[Yudi]

I will never again complain about my shoes or feet....

[3ammo]

oh my.. thank god for our health

[fatuma]

Women chose, as was frequent in a male dominant society, to bind their own feet. It was thought to be fashionable and a mark or distinction to have bound and almost nonfunctional feet. Chinese foot binding was then inflicted on young female children, with mothers performing the binding when girls were as young as five.

One result of Chinese foot binding was extreme pain. The first year of Chinese foot binding would result in breakage of four toes. They would knit back together in a deformed fashion, and young girls would have to walk solely on their heels to avoid walking on the painful toes. Chinese foot binding also inhibited normal growth of the feet so that the bound feet of grown women were extremely small.

In fact, the smaller the feet, the more aristocratic the woman seemed, so it soon became popular among the lower classes to compete with each other over whose daughter’s feet seemed the smallest. Because Chinese foot binding inhibited movement, girls often couldn’t perform the kind of work required in running a household. This magnified the position that Chinese girls were less preferable than boys, particularly among the lower classes, where work was needed to keep food on the table.

The practice of Chinese foot binding was outlawed in 1911. In China today, a woman binding her child’s feet would be subject to criminal charges of child abuse. However, the uselessness of girls is still a commonly held belief, particularly with the Chinese restriction on each family only having one child. It is considered far more fortunate to have a boy child, and this in part accounts for the many Chinese girls who are abandoned at orphanages.


good it is forbidden now

[Yudi]

Thank God they forbid it now Fatuma.... and have u heard how many baby girls are left to die when not taken to orphanages

Huggies, I have to get ready for work now.... See u all laterz

[Susu0o8]

OMG.. that unbelievable.. I'm so glad our society isn't like that

[Serenity]

Originally Posted by fatuma

Women chose, as was frequent in a male dominant society, to bind their own feet. It was thought to be fashionable and a mark or distinction to have bound and almost nonfunctional feet. Chinese foot binding was then inflicted on young female children, with mothers performing the binding when girls were as young as five.

One result of Chinese foot binding was extreme pain. The first year of Chinese foot binding would result in breakage of four toes. They would knit back together in a deformed fashion, and young girls would have to walk solely on their heels to avoid walking on the painful toes. Chinese foot binding also inhibited normal growth of the feet so that the bound feet of grown women were extremely small.

In fact, the smaller the feet, the more aristocratic the woman seemed, so it soon became popular among the lower classes to compete with each other over whose daughter’s feet seemed the smallest. Because Chinese foot binding inhibited movement, girls often couldn’t perform the kind of work required in running a household. This magnified the position that Chinese girls were less preferable than boys, particularly among the lower classes, where work was needed to keep food on the table.

The practice of Chinese foot binding was outlawed in 1911. In China today, a woman binding her child’s feet would be subject to criminal charges of child abuse. However, the uselessness of girls is still a commonly held belief, particularly with the Chinese restriction on each family only having one child. It is considered far more fortunate to have a boy child, and this in part accounts for the many Chinese girls who are abandoned at orphanages.


good it is forbidden now

Thx God it is forbidden