" first appeared on Weibo and Douban in June 2014, gaining traction in response to several sexist Weibo posts by philosopher Zhou Guoping in January 2015. Zhou wrote that "love and childrearing" matter the most to women "in their hearts," and that women who deny this essential ambition lose their beauty in his eyes. Straight man cancer also infected Baidu on March 8 of that year, presenting as a "doodle" of a ballerina in a music box. It was a far cry from the illustration of Chinese women as doctors, athletes, and astronauts the search engine had commissioned and later scrapped.
In May 2016, scholar and PLA officer Wang Weixing was diagnosed with straight man cancer after he claimed that Taiwan's new president, Tsai Ing-wen, has a short-sighted, "emotional" approach to politics because she is single.
