MP: Foot Binding Still in China? Women with Bound Feet Today?
March 4th, 2010
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I’d be damn proud of my tiny feet, too! Those women had to go through hell. I can’t imagine doing the same. D:
the women parent would have to keep there feet to be 3 inches how they bound the feet sounds painful. if you anyone wants to know more just send me a message.
The bounded feet was not saw them as beauty but they did that to avoid being taking away by Mongolian men after being attacked because the feet bounded women couldnt walk well. If they couldnt walk well they couldnt ride horse either and without ability to ride a horse would be useless to Mongolian men who were horsemen. The feet bindings and such as building the great wall were related to preventing themselves from foreigners attack. The Chinese were very scare of the mighty Mongolians then.
“‘Lotus Feet’ were not origionally to prevent the woman from running – it was seen as a sign of extreme beauty, …”That’s the orfficial story, written by, who else, men. History is written by the ones on top, and certainly Confucian China had the pecking order.Truth is, women have always been repressed worldwide, and China was no different. Imagine, a thousand years of pain and tears.Footbinding is equal to female genital mutilation. Both contribute to mental slavery/resignation
The mongolian women never bound their feet
Maybe he was kept from describing it. I mean, only 150 years ago, a scientist from I believe, Sweden, discovered that the reason why germs were spreading in hospitals is because people were not washing their hands with a solution before going onto their next task. He went insane, because people thought he was crazy for saying such things. So, imagine 13th century talk. I wonder how he must’ve felt.
those little old ladies are ADORABLE!
look it up there are other vids with *flinches* eww… explicit pics
I did that a while ago but thx anyway. They are NARSTY.
‘Lotus Feet’ were not origionally to prevent the woman from running – it was seen as a sign of extreme beauty, due to an Emperors dancer, who had amazingly small feet and was considered the most beautiful woman of the time.The Lotus Walk was considered highly erotic, especially as none of the men ever even saw the women without their shoes on.It was also a display of wealth – the woman did not need to do physical manual labour, thus did not need easy movement.