#foot binding

[haggishlyhagging]

One asks the same questions again and again, over a period of years, in the course of a lifetime. The questions have to do with people and what they do — the how and the why of it. How could the Germans have murdered 6,000,000 Jews, used their skins for lampshades, taken the gold out of their teeth? How could white people have bought and sold black people, hanged them and castrated them? How could "Americans" have slaughtered the Indian nations, stolen the land, spread famine and disease? How can the Indochina genocide continue, day after day, year after year? How is it possible? Why does it happen?

As a woman, one is forced to ask another series of hard questions: Why everywhere the oppression of women throughout recorded history? How could the Inquisitors torture and burn women as witches? How could men idealize the bound feet of crippled women? How and why?

The bound foot existed for 1,000 years. In what terms, using what measure, could one calculate the enormity of the crime, the dimensions of the transgression, the amount of cruelty and pain inherent in that 1,000-year herstory? In what terms, using what vocabulary, could one penetrate to the meaning, to the reality, of that 1,000-year herstory?

Here one race did not war with another to acquire food, or land, or civil power; one nation did not fight with another in the interest of survival, real or imagined; one group of people in a fever pitch of hysteria did not destroy another. None of the traditional explanations or justifications for brutality between or among peoples applies to this situation. On the contrary, here one sex mutilated (enslaved) the other in the interest of the art of sex, male-female harmony, role-definition, beauty.

Consider the magnitude of the crime.

Millions of women, over a period of 1,000 years, were brutally crippled, mutilated, in the name of erotica.

Millions of human beings, over a period of 1,000 years, were brutally crippled, mutilated, in the name of beauty.

Millions of men, over a period of 1,000 years, reveled in love-making devoted to the worship of the bound foot.

Millions of men, over a period of 1,000 years, worshiped and adored the bound foot.

Millions of mothers, over a period of 1,000 years, brutally crippled and mutilated their daughters for the sake of a secure marriage.

Millions of mothers, over a period of 1,000 years, brutally crippled and mutilated their daughters in the name of beauty.

But this thousand-year period is only the tip of an awesome, fearful iceberg: an extreme and visible expression of romantic attitudes, processes, and values organically rooted in all cultures, then and now. It demonstrates that man's love for woman, his sexual adoration of her, his human definition of her, his delight and pleasure in her, require her negation: physical crippling and psychological lobotomy. That is the very nature of romantic love, which is the love based on polar role definitions, manifest in herstory as well as in fiction—he glories in her agony, he adores her deformity, he annihilates her freedom, he will have her as sex object, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it. Brutality, sadism, and oppression emerge as the substantive core of the romantic ethos. That ethos is the warp and woof of culture as we know it.

-Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

#andrea dworkin #foot binding #female oppression #romantic ethos #male domination #human cruelty

[shihlun]

#china #chinese #19th century photography #binding feet #Foot binding #Footbinding

[newbambisleepaddict]

bambi needs footbinding heels.

#bambi sleep #bambi beauty #Foot binding #mind conditioning #brainwashed #hypno toy

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Lotus shoes, 1800s, China.

#foot binding #1800s #antique #traditional #chinese

[kemetic-dreams]

This photograph taken in the 1890s captures a Chinese woman who had her feet bound since childhood 1890s captures a Chinese woman

Footbinding was a traditional Chinese practice involving the breaking and tight binding of young girls' feet to alter their shape and size. The resulting modified feet were referred to as "lotus feet," while the shoes designed for these feet were called "lotus shoes." In ancient China, having bound feet was regarded as a symbol of social status and feminine beauty. However, footbinding inflicted great pain, restricted women's mobility, and led to lifelong disabilities. It was not until the early 20th century that the practice began to decline due to anti-footbinding campaigns.... footnotes This photograph taken in the 1890s captures a Chinese woman who had her feet bound since childhood.

#kemetic dreams #chinese #chinese foot binding #foot binding #asian #asian culture #wow #wow wow wow #wow scenery #meow wow #like wow #oh my #whoa #woah #oh wow

[ancientorigins]

Throughout history, men and women alike have suffered pain and agony in the name of beauty - from the practices of body modification in indigenous tribes throughout the world, to suffocatingly tight corsets in Europe, and modern practices of piercings, tattoos, and various forms of cosmetic surgery.

#China #Chinese #women #bound feet #footbinding #foot binding #ancient #tradition #body medication #history #ancient origins

[no-hands]

#tiny feet #three inch jinlian #modern foot binding #chinese foot binding #chinese footbinding #foot binding #footbinding

[grammymumzy]

PAIN AND BEAUTY

1880 Chinese Embroidered Silk Shoe made for a lady with the Qing customary bound feet.

Find out about the now outlawed practise of foot binding here… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

http://www.extantgowns.com/

#chinese shoes #foot binding #footwear #embroidery #silk shoe #silk #embroidered silk #1880s fashion #1880s #1880 fashion

[dbaydenny]

Her bound feet undone

affect her walk, bind the ages

to her quiet soul,

prove the tradition not lost,

pretty things oft suffer some.

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D W y

#poetry #tanka #foot binding

[el-secreto-emporium]

#books #recommended holiday reading #novels #ancient Chinese culture #foot binding #not a romance

[unboundboxes]

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 562: Guardian Angels

Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories: Issue # 562: Guardian Angels

The lecture theatre has emptied of everyone save Xan and Edith, as their granddaughter, Heyem, unaware that they are her grandparents, and not part of this time, struts towards them to lecture them about talking in her class. Xan’s back story, set in Hong Kong (3992)

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#China #Edith MehXian #feminism #feminist fiction #Foot binding #grandparents #graphic story #Guild Master #Herstory #Heyem Merek #Hong Kong #science fiction #Time Agent #Transgender #Unbound Boxes Limping Gods #women #Xan Medani

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lecture tips: Be naked and wet for the most convincing rhetoric.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #season 1 #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #lan xichen #look it never specified whether or not they kept their robes on in the cold springs #and visually its a lot easier to show welts when they are covered up #this is just the fantasy China equivalent of hanging out in the boys locker room together #A binding moment for some. A test of will (to not start fighting) and endurance (god do you remember locker rooms) #i have yet to encorperate audio into this series (YET) but #for the beat reaults; wwx is giving his speech in the ‘number 16: burger king foot lettuce’ intonation and tenor #for the most faithful to my vision results: wwx is giving his speech in the same intonation & tenor as ‘number 15: burgerking foot lettuce’ #other note: JC carrying wwx after he gets beat makes me get a lil teary. I imagine he doesnt get the oppertunity at yunmeng very often #im really really soft for the yunmeng sibilings. Tragic as they are/become…. #also ack….you *know* it hurts wwx sense of needing to be a protector and not a burden #He has yet to learn to be loved is to lean on each other!

[a-room-of-my-own]

It's impossible to find a video about fashion history without an airhead who self-identifies as a fashion historian - because she LARPs on week-ends and owns a sewing machine - inserting a 5 minutes tirade in defense of corsets.

#but why women wore it for centuries #GIRL #do you want to talk about foot binding? #because that happened for like a thousand years #or genital mutilation #or breast ironing #or forced feeding #all done by women for centuries #enforced by women on little girls #corsets literally caused chlorosis #and other health issues #some mothers forced their daughter to sleep in a tight corset and would tie their hands at night so they couldn't take it off #how fucking dense must you be to be unable to understand that when a woman's only value is in what men have decided is beautiful #she will torture herself and others to reach this status #every culture has something done to girl that ranges from painful to horribly mutilating #either to make them attractive to men #or pure in the eyes of men #it's everywhere #and it has nothing to do with women being 'stupid' #but with fucking patriarchal oppression #go wear corsets in a public park pretending you're Ariel at 38 years old but spare us your opinions gooooood

[mycological-mariner]

Ever since my haircut, people I’ve know for a minutes or for the last three years have started referring to me with completely non-gendered language. Like, “So you’ll be our barw— barperson for tonight.” “Sounds like your an individual of many talents.” “You’re an older… uh, sibling, right?” “Hey, watch out, stupid bi— cunt!”

#I haven’t actually changed anything else btw… #and I haven’t told a great number of people either #I’m fine with this #it makes me laugh #the stage combat I don’t bind because ow. #but even then the guy I work with has just switched to using the most painfully gender neutral phrases as much as possible #‘swordperson’ sounds so weird tho #like. swordsman is fine…? #however ppl still insist on saying ‘actress’ when I myself have never used actress to refer to myself #actor’s fine. say actor. it’s all good. #even if it comes up in conversation #’oh I did a plane game as voice actor a long while back’ ‘oh an actress! my daughter works in theatre but she’s not actress!’ #mate #why #why is it this one word #silly buggers #I’ll have to grow a foot long beard before I can shake ‘actress’ huh

[steampoweredskeleton]

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#delete later #i have three medical appointments in the work day in the next three weeks #one on Thursday then two mid/late January and i know that its good bc i need these appointments but i get so #anxious that ppl ay work are mad at me for having so many #im also scared about thirsdays one bc its for my ankle and hand pain and ironically the hand is way better and the ankle is also #more stable. something clicked again a couple days ago and fixed the pain in half of ky foot. no idea what happened there but #the click itself hirt like a bitch which is new. most of my pain doesnt start with a click and most clicks are painless #so fun #im just in a permanent state of being afraid i wont be taken seriously. my physio wanted a scan on my foot so om gonna #relay that but like idk what theyre gonna say. also if they do want to swnd me for a scan that's gpnna be ANOTHER appointment #so fuck me i guess. at the very leasy its not like severe psin any more so they wont send me to a and e for an x ray like they did #with my hip that one time. that would fucking suck to explain tp my manager #hey julia im fine but ive been sent ro rhe hospital for a scan so i guess ill be back when im back? #fuck me im anxious. and i hace so much apprenticeship work tp do i want to scream #also was distracted by my aching hands bc often they just ache abd successfully triggered myself so bow time to play what #is actual acge and what is remembered ache oh joy #one of the other appointments is gender clinic appointment abd im hoping to get referred for top surgery now ive been on t #for 9 months. waiting list gonna be like four fucking years but debating saving like mad abd going private bc jesus Christ #i cant bind bc of sensory problems and constantly aching ribs and last time i taped i ripped chunks of skin off so kinda #think i shouldn't do that again but like it sucks. not as bad now that my voice is dropping abd shit but still not fun #we'll see!

[ancientorigins]

Throughout history, men and women alike have suffered pain and agony in the name of beauty - from the practices of body modification in indigenous tribes throughout the world, to suffocatingly tight corsets in Europe, and modern practices of piercings, tattoos, and various forms of cosmetic surgery. 

#tradition #foot binding #history #tribes