When my family was touring old people’s homes in Taiwan in the 70s I saw some old ladies with bound feet. Not a pleasant memory.
Apparently the smell is something…special. Congrats!
Sure, it probably goes without saying, but have you circumsized her yet?
I once saw, in a medical textbook, a picture of bound feet with the wrappings taken off! :eek:
Of course, the same book showed a picture of a Western woman’s skeleton, one who had worn a corset from childhood onward. Sheesh, the way those lower rib bones were cramped in, no wonder women fainted at the drop of a hat.
I saw an HBO thing (or something) about the chinese women’s feet. They interviewed a number of old women who’d been bound for so many years. It was shocking to say the least.
I picked up Dorothy Ko’s Every Step a Lotus, an interesting book:
It tries to put the best possible spin on the practice, trying to present it as the woman’s own choice, and not well understood by outsiders, but it seems a tough sell to me. It’s impossible for me to see these woman as anything but unfortunate victims of fashion and custom. Considering her POV, Ko focuses on the fine, embroidered shoes, and only has two pictures and one sketch of the deformed feet.
Have you taken off the plank of wood that’s flattening her forehead yet?
I also hope you are forcing her to watch violent cartoons
Damn you guys are liberal!
My toddler doesn’t have the luxury of cosmetic improvements. She is already in the factory making shoes. I’m just worried that her little fingers will be to big by age 6 to do a proper job on the threading machine. What will I do then? Do you know how hard it is to employ a kid with no career advantage like that?
And reading the above somehow makes me really sad that these jokes are still all too true.
-Tcat
Have you consulted with your local pimp?
what?
Don’t worry, by the time she’s six, she’ll be just the right size to stand over a cauldron of boiling silk worm cocoons without burning her arms (too badly) as she scoops them up to unravel with her bare fingers.
Me too.
Why all the old school stuff? Take her down to the plastic surgeon and get her a set of double D’s*…
*Yeah, I know. It skeeved me out as I typed it, too. It must be cultural because it seems more disturbing than the other things listed.
But how is the at home subjudgcation going? You can’t start that too young. Make sure she’s served last at meals, if at all. Make her clean up after her brothers and of course, you. Let her know that she’s only alive on sufferance and that she can be sold into prostitution at any time…
(my puter is doing something odd, my font and print is really weird for this post)
Y’all still allow yourselves to carry your daughters to term?
Eeewwwwwwww.
Don’t you know that she can still be employed as an air checker in coal mines? Canaries are cheaper and smaller, yes, but they don’t have much of a warning system. Kids are much more cost-effective.
Unless I need someone to wax my floor, I just tend to leave all of mine in the woods to fend for themselves.
I will give you 4 goats and a yak for your daughter. She will make a fine wife for my son.
Yaks I have, they came with my wife’s dowry. But I’ll take the goats. Instead of the goats…hmmm…have you a daughter?
4 goats AND a yak??? Good grief, inflation is a pain.
My daughter’s going to kill you all in a few years. She’ll make me so proud!