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Many schools in China require girls to cut their hairs short, so they don’t spend all their time on it and can study instead.
by HeavenFox 6y ago
Many schools in China require girls to cut their hairs short, so they don’t spend all their time on it and can study instead.
- behnamoh 6y agoTo think that many of them then end up in big tech makes me wonder if their oppressed needs causes them to make decisions that impose the same oppression of ideas/joy on their customers (basically, the rest of the world). Edit: Not saying that it would, I'm just questioning the possibility of it.
- rusabd 6y agoIt is more like high school pressure to conform
- interactivecode 6y agoIf you think people have “oppressed” needs caused by the rules around them, perhaps you should reassess which aspects of your own life are oppressed.
- elefanten 6y agoThat's a pretty good idea. Has anyone explored the option of disallowing friendships and romance? I think kids waste far too much time socializing and pursuing young love. That's a tremendous amount of wasted study time.
- naniwaduni 6y ago"Celibacy" might be a relevant keyword?
- jandrese 6y agoThere's probably some study of highly successful people that shows that the sociopaths with no friends tend to become CEOs so people want to follow in their footsteps to get the maximum score in life.
- cgrealy 6y agoThat’s either genius satire or terrifying psychopathy.
- Hamuko 6y agoFWIW, I did spot this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akikun1124/status/1219144685299490816 https://twitter.com/Akikun1124/status/1219144685299490816 >街で男女と1m以上離れる >恋愛禁止のため >（公立高校） Basically (as far as my elementary Japanese understands it), a public school has ruled that boys and girls should keep a distance of at least a metre in town in order to forbid relationships.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoSpot-on with the 1920s Progressive "we can improve society by sterilizing them" tone.
- JimTheMan 6y agoI can't tell if you are serious or not. Life isn't all about studying. We don't want a socially stunted generation that is so optimized for academic success they lose important lessons along the way. And to be honest, you can't stop teenagers anyway.
- ipiz0618 6y agoI think you're being sarcastic, but in some Asian countries disallowing romance is actually pretty common, even in high schools.