The CCP Attempts to Silent Female Critics with Shameful Smear Campaigns

The CCP's recent smear campaigns against overseas female critics echoed some of the traditional Chinese culture's worst misogynist aspects.

Anyone willing to speak the truth about China and criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a person of tremendous courage because the CCP has little tolerance for any criticism. The party has a long history of brutally suppressing dissenting voices since its founding. The CCP's recent smear campaigns against overseas female critics have been especially shameful and echoed some of the traditional Chinese culture's worst misogynist aspects.

The traditional Chinese culture has made extraordinary contributions to humanity. But like all cultures, the traditional Chinese culture is not perfect. One of its distinctive shortcomings is its attitude and treatment of women.

For more than two thousand years, Chinese women were supposed to be obedient to all the males in her life: before she was married, she was controlled and dominated by her father and brothers; after she got married, by her husband; once she was widowed, by her son. The traditional Chinese culture viewed independent-minded…