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[–]mrhumpty2010 19 points20 points ago

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[–]Nutdip 9 points10 points ago

Welcome to 1990's internets. LOL

[–]xpingux 1 point2 points ago

Seems like a bad idea.

[–]Oh-No-That-Guy 0 points1 point ago

Those are some high arches

[–]Llamafuck 2 points3 points ago

Whats the benefits of doing that ?

[–]garamasala 4 points5 points ago

So you can look cool as fuck in the village with your tiny shoes, of course.

[–]JustAPoorBoy42 1 point2 points ago

Cannot walk very well so stays in kitchen.

[–]ABC_D 0 points1 point ago

pretty much actually.

[–]McSqueeze 1 point2 points ago

I believe women with tiny feet were considered attractive back then. It also made women more domestic since walking around like that would be very painful.

[–]mrminty 0 points1 point ago

If you can't walk very well/do chores, it means you must be wealthy enough to afford servants.

[–]Hex-Kitty 0 points1 point ago

Keeps women from running away?

[–]CellularBeing 0 points1 point ago

Control women. Same with things like corsets. Fucked up thing is high heals and tight dresses have the same effect, but do women care? Nope. And then they complain they want equal rights. That, I think is a pretty adequate sub WTF here.

[–]Mooken 2 points3 points ago

Damn I missed it again, can you post it just one more time?

[–]Soapz -1 points0 points ago

Isn't this Japanese?

[–]hustlecat 0 points1 point ago

Definitely Chinese.

[–]Soapz 0 points1 point ago

Weird, I got taught this in my high school Japanese class by my teacher.

[–]hustlecat -1 points0 points ago

Hmmm. Could easily be a cultural comparison sort of things. :) As far as I know the Japanese did not practice anything of this sort. Geisha had their own rituals, but foot binding was not one of them, and I can't think of any other group there might be comparisons made.

[–]shmooshmoo 0 points1 point ago

The arches are broken too.

"If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever." - Feng Xun

[–]roughneck45 0 points1 point ago

Can't be unseen......fuck

[–]aldude3 0 points1 point ago

Do people with a foot fetish think of this as mega mega ultra hot or gross?

[–]Siempre818 0 points1 point ago

All women would do this if you didn't you probably wouldn't have gotten married. Feet were like a taboo for men and they would never see women's feet they would always be covered even during sex. Men thought it was sexy to want something like a women's foot but never really be able to get it. Women start using the shoes at a really young age, can't remember how young, and start binding slowly wearing smaller and smaller shoes. It was banned to wear them a long time ago but some old women still have them because unbinding the feet would be as painful as binding in the first place... Sorry I'm writing all this by memory and my memory is pretty bad so I'm sorry if it's not perfect.

[–]YoungandPregnant -1 points0 points ago

This makes me so sad.

[–]onlynameavailable 0 points1 point ago

The things people do for 'beauty' o.0

[–]CassandraVindicated 1 point2 points ago

Don't think the loss of mobility was lost on the men.

[–]i_yurt_on_your_face 0 points1 point ago

oouhh mygode so vely hote. I am a goinguh to culeam my pants

[–]idomeyoudoyou 3 points4 points ago

Dafuq?

[–]Denog -2 points-1 points ago

New and exciting.