In some Japanese middle schools, ponytails are reportedly banned because they're thought to catch boys' eyes and sexually arouse them, reports 

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One in ten schools would be affected in Fukuoka prefecture.

Motoki Sugiyama, a former college professor, would have testified to this prohibition to our colleagues: “They are afraid that the boys will look at the girls.

It is the same reasoning that pushes to maintain the rule of white underwear only.

I have always criticized these rules, but there is such a lack of logic and it has become so normalized that students have no choice but to accept them.

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Sexist rules denounced by students and parents

Indeed, the list of eccentric and oppressive prohibitions is long: color of underwear, height of socks, shape of eyebrows, length of skirt, shape and color of hair... In the event of a deviant haircut, young Japanese would even have the obligation to prove, with a photo, that their hair has innate characteristics different from the majority of Japanese people, that is to say smooth and black.

Students and parents of students would have denounced these sexist rules in June 2021. With the effect of a change in the regulations in certain establishments only.

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