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@Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to World News@beehaw.org • 2 years ago

North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’

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North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’

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@Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to World News@beehaw.org • 2 years ago
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Men can continue to wear shorts as they please, but women must maintain ‘socialist etiquette.’
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  • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    Also having a mullet is illegal in North Korea for the same reason. That’s not even a joke.

    • @outer_spec@lemmy.studio
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      8•2 years ago

      Bitches will just refer to anything they personally dislike as “decadent” and refuse to elaborate huh

      • PostmodernPythia
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        2 years ago

        Auth-left calls it decadence, auth-right calls it degeneracy. Authoritarians hate any deviance from their norms.

    • @wipasoda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      im not even mad, that’s amazing

    • @brsrklf@compuverse.uk
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      …mullets? Do they fear cultural imperialism by time travellers from the 80s?

      • PostmodernPythia
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        Who doesn’t?

        • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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          3•2 years ago

          Bill & Ted’s Gulag Journey

          Bill and Ted go to North Korea and wacky hijinx ensue.

          • PostmodernPythia
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            Well played.

    • DarkThoughts
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      Even if I drive an Opel Manta with a fox tail on the antenna?

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