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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Walking on Bound Feet
I loved this Deseret News blog entry I saw today by Kristine Fredrickson. She discusses the traditional Chinese practice of binding a woman's feet for beauty. She describes in detail the ways that women would disfigure their daughters' feet for the sake of "beauty". Then she makes a very interesting comparison to our modern American views of beauty and the ways in which we bind and tuck and starve and add to our bodies for the sake of "beauty". Very interesting.
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That is so interesting to me, but for different reasons. It makes me think of putting Jimmy's shoes on him night after night. I know it is true Mother Love (for if I didn't, actually wouldn't be able to walk!) but it is hard. It was/is probably equally hard for the foot binding mothers, who truly believed they were doing the best thing for their daughters. It is sad that so much of our social acceptance can be based on our outward appearance.
There are definitely some good comparisons here. In the past year, I've come to know someone whose husband has clearly a very warped perception of beauty (he is LDS by the way). He asked his wife some years ago to get breast enhancement surgery, so she has this amazingly large chest, and then he pressures her to work out a lot so that she can have a very toned, thin body. It is so sad, because she clearly needs his approval so much that she is willing to do all this for his perverted desire to have his wife look like a model.
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