This is so sad. Imagine what effect this poorly conceived idea on the part of China's powers-that-be will have on that little girl's self-esteem, the one with the beautiful voice who was told she just wasn't pretty enough to go on stage.
This, after the fireworks scandal and rumors about some of their gymnasts' ages, may not be the impression China is trying (a bit too hard) to project. In fact, it may just end up reinforcing some of the world's existing trepidation.
About Me
- eudaimonia
- As noted on my bio page, along with the fact that I will occasionally wear a scarf, I work in the communications/media industry. In my other life, I am a grad student and (eek) poet. I live in state-sanctioned holy matrimony with a person of the opposite gender, but we find it more romantic to play like we're just shacking up. Actually, we've been together about 10 years as of today. Politically, I'm a registered Democrat who sometimes votes Libertarian, still mourns the death of the socialist project and thinks Arlen Specter is kind of cute (in that curmudgeonly grandfather kind of way.) Metaphysically speaking, my closest fits right now are secular humanist/religious trivia buff/failed mystic. Re: all this about the Golden Mean, etc., I wish I could say I knew my Classics (much less geometry) inside and out, but what I dig I dig.
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