Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/china-is-blurring-mens-earri.html
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I keep thinking of the poor sod whose job it is to find all the earrings and put a blur circle over them. The censorship and surveillance industries are basically China’s version of lifetime full employment, aren’t they.
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I thought blurry earrings were just a hot new fashion statement, kind of like those rectangular black swimsuits you sometimes see in news reporting about clothing-optional events.
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I can’t wait for the upcoming controversial single from Ribin Thicke, “Blurred Earrings.”
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Blur this…
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Awwe! That’s so cute! I remember when earrings on men were considered shocking! It was about 35 years ago. Right meant gay, except in Boston where it was the other way round.
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George Carlin had earrings on the list of things guys shouldn’t do anymore:
“Guys started wearing earring to piss of the squares. The squares are wearing them now!”
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I thought guys started wearing earrings because they were salty tars?
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makes me remember the old joke : a teenager comes home wearing an earring. His father immediately comments : “you’re wearing an earring, this means either you are a pirate, or you are gay. Let me warn you : I don’t want to see any ship in the front yard.”
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I thought it was “I’d better see a ship in the driveway!”
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It’s a variant. 
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I used to blur my earring around my dad.
When I wore an earring and had a dad.
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For members of a vanguard party they get so insecure over the pettiest things. One might conclude that their ideology isn’t as indomitable and free from internal contradictions as they claim.
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Once you realize that in china male ear piercings are referred to as “ear nipples” it becomes clear… or blurry in this case. J/K
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Glenn Baxter
Chen.
James Chen.
I like my fry stirred and my ears inscrutable.
I wonder if this decade will be seen as bit repressive, like the 1950s,and if there will be a rebound in the next decade.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it’s been turned into a CAPTCHA: “Please select all photos showing religious jewelry, tattoos, or men with earrings and click the ‘Execute’ button to log in.”
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This being BoingBoing I first misread like "China is Burning Man…
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