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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction -- the world's first "women's town," where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.

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The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as "women's town," was based on the local traditional concept of "women rule and men obey," a tourism official told Reuters.

"Traditional women dominate and men have to be obedient in the areas of Sichuan province and Chongqing, and now we are using it as an idea to attract tourists and boost tourism," the official, surname Li, said by telephone.

The tourism bureau planned to invest between 200 million yuan ($26 million) and 300 million yuan in infrastructure, roads and buildings, Li said.

"We welcome investors from overseas and nationwide to invest in our project," he added.

The motto of the new town would be "women never make mistakes, and men can never refuse women's requests," Chinese media have reported.

When tour groups enter the town, female tourists would play the dominant role when shopping or choosing a place to stay, and a disobedient man would be punished by "kneeling on an uneven board" or washing dishes in restaurant, media reports said.

The project, begun in the end of 2005, was expected to take three to five years to finish.

{Yahoo News - Friday, April 27, 2007}

I cant help but think (yeh i know this china thing is kinda funny....but...) there are a lot of people (men included) who dont like men very much!!!!!!!!



I dont like people very much!!! in general, but have never come across a differance between the way men and the way women act-they are the same if you ask me. Some lovely, some youd rather avoid, some damn right mean.

I dont know, this is such a female dominated society at the minute-if you ask me!! So many people in the media slagging off men, it seems men cant do a thing right..

Well im glad im a man

so pooh to you all that say men suck..good men kick ass and i wouldnt want to be anything else.

Sorry maybe that had no relevance, but i just thought id get that off my chest..

I cant rememeber now, whos exactly it is (i think the fraj) sigature-you cant spell malelovance, without male....

aww i dunno, we need a mens revolution-but im not sure there are going to many takers around here......

Im here because i like knowledge, so i suppose im like an outsider looking in...

oh i dunno, i need breakfast...

Link please?!

Link please?!

Since I have an inbuilt fear of nuns in red costumes, here's the link for you Kristoff : http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRe ... 7120070426

Is this supposed to be China's version of The Other World Kingdom?

What a stupid idea and one that I would never visit.Women are by no means superior but think they are.People that usually shout about how brilliant they are usually are insecure and eventually believe their own rhetoric.

Men have brought a hell of alot to this world from art to construction and there maybe wars but they would be alot more if women ran the world.

I agree with one of the respondents that men need to stand up for themselves and stop letting women and the media belittle them.

oh thank you

my new fav person!!!

anyways ..there would be a new war everytime a new topshop opened!!!!

I soooooo agree with you "Mininuts" when you say "

Mininuts (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:07 am men need to stand up for themselves and stop letting women and the media belittle them.

"

There are many negative stereotypical things that are (INCORRECTLY) called "masculine" tendencies and behaviours. But the facts are, as I see them at least, that women do many very wrong and evil things, but they are not criminalized behaviours, but they should be.

Sounds like an interesting Chinese version of the OWK. It would be interesting to know if there really is a tradition in that part of China of female domination or if this has just been made up by the tourist board.

Mininuts (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:07 am What a stupid idea and one that I would never visit.Women are by no means superior but think they are.People that usually shout about how brilliant they are usually are insecure and eventually believe their own rhetoric.

Men have brought a hell of alot to this world from art to construction and there maybe wars but they would be alot more if women ran the world.

I agree with one of the respondents that men need to stand up for themselves and stop letting women and the media belittle them.

If there ever was an invitation extant .... oh, whatever....

Refer to a very mild variant of what I would expect in response to this post.

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=10954

OTOH, far be it from me to quibble on either side. Choose your weapons, provided they are not sharp.

I wasnt wanting a war of words with anyone over my opinion but it is true that men are continually being made the butt off jokes on tv all the time and

suffer equal discrimination.eg why is there no national screening for testicular cancer or prostate cancer like there is for breast cancer.

Why would there be uproar if women were betrayed as simple idiotic buffoons but its ok for men to be.The reason is because men let it ride and dont complain about the treatment we get.

Also in cases of wars etc why does it always say on the news that women and children were hurt or killed but nothing really about the men that are usuaqlly butchered in wars etc.Are our lives less valuable than womens.I THINK NOT!!

The troops taken hostage in Iran scenarion,who were they gonna release first? Answer the woman!! Why? she signed up to be in the forces like all the men.They have families and children and wives and are someones son.

There are just so many instances of the undermining of the male that is men dont wake up they will become totally irrelevant and just a pet accessory .

well said...

A comment to your post:

truly committed (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:47 pm I dont like people very much!!! in general, but have never come across a differance between the way men and the way women act-they are the same if you ask me. Some lovely, some youd rather avoid, some damn right mean.

One observation I´ve made working overseas when I did not understand the language and so could only observe people is that there are men that are a very handsome expression of masculinity, men that are a very ugly expression of masculinity, women that are a very attractive expression of feminity and women that are a very ugly expression of feminity.

future.

to think that we as human race would spend so much money on this sort of project is disturbing.

the earth is slowly dissolving around us. things are over heating. the majority of sea life sits on a can in our local super markets. green house gasses are smothering us. bees are said to be dyeing faster that ever before, and our quality of life is just now starting to reflect the global devastation of industrialization/economy.

i know everyone has a right to there own opinion.

so im just voicing the fact that i feel a waist of time and energy is this "women town".

is it not true that wether man or women, we are all human, deserving of being treated as such?

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