China’s new fad is parents putting helmets on babies to mold their heads round

NT Post ^ | October 30, 2021 | Dana Kennedy

[BenLurkin]

The current fad apparently stems from a belief that a round head is more beautiful. Because babies have soft bones, parents are using a variety of “head-shape correction” products like pillows, helmets and mats to mold their heads into a round shape, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.

One mother wrote a post on a Chinese social media site titled: “I took my baby to head-shape correction, despite my family’s protests.”

[webheart]

It will actually cause brain damage. My grandson had a brain cyst which was an accumulation of fluid in his cranium which caused his brain to grow in a different shape and even after relieving the pressure through surgery he was never quite the same.

[PIF]

There used to be stories about girls in Asia, forced to wear teeny tiny shoes because the culture decided small feet were ‘ladylike’

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Foot binding was practiced in China since the 10th century until the early 20th

[bagster]

China’s new fad is parents putting helmets on babies to mold their heads round

[Theoria]

China already has the facekini.

[Chickensoup]

when I was young in my field children were kept on their sides and stomachs to prevent aspiration and a well formed child head was a bit flattened on the sided and curved in the back

an infant or child with a flattened head back was possibly neglected in their crib for too long.

Now that children’s sit in those space capsules and sleep on their back, they all have heads like lollipops when looked at from the front and flat in the back. Odd looking.

[Chickensoup]

why do they have a face kini?

Looks more like a face burka.

[Flick Lives]

Personally I don’t understand why they don’t aspire to conehead shape for their children.

I hear the Anunnaki look is the in thing.

[livius]

What is the point of the face-kini? I know Asians fear the sun (they believe darker skin makes them look lower class, like people who work in the fields). Is it about sun protection, Covid hysteria, Islam or some other totally bizarre only-in-China thing?

[sunny bonobo]

How long before the libs and sjw’s blame the white man for this. They’ve already blamed us for the skin whitening craze in some Asian cultures when historically, it’s always been a status symbol to some, long before they ever saw a white person.

[Hiddigeigei]

Girls feet were broken, folded under then bound. There is a book by the wife of a former Chinese ambassador to the United States, Madame Wei Tao-Ming, called My Revolutionary Years. She tells that several times her mother had her feet broken and bound, and each time she unbound them and straightened them. Finally her mother said, "Well, if you want to look like a peasant, I will let you."

[bagster]

[sunny bonobo]

Unnnggghhh
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I like to think I’m not totally out of touch with popular culture, but every so often, a freeper will post a pic that I have no idea of what it’s from. Please enlighten my dumbass.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Never mind kung fu, it appears Lucha libre is in fashion.

[Theoria]

Asia. Just weird, some are. Purity staying ‘whiter.’ Shelves are full of skin lightener cream. India as well. Facekini was precovid.

Lotus feet, aka foot binding is another weird one.

[metmom]

And the point of that is what exactly?

[Trillian]

It's a scene out of the movie, "The Coneheads". They are about to leave the planet and go home and Beldar's daughter tells him she's in love with her bf ronnie, who is a human. He let's out this dreadful moan in the video here. It's a funny movie.

[oldvirginian]

For centuries breast and foot binding of girl children was the norm in China. They thought by binding the breasts and feet it would prohibit growth. All it did was horribly deform the feet and lead to much breast pain for grown women.

[lizma2]

I originally thought it was women in wealthy families but later found out it was done to any girl who's family wanted to raise their social standing.

[NetAddicted]

I thought parents were supposed to not keep their babies on their backs all the time to prevent that. Maybe this is what happens if babies are in daycare permanently.

[SunkenCiv]

Bring back foot binding! /s