Early Chinese Ladies Walk in Woe

Lass today have so much to be grateful for, especially now that they are living in a more or less sensible circle. Yes, the battle for gender equality is still on, but at least, they don't have to lead the protest with an aching sole like early Chinese lasses. They can walk anywhere they desire and try to attain a lifelong dream.

Centuries ago, up to the early 1912, Chinese lasses have to suffer from great grief while their feet were forcefully bound using a white cloth. Their mothers passed on this culture because they once believed this binding as a symbol pride and social hierarchy among lasses. Even with disabled and deformed feet, girls as young as five years old need to put up with the effort and struggle to walk.

Two theories elucidate the footbinding tradition among Chinese lasses. They say that by binding the feet, lasses are then restricted to their homes; others claim that it was a form of primitive fashion then, when ancient people believe that smaller feet means you're beautiful and attactive. If lasses definitely want to ensure marriage in the future, she had to submit herself to gangrene infection, paralyzed gait, and even muscle atrophy. As ridiculous as it sounds, early Chinese guys believe that lasses with lotus gait make them move like a bonafide virgin-- a reason they get sexually turned on with smaller feet.