Footbinding
Just yesterday, I read an article concerning foot-binding that persisted in China for over a millennium. Here, in this notebook, I'm going to express my thoughts about this practice in history. For one, it should never have existed. It's a symbol of gender inequality, which I find unpalatable. It's doesn't just lower the status of women at the time but also degraded their health. This practice could legitimately paralyze them! Evidence have been shown that many females had to sit on wheelchairs for the majority of their life. Though, it's a symbol of nobility at the time, especially among elite families, there's no benefit behind it. Documentaries have reflected that the last members who bounded their feet would never do it again if they were given another life. Whoever initiated the idea must have been out of his or her mind! I also read the part about how the females who has the shorter feet(around 3 inches) were destined to be chosen by an elite husband compared to ones with bigger feet. I was like, "what the fuck?!". Damn, that whole tradition was fucked up. What's the point really? Does bounded feet look attractive? Most people I have interviewed think not haha. Good thing that practice was banned several decades ago. I'm a feminist so this whole tradition aroused rage in me. Haters back off.
