True Left

"China keeps Westernizing:"

Yep.

sissy men and other abnormal esthetics

Abnormal compared to what? Western standards? Is this idiot unaware that it is deliberate common practice in Counterculture-era storytelling for the hero to portrayed as less masculine than the villain?



The CCP guy is apparently oblivious not only to Counterculture-era movies but also to pre-modern literature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Baoyu

Jia Baoyu (traditional Chinese: 賈寶玉; simplified Chinese: 贾宝玉; pinyin: Jiǎ Bǎoyù; "Precious Jade", and his surname is a homophone with "false" or "fictitious") is the principal character in the classic 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
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Baoyu is portrayed as having little interest in learning the Confucian classics, much to the despair of his father, Jia Zheng. He would rather spend his time reading or writing poetry and playing with his numerous female relations. He is nonetheless compassionate and thoughtful (perhaps as a juxtaposition onto the other male characters in the novel).

"I wonder to what extent this is obsession with masculinity is driven by communist aesthetics, general Western aesthetics, and non-Western traditionalist Confucian aesthetics?"

In theory, communism should be opposed to masculinity, as a key feature of masculinity is competitiveness, which would sooner or later disrupt a planned economy. But most communists I have encountered do not highlight this point. Instead, it is more common for communists to adopt prole stereotypes of bourgeois men being less masculine than themselves, for which they look down on the bourgeois men.

Confucianism's main concern is maintaining patriarchy on the macro-scale, but would discourage ostentation of masculinity by individuals, in contrast to Western tradition. It is unclear which mode of behaviour the CCP wants more of. To be honest, I doubt they have even thought through the issue properly. Nothing they say seems to have any deep ideological foundation. For example:

programs should “vigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.”

These are mutually exclusive. Promoting one would involve condemning another. But the guy talking doesn't seem to care.

"Although this once again demonstrates how the False Left and Right are both obsessed with masculinity."

I logically deduced that False Leftists valued masculinity the moment they started promoting the term "toxic masculinity" to describe manifestations of masculinity that they dislike, which implies their belief that there also exists a non-toxic version of masculinity.