China Shuts Down Women's Virtue Class

Authorities have shut down a “women’s virtue” class in northeastern China after a video surfaced. The video shows the women being instructed to “talk less” and remain at the “bottom level”.

The classes were being held in the town of Fushun since 2011 and covered a range of dos and don’ts for women, according to what teachers thought was traditional Chinese culture.

Course content shocking

The women were ordered to wake up at 4.30 am and do domestic chores for eight hours. Their performance was closely monitored and they were punished for wearing make-up or talking about their ambitions

The women were instructed to never try and move upwards in society and always remain at the bottom level. The instructions they were given were bizarre. 

“If you order food delivery instead of cooking by yourself, you are disobeying rules for women,” was one of the instructions. 

In the video clip, the women are weeping, kneeling and apologising for wrong deeds. According to the teachers, if the women have sex with more than three men, the semen would become poisonous and might kill them.

Run by murderer

The institution was run by someone who had been jailed for murder. He had left school when he was 14 after killing his teacher. 

“I didn’t expect it would be like this – that I would be treated as even worse than a prisoner,” a 47-year-old woman attending the classes told the newspaper

“What I find worse is that they instil the idea that men are superior to women and our teachers keep repeating that the most important task for a woman is to reproduce, that she cannot say ‘no’ to her husband and divorce is unacceptable.”

Authorities have asked for a check to find similar institutes.

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