A cure for “girly” boys

 
Proof that Asia is still confused about matters of gender

PRIESTS AT A temple in Thailand claim to have found a cure for boys who are a bit “girly”.

Send any effeminate male children you may have lying around to the Wat Kreung Tai Wittaya in Chiang Khong, and monks will take them through a series of talks and activities which will stop them “acting like girls”, according to an AFP report.

But what does “acting like girls” mean?

A quick glance through the coffee shop window gives me the answer:

a) Shopping with extreme violence, especially during sales;

b) Roaming the streets in scary boutique-seeking gangs;

c) Piercing their bodies in new and disgusting ways; and

d) Bankrupting dads with terrifying threats such as “But I NEED a nineteenth pair of shoes”.

Well, I guess it would be good if boys don’t do that sort of thing. Instead, boys can stay at home and use male grooming products, practice cooking and nurture their inner parent by playing with dolls.

My American friends say Asian males tend to be extremely “girly” by global standards of manliness, anyway.

 

(Compare: Western star Chuck Norris with Asian star Wallace Ho)

I don’t accept that for a moment, and the girls at the salon who do my bikini wax agree with me.
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Effeminacy seems to be in the air at the moment. (Not literally. Malaysian readers, relax.)

A book published this week reveals that the original British plan to get rid of Hitler was to turn him into a woman.

British spymasters tried to get estrogen slipped into his meals, historian Brian Ford wrote. The Brits believed that if Hitler became more female, he would become less aggressive and more pliable. Huh!? Had these guys ever met a woman?!
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AND HERE IS THE REST OF THE NEWS….


DID YOU read about that woman who gave birth in an aircraft at 3000 meters? I hope it wasn’t Ryanair. I can just imagine the woman screaming at the baby: “Don’t come out! Stay in there! It’s US$200 for extra baggage!”
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FROM THIS week, Australians have a choice of three genders on their passports: male, female, or X for “indeterminate”. Hey guys, Michael Jackson is DEAD.
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EXTRA SECURITY is to be deployed at the Hong Kong jewelry fair in February next year, after a series of heists committed by well-dressed women in the past. This is disgraceful. Please note, ladies. If you really want diamond rings, get them the traditional way. Marry Stanley Ho.
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A STUDY found that 50 percent of US college students drink themselves unconsciousness at least once a year. I’m guessing the other 50 percent can’t get to the bar because they are too stoned.
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THE NAME of China’s new space rocket Tiangong I, a poky capsule just 2.8 meters in diameter, translates  as “Heavenly Palace”. Clearly it must have been built by the same property firm who built my apartment.
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A SCIENTIST in South Carolina claims to be able to grow meat using standard laboratory equipment. Just think, in a couple of years’ time you’ll be going to the butcher and saying, “I’d like a tube of meat please.” At least it will be easy to make hot dogs.
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Comments

[Irene]

Nury, are you sure you did a bikini wax, and not a boyzilian, an all off waxing for gents, which is the same as Brazilian waxing for ladies? If not, but now you are intrigued, I know a few good salons in town, just let me know.

[rafanjr]

...hmmm, Metrosexuality started from the west end, so i don'e think asians have anything to do with it... we can't do anything if our built is more like the average western girl... Asian men are typically the silent, smooth moving, intelligent guy... and other guys are just all the beef with less in between the ears.

[Lift Lurker]

male, female, or X for “indeterminate”.

In Liftuania we have law being passed too. People want gender to be:

(MMM) Chuck Norris type
(MM) Manly man
(M) Regular man
(GM) Girly man
(EM) Effeminate man
(TBD) TBD
(RF) I am woman hear me roar
(MF) Manly girl
(F) Regular girl
(FF) Girly girl

[rafanjr]

...TBD for "to be decided"

[rafanjr]

...or "to be deduced"
or "to be doctored"

[Lift Lurker]

"to be doctored"

LIL!

(Laughing in Lift)

[Ram]

Well, the lab meat thing is still far from reality. Right now, they can only produce small shreds of meat using this method and it costs a lot (A pound of meat can cost around $50,000)... But they are trying to improve and demonstrate that they can do it in large scale.

Also, it may take time to convince people that this is safe and all that. Moreover, they currently use growth medium which still comes from animal sources. They are looking for medium from plant sources to grow meat in lab but many take some time and effort.

complete article can be found here...

http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v304/n6/full/scientificamerican0611-64.html

[web design Landon]

If not, but now you are intrigued, I know a few good salons in town, just let me know.

[Bianca Schlimm]

I need to see how Nury takes his sweater off in order to decide which category liftuanian gender he is.

So where is Nury TV?

I take my sweater off a little different than most women (in Europe?) but on the female side.

I read that in India and Pakistan one can also have third gender in passport.

[grandpa]

From Russia with love:

http://www.realt5000.com.ua/news/utf/en/1323296/

[peter wei]

Nury, if u mean gays for girlie boys, you might be accused of discrimination against gays. Don't u know most parts of the USA & Europe have already legalised same sex marriage. Don't forget the spate of correspondents that wrote years ago to the SCMP fighting by all possible means for gays rights?

[Jason]

"I don’t accept that for a moment, and the girls at the salon who do my bikini wax agree with me."

Now there is a mental image I didn't need!

[peter wei]

Don't worry about girlie boys or boyish girls. If same-sex marriage is legalised all over the world, one's gender can no longer be identified with clothes on!

[peter wei]

I omitted to add the UK would soon follow the same policy of legalising same-sex marriage. Frankly, as a Chinese or an Asian, I resent this as against nature, or satanism, as the Christians put it!

[web design Landon]

If not, but now you are intrigued, I know a few good salons in town, just let me know...

[Priyantha Liyanage]

Hey Nury, I come here after 2 years and you are [still] loudly funny :) Don't be upset about all comments re bikini wax thing, i know you are MM
Keep it up

[Lift Lurker]

Uncle Jam: and the girls at the salon who do my bikini wax agree with me.
Jason: Now there is a mental image I didn't need!

It get worse for me:

My children: Daddy, do you get bikini wax too like Mr Jam? Can we also do bikini wax?

LL: ???!!?! Uhm... it is not "wax" it is...uhm... eh... war!

MC: War? Bikini war?

LL: Yes, Mr Jam is leader of woman warriors in bikini.

MC: Mr Jam wear bikini when he go to war?

LL: No, the women wear bikini (I think).

MC: But what about the 'salon'. Isn't it the beauty salon?

LL: It is common spelling mistake. It mean 'saloon'. Mr Jam and his warriors girls hang out in the saloon. They drink beer and tequila.

MC: Oh Mr Jam is so manly.

LL: Yes it is clinically proven that if Chuck Norris come within 50 meters of Mr Jam, Chuck start to turn gay. At 10 meters Chuck is fully gay.

MC: Wow. When we grow up we want to be gay like Chuck Norris!

LL: No no no... gay mean happy. Mr Jam make people happy. He is humorist. To him, laughter is the best war machine.

MC: Yay! We want to be like Mr Jam and make people happy and lead women warriors in bikini.

LL: (Mental note. Block Mr Jam's website from children's computer)

[peter wei]

Would some of your readers care to clarify the exact meaning of "bikini wax"? You mean kind of a massage makeup for men and women?

[Karuna]

@peter wei,
"bikini wax" is similar to "ear wax". It is a yellowish waxy substance secreted along the bikini canal of humans and other mammals. It protects the skin of the human bikini canal, assists in cleaning and lubrication, and also provides some protection from bacteria, fungi, insects and water.

[grandpa]

#Karuna
Are you serious?!

Do you try to kill me by laughing, or choking?

You are not right
Bikini wax is a suntan lotion, made out of animal fat ( yeti, goat, or skunk) to protect men who go to the beach in trunks the size of a woman's bikini.
It smell is a gay repellent

[TS]

Would some of your readers care to clarify the exact meaning of "bikini wax"?

Pluck one of your nose hairs... Go on, we'll wait...
OK, now wipe the tears from your eyes.

Now think of the worst place on your body where a similar event could take place and multiply that by a thousand. A bikini wax removes hairs in batches.

[rafanjr]

...ooohhhhh TS, could you have just went on with karuna and grandpa....

[TS]

But they are both wrong.
The best bikini wax is made from elbow grease.