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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Girls UND panzer irl be like

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Were women allowed in school in Dai Nippon Empire? They barely get accepted in Japan nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was a jab at women being rejected from universities in Japan, ongoing cultural problem. Also a legitimate question as well, I have no idea what sort of rights were afforded to women in Japan before their occupation by the USA, but I know historically they were treated like objects and dealt with footbinding or other body modifications.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought foot binding was a Chinese tradition?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I don't really care who started it but it became really popular to bind dancer's feet into very tiny shoes in Heian Japan starting in the 10th century, and it continued until it was banned some time after WWII. There was even a medical journal article about it in 1937.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem real.

Dreadlocks would have been extremely abnormal for the period. Hell, it'd be extremely abnormal now.

You sure this isn't some indy photoshoot or AI or something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're serious, and I don't know if the pic is authentic, but I don't see dreadlocks, just thick Asian hair.

Source: I'm Asian and had classmates with the same kind of hair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The one on the left has half her hair in dreadlocks.

I guess the shutter could have blurred it to look exactly like dreadlocks, but it looks pretty definitive to me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Believe it or not deadlocks aren't indigenous to modern era afor Americans

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did I say it was? My point was that it would be very odd in 1945 Japan

Jfc. Nevermind, I'm not getting anywhere in this thread. I guess this isn't a community for discussion, just neat pictures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I thought the same thing tbh, but upon zooming in I think it may just be a combo of shadows/sunlight and a shitty 1945 camera. Some of the "dreads" look kinda like normal hair towards the tips.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If anything, it's caked in mud.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Could be. I tried a reverse image search to find more context, and didn't find anything but posts like this with no citations, starting from 2017.

I'm not convinced it's real.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Japan was really desperate huh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The level they were willing to go would have made insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan seem tame. even the elderly in some cases were being given sharp sticks and expected to train on how to defend their given area.

I know a lot of people in the modern age abhor nuclear weapons and consider their existence crimes against humanity and their use in WW2 the greatest atrocities ever committed, but their use in 1945 factually saved the lives of hundreds of thousands on both sides, Japanese commitment to defending the home islands that intense it's entirely likely literal millions would have died in their defense, despite knowing it was inevitable a US force would eventually successfully gain control of most if not all the population centers and resources.

As a matter of fact, more people died in Tokyo from daily bombing raids in a single day than both atomic bombings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That girl on the left has some cool-ass cyberpunky hair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's most likely the result of a lot of dust/dirt and wind I think.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you think? I couldn't figure out why she had dreadlocks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We can't see her hands well either. Maybe she's AI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Maybe you are, even. Brave new world, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

My hair gets that way after a night's sleep or when taking it down sometimes. That expression on her face makes it seem like she just doesn't care any more and let it go.

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