I remember CNN ran an article about how “in North Korea women are only allowed six different hair styles”, and it was illustrated with a pic from a DPRK hair salon with a hairdresser standing in front of a poster with like ten different cuts, none of which the hardresser had herself.
It’s just wild how cartoonishly lazy western propaganda is.
It can be lazy because their audience is gullible.
Oh, absolutely. And most people are just going to take a quick glance at the header and file it under “Reasons why North Korea bad”. I’m sure very few people actually read this shit.
And because they want to believe it. Choosing to believe it, despite how obviously false all the propaganda is, allows them to feel better about themselves and the countries they live in.
That’s because the hairdresser was part of the politburo, she was above the law
acting like these dont exist in the west as I breathlessly scream about how this is proof of a dictatorship
Kids in American middle school getting written up for not having one of these haircuts, by a teacher that wants you to know how free we all are.
In primary school I was told I’d have to wear a ponytail if I grew my hair out because I’m AMAB, and I think it’s the single biggest factor in delaying my transition. I could have figured this stuff out when I was 10 if I’d been allowed to experiment at my own pace.
My all-boys high school had a rule that hair couldn’t be long enough to touch your shirt collar. Being allowed a ponytail would have been an upgrade if I hadn’t just stopped following the rules.
See, the ideal solution to that problem is a huge afro
American only allow eat what on McDonald menu. And at the Bloomfield Barber Shop in Bloomfield, NJ you can only get these haircuts, any deviation results in termination by Dark Brandon.
Under socialism everyone will be by law required to have a pompadour.
Just another victim of the pomade lobby
Does that mean socialism will cure my male pattern baldness? Sweet!
The only person able to tell you how to wear your hair should be your employer at a private corporation.
In USA you must have Donald Trump combover or you are executed.
10/10 username
In gommunist North Korea everyone is required to be shaved and the barber must only shave those that do not shave themselves. Every time the barber grows a beard he and his entire family are sent to the paradox gulags.
Meanwhile in Burgerland the Hitler-Youth-Top-With-Viking-LARPer-Beard thing is an expression of unique individuality.
Oh boy? Boy boy!
Of all the bullshit North Korea stories that have gotten play in the West (NK has nuclear zombies, discovering a unicorn, executing their Olympic soccer team, executing all their nuclear scientists … I could go on), the haircut stories are honestly the funniest becuase it changes every time depending on how some white guy interprets the stuff on a Korean salon’s wall. Like depending on the Western source you either have to get Kim’s haircut or your forbidden from getting it, there might be 6, 10 or 20 allowable haircuts or those same haircuts are forbidden for being too Western, maybe ladies all have to get men’s haircuts or ladies aren’t allowed it salons at all becuase only men’s hairstyles are on the wall.
And this has all been published in supposedly reputable Western papers, the real batshit crazy stuff that right-wing tabloids in South Korea churns out or the recent claims Yeonmi Park has been putting out never makes it into the mainstream press.
What so you’re saying that it gets more absurd that this??? What are the South Korean tabloids saying about the DPRK?
It’s literally the same stuff Yeonmi Park says, she got famous in the first place selling her story in SK. I’m fairly sure a lot of the stuff she tells people in the West come directly from tabloid stories. Like she told this story on Rogen, that during an earthquake people were running into collapsing buildings so they could eat the unguarded food. That basically gets repeated in SK tabloids everytime there is a significant earthquake in Korea.
Everyone should be forced to have my haircut. It’s a little no nonsense thing called male pattern baldness and it’s fine, you don’t even have to go to a barber unless you’re forced to have the haircut which I guess I’m arguing for. Maybe we could have a Freddy Krueger-type deal where the barber cuts your hair in your sleep and it affects your body in real life. It’s only common sense.
Please Mr biden my friends and I yearn for the freedom of individual expressions please send reaper drones
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