If you look at female athletes from China (doing very active sports like soccer), you'll notice a lot of them also have very short hairs. I think it's more to do with shorter hairs are easier to manage when you are very active.
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Good points, especially about safety. Long hair is a major safety hazard when working around rotating equipment. There was a student at Yale University who died two years ago when her hair was sucked into a piece of lab equipment.
But female sailors in other navies have adapted to naval life without having to look like men. For example:
As another poster noted, Chinese female athletes have the same man-like short hair cuts even when there is no reason to. When I was watching Olympic table tennis, only the Chinese players' haircuts looked like men, not the women from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Singapore. Do Chinese schools suppress feminine identity? Are they worried that if an athlete or sailor is good-looking, they will be a distraction among the crew? There is something unique in Chinese military and athletic culture regarding women's appearance that is very unusual.
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If anything, China is one of the few countries in the world that encourages female identity and educates female from a young age to believe that they are as strong as male. Mainland China is perhaps the only society that does not require female to change their family names to those of their husbands. In modern China, buying a house before marriage and letting their future husbands move into their houses has become a trend for young women in China. they believe they, as female, are as capable as male and should bare the same responsibility as male to support their families. So there is no such thing as suppressing female identity. Having short hair has absolutely nothing to do with female identity. My sister has had short hair all her life and she does it because it's more convenient. In fact, it is a good indication of individuality. They do what they feel right and don't care about status quo and what others might think/say about it.
I'm sorry what? All the women in those images have much longer hair than the men, and you can even spot a pony tail on one of them.
Wait, let me try something. Hmmm...
Female US Marines with tied, or short hair... (Or are they men, oh no, I can't tell.)
Chinese athlete with long hair...
Oh my, is America suppressing femininity?! LOL.
The answer is no. XD . The entire line of discussion on this has been hilarious so far.
Now would be a good time to get back to anti-piracy discussions right?
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solarz
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I'm sorry what? All the women in those images have much longer hair than the men, and you can even spot a pony tail on one of them.
Wait, let me try something. Hmmm...
Female US Marines with tied, or short hair... (Or are they men, oh no, I can't tell.)
Chinese athlete with long hair...
Oh my, is America suppressing femininity?! LOL.
The answer is no. XD . The entire line of discussion on this has been hilarious so far.
Now would be a good time to get back to anti-piracy discussions right?
LOL, awesome rebuttal! And who's the girl in blue?
Blackstone
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Will you stop trying to make the same joke?
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She's Zheng Jie
Here's the obligatory wiki link:
I don't know how sailors in any navy can practice marksmanship when the ship bobbing up and down? How the heck can one accurately "zero in" on your weapon by making adjustments on the aim sights after firing a few rounds?
Just guessing here, but training to shoot accurately with the ship bobbing up and down is probably the point.