Interesting that the reactionary is recuperating "gender self-expression" to describe girls wearing feminized clothes but not the normalized (in the 20th-21st century) crossdressing. Instead that's described as communistic and sexless. Which is also interesting. What depths the Sinophobic reactionary brainpan has!
It's interesting to compare with Westoid lib blob's reaction to Japanese schools allowing girls to choose to wear pants, which is generally heralded as a progressive measure.
I think the reactionary is using sex in the other sense. Because they want to sex children. And since boys and girls are basically indistinguishable, this is done through hair and clothing. Call this socially-coerced sexing "gender expression" in order to court cultural feminists.
maybe its cold out, the boy is wearing pants and as science tells us girls get cold faster than boys. They're also wearing long sleeves and their complexions have lightened. This is clearly the winter 1997 edition of this textbook.
I wonder if Mr China Watcher would be just as mad if they gave the boys shorts and short sleeves in the new version? Xi is feminizing the men? Chinese children so hungry they lack body fat to stay warm even during exercise?
idk, if you're going for a run, doing it in pants seems easier and more comfortable than a skirt. never worn a skirt in public yet though so i guess i got to get back to you on that. maybe some other hexbear user can chime in with personal experience on running in both
Skorts (skirts with shorts underneath) are just as easy to run in as shorts or pants, in my experience, because they'll usually have pockets or stitching to keep the skirt part in place. Skirts suck for active wear imo, cuz they usually flap up against your torso when you run if they're short, or tangle around your legs when longer. Can't speak for old timey kilts and whatnot. Pants with pockets will always be my go to. I fully support skirts as fashion wear for everyone though.
I think it's either a result of the printing or the photography. All the colors look washed out on the new version. Compare the blue around the title and the new one is lighter. Same with the track and the boy's clothes.
That's true. You still definitely look more credible saying that it shows China's Han supremacist attitude or whatever instead of complaining about the sexless depiction of middle schoolers.
Am I the only runner here who was creeped out by how short the running shorts were in school? Like 13 year old me running track in school felt very violated.
i wore boy shorts (i am a boy just fyi or rather a man thing) and they were called basketball shorts and went past the knees. both boys and girl's wore the same shorts because they were unisex so we never had that issue...
were there different kinds of clothing for each gendee in your school? we sorta had to buy ours from the school.
I ran cross country and personally I preferred the freedom of split shorts, but I can definitely see the other perspective. I also get hot really easily, so I was happy to shed any bit of fabric I could get away with.
Rule of law is when a panel of unelected Olds with several sex pests on it determines that it is legal for corporations to steal your brain to mine crypto and render your body into fuel for the nightmare reactor.
And if it was the other way around it would "show" that the Chinese government is a regressive fascist government who pushes traditional gender roles on young children to train boys to be soldiers and girls to be brood mares or something, yadda yadda, roll Parenti quote.
It’s funny how big the projection is on making this about sexuality. I think the real story is that they made these kids extremely pale and made them wear long sleeves and pants to avoid the sun. If there’s anything toxic here it’s East Asia’s obsession with paleness (and they are so good at it that they are often paler than euros at this point lmao). For this textbook it’s probably just to convey the innocence of the children, seeing that they’ve been protected from the aging rays of the sun. I’m not Chinese or even Asian for that matter so what do I know though.
here’s the old and new without distortion from the original platform. i think they look lighter, but this looks to be mostly just from simplifying the depiction to make it more cartoonish. now i’ve really read into this too much