Funeral Strippers

[Major-Tom]

Hell, I want strippers and whiskey at my funeral. Don't want people all sad.

[Albrenia]

I'm pleasantly surprised that this topic is not about some horrible incident involving Trump.

On the topic itself, it seems quite horrible taste, but not sure if it is something that would need to be made illegal or anything.

[Oil exporting People]

For once, I agree with the CCP.

[MGTOWia]

China wages war on funeral strippers

China has launched its latest crackdown against a phenomenon which just won't seem to die in rural areas - funeral strippers.

The Ministry of Culture said last month that it was targeting "striptease" and other "obscene, pornographic, and vulgar performances" at funerals, weddings and traditional Chinese New Year public gatherings.

The war on strippers at funerals has been a long one for China. Authorities first began clamping down on "obscene" performances in 2006 and launched a second campaign in 2015.

The latest is focused on 19 cities across four provinces, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei, a statement on the website of the Ministry of Culture said.

Some communities in rural China reportedly believe that bigger attendances at funerals help to honour the dead and bring them good fortune.

But some experts say the erotic shows pay tribute to fertility.

"According to the interpretation of cultural anthropology, the fete is originated from the worship of reproduction," media professor Kuang Haiyan said, according to The Global Times. "Therefore the erotic performance at the funeral is just a cultural atavism."

Reports say the new campaign involves people being offered financial rewards to contact a special "hotline" to report "funeral misdeeds".

Media has often blamed the shows on the increasing decadence and materialism of Chinese families, as the country opens up the West.

"In recent decades," the Global Times said on Tuesday, "Chinese rural households are more inclined to show off their disposable incomes by paying out several times their annual income for actors, singers, comedians, and - most recently, strippers - to comfort the bereaved and entertain the mourners."

Xinhua news agency said in 2015 that exotic performances highlight "the trappings of modern life in China, whereby vanity and snobbery prevail over traditions.

I’m attending the wrong funerals. It’s not really how we think of funerals in the West (and why not), but this seems to be a bit of a tradition the Chinese government is trying to end. What else can you expect from an autocratic society though?

What say ye, masses of NSG?

Leave it to the ChiComs. Next thing you know, they'll be establishing the Junior Anti-Sex League.

At least, they're still developing sexbot technology.

[Pope Joan]

I am Scots Irish. My Scots side abhors such a display.

My Irish side says its a damn fine wake.

[Ethel mermania]

I think we need more strippers in life
Funerals, weddings, bar mitsvahs

Job interviews, commencement ceremonies, prostate exams...

While I am in full support of strippers at commencement ceremonies, I really have to draw the line at prostrate exams. Not exactly the time I want to see a stripper, or can see one for that matter.

[Katganistan]

Yes, but you teach kids, right? When Monitor said she taught English I was thinking she had adult students

I taught at a middle school.

I teach high school. Not sure you can still quite call them kids.

[Sovaal]

I taught at a middle school.

I teach high school. Not sure you can still quite call them kids.

Nah, to mentally immature to be kids.

[Katganistan]

No generation reinvent the language. They modify it, but Shakespeare's English and ours share ontological continuity

That's just semantics. Generations modify languages, and the line between reinvention, modification, renewal, and all those fancy modernisation words, is quite blurry.

Nowhere in Shakespeare's plays are the two words linked together, "Begone, Thot!" Yet it's made it into current language.

And this is really amusing given that Shakespeare flat out INVENTED words whenever he damned well felt like it.

So yes, language is continually reinvented.

[Katganistan]

Tell me, is letting the dead sit out to be fed upon by wild animals disrepsectful?

Not necessarily, their body is going to decay anyway (i.e eaten by microorganisms).

So allowing a body to be desecrated is ok, but allowing people to rejoice in life is not.

[Sovaal]

That's just semantics. Generations modify languages, and the line between reinvention, modification, renewal, and all those fancy modernisation words, is quite blurry.

Nowhere in Shakespeare's plays are the two words linked together, "Begone, Thot!"

And this is really amusing given that Shakespeare flat out INVENTED words whenever he damned well felt like it.

So yes, language is continually reinvented.

Nah man, like English pre and post William the Conqueror are totally the same!/s

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

That's just semantics. Generations modify languages, and the line between reinvention, modification, renewal, and all those fancy modernisation words, is quite blurry.

Nowhere in Shakespeare's plays are the two words linked together, "Begone, Thot!"

And this is really amusing given that Shakespeare flat out INVENTED words whenever he damned well felt like it.

So yes, language is continually reinvented.

Also, to my knowledge, Shapespeare never used the phrase "420YOLOSWAG4JESUS".

Hey, speaking of strippers: I had a thought on how we could revive interest in the art of playwriting...

[Katganistan]

A few people are calling this "traditional," but it is actually? Personally I have never heard of it, then again I never do large amounts of research into what even happens in China. I have no idea what the values of Chinese people are, but something makes me doubt that the idea of getting horny while you are also thinking of a dead friend or relative was never absurd. ...

Um....

[Novum Texas]

There goes my plans to have my funeral in China

[Katganistan]

Problem with that is that Sky Burials are just that and are widely done throughout the Himilayas. But ask them if they’re disrepsectful and they’ll say no. So using our standards of disrespectful for things such as this really doesn’t make any sense.

True.

Much like how many people would think that laughing and getting drunk at a funeral is disrespectful but not to my family.

Irish wake? In the sense that the casket is there and open, and people drink, sing, and tell stories about the decedent to celebrate their life?

[Ifreann]

And here I thought the Irish knew how to throw a good funeral...

We have much to learn from the Chinese.

[Great Kauthar]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

[Ifreann]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

Nothing moral about depriving grieving families of strippers.

[Great Kauthar]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

Nothing moral about depriving grieving families of strippers.

Nothing says grieving more than lusting after whore at someone's funeral.

[Cekoviu]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

Banning strippers at funerals is quite possibly the most morally degenerate thing possible. I'm disappointed tbh

[Petrasylvania]

Nothing moral about depriving grieving families of strippers.

Nothing says grieving more than lusting after whore at someone's funeral.

And if it was the deceased's final request? Such a nanny stater.

[Great Kauthar]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

Banning strippers at funerals is quite possibly the most morally degenerate thing possible. I'm disappointed tbh

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[Novum Texas]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

How is having strippers at your funeral immoral?

The former person asked for it, it's not like they are dancing on your grave without your permission.

[Great Kauthar]

Good. State atheist China finds a way to be more moral than the allegedly Christian west..

How is having strippers at your funeral immoral?

The former person asked for it, it's not like they are dancing on your grave without your permission.

Doesn't matter, it's still immoral whether they ask for it or not.

[VoVoDoCo]

How is having strippers at your funeral immoral?

The former person asked for it, it's not like they are dancing on your grave without your permission.

Doesn't matter, it's still immoral whether they ask for it or not.

^If it's immoral it should be outlawed

Good bye cussing! Good bye hormones! Good bye not 24/7 respecting your parent's wishes! Good bye lying!...