{"id":253454,"date":"2018-09-05T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=253454"},"modified":"2020-08-09T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T15:30:26","slug":"flowerboys-and-the-appeal-of-soft-masculinity-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/flowerboys-and-the-appeal-of-soft-masculinity-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowerboys and the appeal of \u2018soft masculinity\u2019 in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Beautiful!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A man wearing make-up on the street may elicit unwelcome glares, questions about his masculinity and even his sexuality. But in South Korea, ideas about how to look good as a man are changing attitudes and influencing the world, as the BBC&#8217;s Saira Asher reports.<\/p>\n<p>When the BBC posted a video about the make-up routine of a 16-year-old YouTuber in Seoul on Facebook, the reactions ranged from intrigued to downright vitriolic.<\/p>\n<p>Some assumed this meant he was gay, while others admonished him for his choice saying &#8220;real men don&#8217;t wear make-up&#8221;. There were, of course, those that argued for his freedom to live life however he pleased and against the &#8220;fragile masculinities&#8221; on show.<\/p>\n<p>But Kim Seung-hwan is used to it. He says he&#8217;s been called gay by some Koreans online for as long as he&#8217;s been doing make-up tutorials.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about whether he thought he looked feminine after he put on make-up, he was confused by the question as if he had never even thought about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I don&#8217;t. I do not think about this being a girly look,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s about looking good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-42499809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-42499809<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Beautiful! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":253455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}