The Horrors Behind Foot Binding

[@JustDeLuca]

Imagine you're an innocent three year old and having your feet broken and bound. You get married and then it becomes unfashionable. Your husband leaves you but not only that but people start to humiliate and abuse you for something you had no control over, that you suffered terrible pain for, for other people's beauty standards. It's heartbreaking. What a horrible existence. Those poor ladies.

[@joannestark3023]

And not old enough to understand the "why" behind it. At three, all you know is it hurts, and you're scared and confused about what's happening. My Gosh, how awful for those poor women!

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

it's another good example why scientists believe humans didn't have empathy up untill relatively recently.. no mother in her right mind would put their innocent child trough something like this if she had actual empathy for her child

[@JustDeLuca]

@@litchtheshinigami8936 I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the new research topic. I certainly couldn't do it to my daughter. I feel guilty over things that happened with my children years ago that weren't my fault. Imagine being the cause of your child's pain and trauma. Hell no.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Misusing the words miss / lady is beyond criminaI (also the uploader misusing the words emperor / empress) and soon to be banned -- all wimim (and all simps) are the exact opposite of any such big terms (and the opposite of compliments) so edit out those words, and uploader needs to edit the video! This is like karma for breeding, for subjecting their offspring to most awful sacriIege by not having a c-section, for trying to find simps even though all wimim are not love material and no simp loves wimim anyway, and for being impostors, for buying or wearing things not meant for them but only for me etc... I am the true and only Lady / Empress / Miss / Mrs / Ms / Queen / Princess / Goddess / Diva / Countess / Dame etc in existence protected by the official security organizations ClA and NSA since day one and the most protected being, and the only being meant to be loved truly and wear those pretty / glittery / royal-themed items and makeup and gold / jewelry / diamonds -- soon all impostors and all term / name misuse and all breeding / _ with wimim will be banned, as will all other crimes!

[@livratanska4949]

@@FrozenMermaid666 lmao what even is ‘wimin’?

[@jxn1056]

"young bones are soft and break more easily" sent shivers down my spine! 😢😲

[@krollpeter]

It's the essence of the Chinese upbringing system in general.

[@tarinia1115]

I couldn't watch it after this sentence.

[@care_channel1661]

Me tooo

[@kazumakiryuu2668]

olympics

[@mariannechemu2860]

All to Impress and be a symbol of honor to their fathers, then husbands back then. Harrowing. Completely horrible.

[@mrs.stringfellow7099]

My late grandma had binding feet. As a child, I always remembered she walked super slow and could only walk short distance with a walker. She walked funny and unbalanced. It looked so painful when seeing her washing her feet. They looked so strange to me. I can’t imagine how she raised 8 children. Farming, cooking, and more. No electricity or gas....My other grandma didn’t have to bind her feet. She was much healthier and happy and lived a longer life. What a horrible history.

[@luciaescobarz]

That poor woman 🥺

[@misakichoi636]

That’s so sad to hear :( May i ask why only one of your grandmas had to get it done and not both of them?

[@handooru389]

@@misakichoi636 different cultures i assume

[@jazzysugar3777]

Be pregnant with bound feet must have been horrible

[@mrs.stringfellow7099]

@@misakichoi636 I was very young, I never asked them why. They both passed away many years ago. I assume because my other grandma is about 10 years younger. The culture had changed.

[@blinkjetimmersion]

Imagine going through the agonising pain of having your feet broken, just to have iron lotus feet and told you're not good enough still.

[@heatherunicorn-sparkles1724]

seriously heartbreaking.

[@minarvatripathi9561]

@blinkjetimmersion not only broken but pieces of glass and bone china were inserted among broken fingers to set infection and toes dissolve and fall off due to these sharp objects .... couldn't even imagine that pain of broken toes with glass among them tied with dressing that was set tighter after every binding session.😔😔

[@CcC-ct9tb]

Jesus Christ

[@justinballenger605]

@@CcC-ct9tbI know buddy 😟😥

[@ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv]

Some demographics of Women get subjugation all the time. It's just less obvious, more emotional. Less brutal. But I don't think this mentality ended. So many women End up hobbled and written off young. They went through a physical mutilation. But society can emotionally mutilate people too.

[@michelleshi5116]

Hello, 100% ethnic Chinese here. My great-grandmother had her feet bound. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet her in person. From what I know, foot binding was mainly done not only because it was considered attractive at the time, but also because it restricted women from leaving their homes. This made Chinese women unable to leave their husbands. I'm so grateful that I live in this era, because as a woman I can't imagine the excruciating pain that I'd face if I were born just a few generations earlier.

[@raerae2964]

woww

[@lydiaaponte7868]

And not only their feets are deformed and Just looking at the make feel pain and sorrow for this womans, also those feets are not attractive at all. Even the men know it. It's like you said, it was a way for the to control the life and her movements in other words their way to restraint and have Total control. Poor womans, thanks God that finally it was abolished.

[@Ari-ig4vk]

Same here, as a British woman i would have been forced into a corset if i were born 100 or so years earlier, but i know that is not nearly as awful and horrific as the foot binding.

[@ariadne0w1]

@@Ari-ig4vk oh come off it, corsets were a completely normal structural undergarments, used in different forms for hundreds of years by women of all social statuses. A few women tight-laced, but that was not the norm. Generally, corsets support the breasts from below, which doesn't stress the shoulders like bras do. They provide core support when lifting heavy things, distributed the weight of heavy skirts, and created the ideal silhouette through padding at the bust and hips, not cinching the waist. Bernadette Banner and Karolina Zebrowski have serveral good videos that debunk this myth. Think padded underwire bra, not torture device. Not everyone is going to like them, but most women would be completely comfortable wearing one.

[@ariadne0w1]

I've heard that was also a status thing - you can afford to have a daughter/wife who can't help around the house, you have servants to do everything for her.

[@Icaanseeyou]

I hate what these parents did to their daughter it’s sickening and sad

[@arianah9532]

@@suzygirl1843 they didn’t really do it to the men. it was a beauty standard for women

[@Lordknowswhere]

And FGM...

[@Icaanseeyou]

They knew it was painful yet they still did it I bet that they cried and screamed for it to stop

[@veronicaperez-rx5ef]

@@Icaanseeyou In their culture they are raised to be obedient. I’m sure they cried but did as told :(

[@Icaanseeyou]

I know it’s just horrifying to imagine a gir screaming and crying as her feet are broken and deformed

[@Ash-hi5hy]

All because one dude had a tiny foot fetish.....I feel so awful for all those women.

[@adamburling9551]

The kind of thing communism creates when one dude is put up high like a God.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

It was also a symbol of wealth, you were telling everyone that your wife, daughters had no need to work as you could employ servants.

[@Barabel22]

@@adamburling9551 Um, you’re being ignorant, communism OUTLAWED foot binding in China(even though it was a dying off practice by the 1930s).

[@cocoanbella]

I heard it was also appealing to men because it meant your wife couldn't run away from you

[@TheHellmo]

@@cocoanbella I hate the patriarchy :)

[@acmm315]

This is torture. I cant imagine the pain a child has to go through.

[@Sc-dd6hb]

As someone who broke ONE toe as an adult, let me tell you I SCREAMED, it hurt SO much! I can’t even imagine what those poor girls felt.

[@serenityb5816]

I can’t understand why they would be ridiculed. It’s horribly sad. They need and deserve compassion.

[@sheldonshniklefritz95]

communists have no compassion,no empathy, "for the greater good" they say as they literaly trample the downtrodden

[@yakkityyak9336]

Mao mandated that kind of treatment and he didn't spare them from hard labor in the fields. they were supposed to unbind their feet but of course the feet would not regrow and the women suffered even morel

[@janetpendlebury6808]

@@sheldonshniklefritz95 This practise started in the 10th century.

[@jessieblossom3874]

How can any man find deformed broken feet attractive? It's just weird.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

No different really to the European men who thought 18 inch waists were attractive and women were forced into corsets to try and reach that ideal. And the African Kayan Lahwi tribe tribes that thought long necks were attractive and the children from the age of 5 were forced to put rings on their necks to stretch them, that practice still goes on.

[@CirylDrawsStuff]

This makes me look at my own feet with so much gratitude and love. I can’t even begin to imagine the torture…

[@b3nsy]

SAME

[@normanteio6916]

Same, I feel so bad for those women who had to go through that at a young age..

[@Raveen1]

Same, those poor women..

[@cobzff5769]

And now you have foot fetish welcome

[@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg]

@@cobzff5769 thats a different thing..........

[@ejiuan007]

My late grandma, whom past away more than 2 decades ago, had her feet bound when she was young. And when she was older, for some unknown reason she had it unbounded. At young age, I saw how deformed my grandma feet were. Yet, it always amazed me by how fast and how far she could walk with those deformed tiny feet. Getting a shoes to fit those unbounded deformed feet had always been a challenge. In the early days, there were still shops or craft men whom handmade shoes specially for bounded feet and those that were unbounded. But with the decreased population of bounded feet, the demand also decreased and the trade died off eventually. My grandma had to end up getting children’s size shoes and not all able to fit her unique shaped feet. This documentary really makes me miss my grandma. She was such a woman of great character being able to live through the culture of those days.

[@hehe2419]

@Retro Rose how do you know the person that commented, that this is their culture? You mean their ancestors culture? Even that comment would be ignorant because how do you know this person ancestors "all" practice this culture or even at all. We all come from ancestors that had different cultures that is not our culture we practice today nor does it mean our ancestor even did. So you telling this person that THEIR culture is this or that like you know them makes you look very small minded, arrogant and ignorant.

[@hehe2419]

@Retro Rose The fact that out of all what that person wrote that's what you thought to type. God bless you and open this person eyes. Also saw your channel and see you like being ignorant and hateful in comments, therefore i will not be reading nor replying anything from you. so please don't waste your time.

[@madison__baylee]

what a touching memory to share with us all, thank you.

[@Crimetvuk]

Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@hhholly]

Awww thank u 🙏

[@TheVeggiekat]

When I was a kid my mom used to buy me boots and shoes in size 7.5. They were too small but she didn’t want me growing up and ending up with big feet like my grandma, who wore a size 11. I constantly had blisters and now my toes all bend in weird ways. Once I was able to start buying my own shoes I did and now wear a 9.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

American or UK size?

[@Sirianstar10]

Horrible!!!

[@MiamiChica]

I feel you. I’m like 5’5” and when I was a kid, my mom made me wear a lot of high heels for social gatherings. My feet became relatively small compared to my height, so I am very prone to losing a bit of balance or tripping.

[@amberrose1108]

That's child abuse! I'm so sorry she was so stupid!

[@Kason05MB]

I'm very sorry to hear of this 😞

[@geralt8394]

I cannot believe someone was like "you know what, deformed girl feet do be hella hot" and nobody gave him a good smack across the head just baffles me

[@welsan2074]

It's the emperor, everyone's a bootlicker towards the emperor, because if he felt like it, you could be better in life than others

[@AcediaIX]

It's the woman that wanted this, and men just followed, women thought these was to make them more Noble like and the men was like "That's probably it" and just thriught it was normal

[@MrNicePotato]

Because it was the emperor. And no one would smack men's head because they objectified women, because that was the norm. Parents deformed their daughters into whatever form the rich families like so that they get married and could promote the social status of the whole family.

[@Fau.]

@@AcediaIX some women wanted the shape just to live better lives but that was only few. The rest were all forced into it by men, and other women who were physically and emotionally abused by the men. No woman would willingly submit to a man unless she was mentally fucked up, which was the case. That's also why internalised misogyny is a thing.

[@inspire734]

Probably had a foot fetish for it.

[@whatdoinamethischannel9749]

The fact that she remembers that from all those years ago is heartbreaking

[@sashypooh409]

It was so horrifying, how could she forget??

[@ejedwards988]

If you've ever broken a bone you understand how and why she wouldn't forget.

[@crescent3107]

It's called trauma

[@raphaelcarvalhobezerra6913]

Traumas cant be forgotten

[@wertiaaudit5746]

We all have our trauma we cant forget.

[@fireemblemaddict128]

My maternal grandmother was born in the era of footbinding. She however got lucky. My great grandparents thought the practice was retarded and didn’t bind her.

[@a-levelking8610]

so people really did have brains back then

[@brigittecavanagh4291]

So happy she had great-grandparents that were ethicals....Bravo.

[@HinataUchihaInuzuka9]

Small comment, the r-word is actually an ableist slur used against mostly the autism community and against people with Down syndrome so I recommend not using it.

[@krstglsm]

@@HinataUchihaInuzuka9 Yeah I totally agree. Calling the people in the video r*tarded would associate the mentally disabled with something this horrifying... The people who did foot bindings to their own daughters are not r*tarded. They are Disgusting Enablers of a 'socially acceptable' trend that forced women to achieve Unrealistic Body Standads.

[@MacDodle]

@@a-levelking8610 people has had brains since the beginning of time. It's just they are the minority while the retarded ones are the majority.

[@lindybarnes641]

I can’t fathom how millions of people hated their own children enough to torture them in one of the most horrific ways imaginable.

[@kalevala29]

I don't know if it was so much that they hated them. but girls were considered useless, literally just another mouth to feed. When a girl married, she was no longer a member of her family. She became a member of her husband's family where her only worth was to bear sons. Starting at age 4 or 5, it must have become apparent to little girls that their childhood was over, and life would be one of suffering, where they didn't even have control over their own bodies.

[@AmeliaEarhart53756]

I agree, and they thought they loved their kids but they didn't.

[@J.M..]

This is an ignorant statement. They were following their cultural practice in order to give their daughters the best chance at having a secure future. I agree that the practice is inhumane, but it was not done with malicious intent.

[@argent5196]

@@J.M..yes but I think humans have a natural feeling to seeing children in pain. I feel like if you can ignore the pain of a child ur evil

[@J.M..]

@@argent5196 Unfortunately, the alternative would have been equally as cruel. Their daughter would grow up to be ostracized by everyone and have nobody to take care of her and no way for her to support herself.

[@markalexander3659]

I always thought foot binding was just tight bandages to minimise growth, but this is fucking GRUESOME. It would be less cruel to just amputate most of the foot.

[@cloakedingravity]

I wonder how many women secretly removed parts of their feet to fit the strict standards, like Gold Lotus.

[@Ashley-vs8nu]

Some did cut off pieces. Intentionally or otherwise.

[@lisaspikes4291]

Me too. I was an adult before I found out how they actually did it! As if just binding the feet wasn’t bad enough, they actually broke the bones! Unbelievable!😩

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and turn to the Lord. We must be born again to enter Heaven.

[@Midnight-Starfish]

@@monicafox3737 Kind of irrelevant to the topic at hand but go off, I guess...

[@sparkyskooter911]

Honestly, this is so evil. I don't care what era you're in or what the beauty standards are, to intentionally break the bones on the feet of your toddler and watch them cry out, and endure so much pain, you'd have to be seriously sick to actually sit back and watch that. Then basically tell them to suck it up or else they won't be pretty. My heart breaks for the women/children who endured this.

[@Itwasnme]

Yeah, but perhaps in the minds of this parents they were doing it for the child's future. These are the dangers of an unenlightened mind, truly sad.

[@Mini-Toast_]

That isn't due to some inherent sickness of the parents. It's very easy to look back and see how horrible it was for those young girls. But back then it was not only accepted, but promoted. Marriage back then isn't how we see it today. For a woman, it meant survival. I'm sure there were plenty of mothers and fathers whose heart broke at hearing the pain of their young girls, but thought it was ultimately for the sake of the daughter. Believing that it was good their daughters would have security after they were gone. I'm sure there are multiple things future generations will look back at and think was absolutely atrocious from our era. Like sitting back and eating animals we know have been tortured, but can't be bothered to give up Chic-Fil-A. But we all move through the society of our time.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Back then some might have thought not binding her feet and making her pretty much unmarriageable was even more evil/cruel.

[@xXPHO3NIXFYR33Xx]

I totally agree with you. There was some serious brainwashing of the parents going on by the people in power i believe. It would have been best to try to find a way to not have to do that to your child’s feet if at all possible. And protect the child from harm, period. To purposefully harm a child in this way is not loving and supportive and ensuring a good future. It is causing deformity and damage to a healthy human body. This is a result of a desire to “Control”. Control females, girls, women, by a dominate factor that moved forward with a plan that would ensure “Control”. Some people can not so easily see through the veil of complete bs. It isn’t love at all to do such a thing to a child. Doing this out of love and desire for security of the child is hogwash and a lie. God bless you lady. ✨🙏✨💕

[@xXPHO3NIXFYR33Xx]

@@Mini-Toast_ At 8:07 in the video they state that the woman had to wrap her feet everyday or be “beaten by her parents” and her foot, toes, bones, were broken and her feet was burning. The parents were accepting and forceful of the practice if they did this. That is sickness of the parents totally and 100 percent in my mind to do this. Beating your child is never ok to get them to do things. Your statement is almost as if you see something justified here in this video. Watch it again. It is evil. This isn’t survival. It’s evil. You think this is ok or something in the name of survival? It isn’t. It’s the result of a people being “controlled” by a controlling power. And brainwashed. I personally think entire masses of people should have protested, revolted and rebelled. Nothing is justifiable about this practice at all. Zero. And not all animals suffer before being turned into Chik-Fil-A and KFC. And even if they did. What do you think happens in nature when a lion, tiger, bear or wolf has to eat? You think the animals feel utopia as they are being killed by a animal seeking to kill it to survive and not starve to death? You think prehistoric humans killed animals for survival and hoped the animals felt glorious while dying? I agree that animals shouldn’t suffer. But your comment makes no sense to me at all. Sorry.

[@leslijones4443]

I think this was more about control than beauty. A hobbled woman couldn’t run away, even if she was being abused. Just another way to control and dominate women, while projecting propaganda that it made one desirable ....

[@shortstacked1980]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@jazzlynnicole1906]

omg

[@kipklop975]

Also it shows a sign of status. That a higher class woman need not need to work/have her feet even touch the ground - servants would wait on her.

[@lzbhcvm6747]

They should be controlled because China is a very conservative patriarchal society

[@speedy1z711]

Of course your a woman...

[@suehackett9621]

I have broken both ankles and have hard ware in both. It nearly killed me to learn to walk again. I can’t imagine the pain of this cruel experience.

[@ebonydarkness]

My Chinese parents always foot size-shamed me when I was a child, telling me I got a wart because my feet were too big, and that my grandmother's feet were smaller than mine, which I doubted the truth of considering she walked normally. Ironically in my Canadian middle school's math class I was an outlier in having the smallest shoe size in the class. This is how warped their expectations of what feet were "supposed" to look like were.

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and believe in the Gospel.. we must be born again to enter Heaven Christ has died and risen so that we can have eternal life through Him.

[@sillysillygoose111]

@@monicafox3737 what

[@XsraidersX]

@@monicafox3737 what

[@ianybanez6884]

@@monicafox3737 what

[@sata9203]

@@monicafox3737 what

[@kiyablaise]

All I'm hearing is that men started this, men left women when it was no longer "fashionable" and men who then decided to then mock these women they originally tortured! This is disgusting! Those poor women!

[@silverpurkat]

@Gary Allen honestly that’s in most old cultures from Muslims to Christians and other religions. It’s all about man’s control, manipulation and procreation of women.

[@makylamann-brown3371]

19:34

[@xxkarlawesomex]

All only to please men in hopes for marriage 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@speedy1z711]

Of course your a woman...

[@Aziruf]

@@speedy1z711 😂

[@allygenelove433]

Sh*t like this, makes me feel so very very grateful for the place and century I was born into...

[@averagefan2958]

I was born in China and I grew up just fine as a girl. So don't say "place" just say century

[@dianaval6082]

@@averagefan2958 agreed! We live in better times then before.

[@jfast8256]

@@averagefan2958 No, I will say place. I'm happy I wasn't born in China. Especially as a Uighur. I wouldn't ever want to live in a country run by communists.

[@placebo_effect]

Yeah same

[@placebo_effect]

@@averagefan2958 China is very controlled like there's not even toilets, you can't own cars freely, you don't get to choose where you live when you want your own home... It's hell on earth I feel sorry for Chinese people

[@alexofalexyel]

Those women deserved so much better. My heart hurts for them.

[@Bookworm-tk1cz]

I'm from Taiwan. We learn about this in our history class. The teacher said that only the rich families have the foot-binding tradition, because poor families can't afford to have their daughter sitting in the house all day and not helping. So, in a way, it's better to be born in a poor family as a girl.

[@Goodiesfanful]

All the same, the practice did filter down to the working classes in China and even to the remotest villages, which made it very resistant to being eradicated from all of the country. Some working class people put off binding until the girl was older because they needed her to work, others only bound the feet of the eldest daughter and the younger ones did the work, and there must have been other variations.

[@5014chizuka]

Some rich culture are sick

[@王至明-j7z]

这位民国友人，你说的在一定程度上是对的，但是在当时的内地，一般一家不会只有一个女儿。可能大女儿二女儿之类的会像你说的一样不缠足，但是小女儿们则为了嫁出去实现阶级跃升，一般还是会被缠足的。

[@BerryKind]

Amen

[@LKH9Channel]

And when Imperial Japan colonized Taiwan during Qing Dynasty, this is the first thing to be banned and punished! Taiwan was lucky to be separated from China

[@SUN_MOON_SKY93]

When you think humans can’t possibly be anymore evil I keep finding stuff like this 😭the pain and suffering that woman had to go through the centuries is horrifying .

[@lzbhcvm6747]

This ended like many decades ago so why are you still complaining

[@batbebebe]

@@lzbhcvm6747 you're very ignorant lol

[@blue1584]

@@lzbhcvm6747 They aren’t “complaining”... it’s called having sympathy and empathy for those who suffered. If you watched the video you would know that there are still some women alive who suffered from this

[@iiamkodahh]

@@lzbhcvm6747 you are replying under everyone’s comment being ignorant. shut up.

[@lzbhcvm6747]

@@iiamkodahh I didn't stupid

[@alexisgrunden1556]

It was "helpful" in arranging marriages for young women at the time; the matchmakers and men understood that the face you have, that you are born with, is not something anyone can help. So instead of asking a father "How pretty is your daughter?" they would ask "How small are your daughter's feet?" It was a commitment to beauty and societal norms that could literally be measured. Even a girl with a plain or unattractive face could net a good marriage and prosperity for her family if she suffered enough, and her feet were tiny enough. That the girls were quite literally suffering in agony for years seemed to make no difference to the families, of the marrying sons or of the poor girls. That they had been crippled so as to be physically incapable of running away from an abusive husband seems to have been a selling point for the men, though not mentioned.

[@sometimessnarky1642]

Exactly. You hit the nail on the head with your comment.

[@MamasGroove]

Thankyou for saying it!

[@Chiara_Elena]

That makes so much sense! I haven't thought of it before.

[@blueyzblue]

I was thinking the same thing. The fact that they would be incapable of leaving if the marriage proved to be abusive, was probably one of the reasons, if not the major reason, that this horrible atrocity they called a "custom" was forced upon generations of these women.

[@alexisgrunden1556]

@@blueyzblue I don't know if it was a feature or a bug, but either way, I'm sure that abusers saw it as a bonus. They can't run away from you if they can't even run~

[@magicrealism5108]

At Chinatown in New York a Chinese woman told me to make my one year old wear shoes at all times, so that her feet wouldn’t grow… she warned me that otherwise her feet were going to be too big. This tradition still exists in different ways… parents force their daughters to wear smaller shoes which disfigures their toes

[@qiqijoanneleong3891]

:( I can't believe it is happening now. Imagine having your feet broken and strapped in a tight bandage just for beauty purposes.

[@Kieran.percussion]

Obviously everyone has different standards of beauty but I refuse to believe over 500 million chinese men have the same beauty standard, and even if they did, this is too horrible to force someone to hate their normal body enough to bind it

[@jiayizhao8738]

My great grandmother had her feet bound. She was born around 1910 in a rich family. I saw her mini feet and felt very strange. I couldn’t believe human feet could be in this shape. She passed away at the age of 96. I was too young to understand what kind of pain she had have to go through.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

There was an elderly woman I used to see in Chinatown (in San Francisco) at the market sometimes, who had very tiny feet. She could walk with a cane, but I always thought how painful that must have been for her! Then one time we were stranded overnight at SFO because our flight was canceled, and they had a huge display of these Lotus Shoes, so I got to go around and look at all of them, and some were even tinier than the feet of the woman I knew from the market! I'm so glad this isn't done to children anymore.

[@opalyasu7159]

May she rip

[@recensionilibri1986]

😭 it was a life full of sadness, for chinese women 😔

[@irmalujan1723]

🥹🥹

[@ChinweogoSimnoro]

And they don't do these to men😢😂

[@ladykatie9011]

I am an ethnic Chinese girl and I can say my great-grandma had to bound her feet to be attractive. But her dad said no, and said if no man wants to marry her ill take care of her for the rest of my life.

[@ablackknight2744]

And judging by the fact she's your grandma, she didn't have a problem finding a man who thought the same.

[@l-_-ls]

😭

[@nikitadondiva]

Bless him! Clearly she found someone to love her the way she was born because you're here. That's love to go against tradition and societal norms to protect your child.

[@magnetiseyourhusband3338]

Respect for her dad

[@evan_wang]

@@ablackknight2744 Sweet Home Alabama intensifies

[@Iron_Owlz]

I broke my heel 8 months ago and I can tell you that I still have so much pain walking. I can not imagine the amount of pain that these women had to face as children and having to live with the pain that process like this would need.

[@MarlenaWieseman]

Me too.

[@mindlessfun4804]

I broke my toe recently. Tiny fracture. Hurt like hell.

[@Gomet22]

Hey technically to marvels logic if you went back in time and tortured someone it wouldn't actually affect the real present right, cause whoever made this method might be getting a visit soon.

[@Vizzreya]

Yo…I was carrying a MEGA GIGA HEAVY book when a loud sound startled me and that book fell on my feet. Let me tell you it was not pretty

[@chelleyd4020]

I have bunion pain, just a shoe leather pressing on it is excruciating, I can’t imagine the pain of having all them bones broken and wrapped round the bottom with all the weight on it too

[@thealphafox64]

Quick correction on 3:52 In the Victorian period, tightlacing such as shown in the picture on screen was never as widely spread as foot binding. It was more so akin to some of those weird Tiktok trends these days where most of the population is either aware that replicating them is extremely harmful and/or they have other priorities. In fact, even contemporary society often ridiculed these (mostly upper-class women) who practised tightlacing. Besides the obvious that this is painful and very laborious as one would have to slowly tighten expensive, special-made corsets for this over longer periods of time, it was also immensely restricting mobility meaning most people would be inhibited in the practice of their jobs while tight-laced. Additionally, it was kind of unnecessary as the Victorian beauty standard put less value in the actual waist circumference than a specific silhouette; especially in the late 1870s to 1890s the appearance of a small waist was primarily achieved by the large leg of mutton sleeves and an often generous amount of hip padding, making the waist appear smaller in the presence of other overemphasised features. In short - the overall shape of ones body was what was mostly considered desirable by the large populous. I also feel the need to add that there already were various methods of altering pictures not unlike the capabilities of modern Photoshop so not every one of those tiny-waisted women you see in old photos did actually look like that (especially if the background is dark/ low contrast) which in fact you can see in this photo as well as the area around the waist and hips has a few jagged lines and blurred edges, indicative of being edited. ^^

[@JbirdL2233]

It was a way to control women and make them helpless. As always, there is a large contingent of women who go along in inforcing these practices on other women to please men.

[@Pink_celeb420]

Well said!

[@angelaanglin5778]

I agree about controlling women to make them helpless. Currently in some parts of Africa and Middle East women go through FGM. This practice is instigated by other women.

[@jeanajett2719]

It's unfortunate that these women were raised to believe that they must even be married to survive. It's sad and unfortunate but society ran by men for so long made her weak on purpose because had she been aloud to be free she would not have stayed and made more children for him to treat with even less regard. We've come a long way ladies. He will never keep us bound again!

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and believe in the Gospel.. we must be born again to enter Heaven Christ has died and risen so that we can have eternal life through Him.

[@asunahusama]

It's a practice that started with a woman and because the King liked it everyone else felt that they should follow suit. Women are the ones that instigated it and made it culture and with it now being culture, men and young boys started to believe that that's what was desirable based off of what their mothers, sisters and grandmother's talked about. Women have just as much responsibility for this as men.

[@jedgar6653]

We did infact learn this in high school (world history, texas). We went in-depth... It was the most memorable and disturbing thing I learned that year.

[@demontimeyt4438]

No we didn't

[@shedarmeromeo3281]

"😵i Bet S0!"😟

[@tyeshajumper4404]

I learned this in World History in Texas as well

[@mordecaibloodwings]

When i learned this, everytime i read chinese wuxia novel i will always thought the foot of female characters like this, since sometime it always descripted being small and beautiful

[@karentucker2161]

We didn't but I live in Florida, for world history we learned different stuff.

[@vickyferrier4265]

This was torture.

[@dawnie0t793]

I agree it's Torture. I don't understand how it is attractive. Poor women & young girl's. I love how feet look today ... Polished toenails are pretty. 💖

[@facetedperspectives9950]

This is barbaric as HELL, but cliterodectomies (removal of the clitoris in young females) is MORE barbaric on so many levels. Women have suffered for beauty standards imposed by societal conditioning determined by males. All about control and females as commodities for social status.

[@jamesedwards1213]

Seems like more of a foot fetish that went wrong...

[@Blackenedusurper]

@An On today circumcision only removes the foreskin

[@aleksandra2003]

​@@facetedperspectives9950idk if both practices are comparable, but both are barbaric and, mutilating and made to women by women, what is really shocking!

[@galactic_cat_2779]

One of my best friends had her feet bound as a toddler in 2002. She was adopted out of China fortunately and was able to reverse some of the damage because of her still young age.

[@Matehead59]

2002? The parents should be arrested and fined for child abuse

[@nicolettebrown2680]

Foot binding has been outlawed in China for years.

[@galactic_cat_2779]

@@nicolettebrown2680I mean, I know. I'm pretty sure she was taken from her parents as a result of that, they were practicing it on both their daughters illegally. Her adoptive parents did a presentation in our school about the history of the practice and why it is bad.

[@muffin._.milk.]

@@galactic_cat_2779i’m so glad that she’s better and in a safer place now

[@toeachitsown2050]

Yikes!!

[@amandadelcarpio6340]

This is so heartbreaking, I couldn't even begin to imagine. But I enjoyed listening to the history in this, I am just so greatful these times are long gone

[@candicandler2512]

Definitely agree!

[@verypettygirl]

And another time is here

[@ronan3730]

@@verypettygirl yah but we have anesthetics and numbing agents now so we don't have to feel pain when we disfigure ourselves

[@KagomeYasha023]

There’s still female circumcision though 🤬😣

[@jot7565]

unrealistic body standards still exist

[@dzzhang2107]

My grandma was also a woman with "small feet". In my memory, she always had her socks on and I've never saw her feet. I did not understand it neither. She was born in 1926 and passed away at the age of 94. I am the youngest grandson in the family, and I realize how ignorant I was. I had never had a conversation with her about her stories, and she had never shared them with me either. But now I understand that she, who lived in China for almost a century, was a living history herself.

[@lellovenance5702]

Usijali muombee kwa MUNGU apumzike kwa Aman asamehe waliofanya hayo

[@emanuele5799]

Such a touching story... @@lellovenance5702 shut up please bring your god elsewhere

[@yuvla5688]

Who stopped you from talking to her?

[@Heyoudummy]

@@yuvla5688stfu! Maybe he wanted to not pry and possibly embarrass her about a harsh life she lived which I’m SURE his parents mentioned whilst he was growing up.

[@Gernot66]

@@yuvla5688 youv'e read that she didn't liked to share them, he feels sorry but from my ward it's not his fault, most probably she wouldn't have talked about even when asked. imagine this can be traumatizing which means that you cut out a piece of reality to be able to live on. this piece of reality you receive back when you get triggered, but i guess in her case it was better it stayed hidden. it's a shock when you get triggered and recieve this piece of reality back, your'e paralysed for a moment and i guess it can easy cost your life depending on how heavy this let's say lead ball is in your solarplexus. apart from that you will experience the horror again and again in the following weeks. this can be healing but mustn't be. i guess she really locked it up deep inside her and throwed away the key, and i assume she avoided unconcious any stuation which could trigger her. that said there might have been no way that she ever opened her mind about her childhood or youth, neither that it would have been good for her. just guesswork, i don't know his grandma but i know what a trauma is.

[@mythic_snake]

As a mother, I can't even imagine doing something like that to my own child. The screams must have been heartbreaking. I can't believe so many mothers and fathers went along with this horrible, traumatic, abusive practice for 1000 years. So much untold pain and suffering. So sad.

[@howphancy]

Same!

[@ammcd2012]

Well if you didn't want your daughter to be poor, homeless, and starving many Mothers felt it was critical to set up their daughter's future...I wouldn't have been able to do it, and I'm sure many Mothers cried 😢

[@janellcrews6108]

Right? I have a 6 year old girl, I have 4 boys but, my girl has down syndrome and if she has a little pain she makes it worse ( she's dramatic) lol. In this case it breaks my heart I think that any 1 of us no matter how we look is beautiful. I am not gay but I see beauty in me, and men as how they act. Not how they look. My husband is a big man but he's so hot to me because I'm the hottest to him. It's really a turn on how he thinks I'm the best and to me he's everything. I can't explain but it's not about looks all the time.

[@flowrangel7763]

@@ammcd2012 yeah but abuse is abuse. They may have cried (could a heartless 'mother' even cry?), but that old woman's 'mother' would beat her if she didn't wrap her foot everyday. I don't want to be mean, but they could have found another way and even so, don't need to beat their child for anything, let alone being in pain for a broken foot. Also, after it was outlawed, they were still doing it.

[@mindlessfun4804]

People nowadays still abuse their own children, in their own ignorant ways. A couple examples: - Ideological indoctrination (religion, including wokeism) - Unstable environment resulting in dopamin imbalance and addiction - Unsustainable dietary habits

[@cup624]

my feet is actually hurting just by the thought of having their pain. this is a prime example of how society plays a huge factor when it comes to defining what is beautiful and what is not.

[@Yana.-_-.]

I once broke my little toe and the pain was unforgettable, I can't imagine how painful it is to broke the entire toe and walk with it

[@jojomang3016]

I broke one of my middle toes from hitting it on the metal frame of my bed. Never went to the hospital for it and ever since, whenever I wear high heels, the same toe hurts. It even hurts in the cold so I never forget which one it is. x4

[@hadassah1984]

I've never broken a toe, but a stubbed toe damn sent me to the grave 😭

[@reneediaz4494]

@@jojomang3016 same!

[@wazzzup2579]

And here I thought getting an ingrown, tripping and getting a sprained ankle were the wrost that I could experience. So happy that you managed to get healed!

[@gus7807]

@@jojomang3016 you get thst cheked out

[@cleminstine]

"You probably didn't learn about this in history class" I actually learnt about it in English a few years back. We were studying the autobiography 'Chinese Cinderella' and for about a week we looked at foot binding and watched a documentary on it - I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the book somewhere. It's sad that a beauty standard could be so painful.

[@rachatl21]

I remember learning about it in geography

[@ladyfibonaccii]

I chose that book for an English essay. That book was very sad. Yes I remember that book well. Her feet were bound. I remember her grandmother being so vicious and cruel to her, whose feet were completely bound. She was the black sheep of her family.

[@darkhorses2082]

Incredible book

[@cleminstine]

@@ladyfibonaccii It really was sad, I remember crying my eyes out when the duckling got mauled by the family dog.

[@jot7565]

imagine being an international student attending an american school in China, and learning about Chinese history.

[@Vegan_Tree]

It’s interesting to note that, in one image in particular, the end result from the foot binding looks very much like the shape a high heel shoe. Tiny feet in a high arched position are still considered the standard of beauty we just don’t mutilate feet anymore to achieve it. Not that today’s standards are as painful or damaging as foot binding but how many women spend all day in heels and come home with aching feet and lower backs and consider it absolutely normal.

[@eshaepperson5945]

You’re not wrong. The thing is, wearing heels actually do cause some long term effects. It messes up your pelvic area and your hip structure.

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

Men also wore heels in the past, it was never just a woman thing until the past century or two

[@Vegan_Tree]

@@gwendolynrobinson3900 Very true. I think it was the fashion for aristocratic men from at least the 1600s to the early 1800. I don’t think they were super high though, where they would cause pain. Admittedly, I’m getting my mental picture of the outfits from television. LOL Now, stilettos seem like a more modern and mostly feminine contraption. (Something I never wear because the headline would end up as “Woman killed by her own shoes”.)

[@Vegan_Tree]

@M U Definitely! Societal pressure can be tough but nothing like having your feet broken. I maybe should have worded it a little differently. More that the standard is still there for women

[@Vegan_Tree]

@M U Well, I meant to add some punctuation and maybe an additional sentence to that last comment. At least KZbin blinked out at a point where the sentence still made sense. Maybe it’s trying to tell me something. LOL

[@NofirstnameNolastname]

This is about so much more. They can't run away. The ways humans(mostly men) have treated women throughout the ages. Always trying to control them. Humanities history is one of so much grief and suffering.

[@joewebb9518]

The parents who did the to their daughters, should now have their feet bound as punishment. This is horrific and as a father myself to a beautiful daughter, I can't even start to imagine how people could do such a thing to their innocent children.

[@TheJessC]

They're all dead by now so....

[@joewebb9518]

@@TheJessC good !

[@joewebb9518]

@ReDiAnima It's the people that make the culture..

[@joewebb9518]

@ReDiAnima I think a person who is willing to break their children's feet in horrific pain for thr rest of their lives, in the name of 'culture' they are a disgusting, horrible person. Thankfully they are all dead now

[@tllgestalt1942]

@@joewebb9518 As horrific as this is, you shouldn't wish death upon people, that's just as, if not more immoral than this binding.

[@AJBigJJ]

Hi, Taiwanese here. We actually learned about this in school! The Japanese basically stopped this from happening on the island of Taiwan when they took over it. In fact, both sides of the strait has stopped the tradition, and include it in mandatory education! [Thanks to Wendell C. for telling me about the China side of things :DD] I've even met one woman who had their foot binded. She migrated to Taiwan after the China Civil War so they still kept the tradition, and it's really horrifying to see it in person.

[@codybrox4693]

So in your opinion do you think foot binding is still going on in China to this day?

[@winterrain6781]

@@codybrox4693 The practice basically died out but who knows if something like this is still happening in China? A lot of the old ideas and practices are gone because of the multiple reforms from Mao. Also, the practice was banned in the early 1900s. If caught by the government, there will be consequences.

[@brigittecavanagh4291]

They dont talk to much about infections, just once but I am sure they had many infections and death and legs also had to be cut because of the infections.

[@AJBigJJ]

@@codybrox4693 well... i'd say probably not, after the communist party did a reform there. we both had a reform, it's just that ours were a bit earlier than theirs (we had it about 40 years earlier)

[@windywendi]

台灣朋友好，我們大陸的歷史教科書是有在近代文化生活史方面提到纏足的，這種話題在中國大陸也沒有什麽禁忌的，只要不觸碰到政治都不會有事

[@jeanproctor3663]

I can't imagine the amount of pain that so many women went through to achieve a what was in essence a fashion ideal. My heart goes out to them and to the ones that are still alive. I feel even worse for the ones that were publically ridiculed for having something that their families believed all girls and women had to have to score a good marriage.

[@jackierash9680]

I was what the MEN wanted

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Now we are told to respect this type of atrocities in the name of multiculturalism.🙄😬🤷

[@Pabloto-dq3sx]

@@MadamoftheCatHouse uuuhhhh what?

[@FrozenMermaid666]

There are lots of criminaIs misusing the words miss / lady which is beyond criminaI (also the uploader misusing the words emperor / empress) and soon to be banned -- all wimim (and all simps) are the exact opposite of any such big terms (and the opposite of compliments) so they must edit out those words, and uploader needs to edit the video! This is like karma for breeding, for subjecting their offspring to most awful sacriIege by not having a c-section, for trying to find simps even though all wimim are not love material and no simp loves wimim anyway, and for being impostors, for buying or wearing things not meant for them but only for me etc... I am the true and only Lady / Empress / Miss / Mrs / Ms / Queen / Princess / Goddess / Diva / Countess / Dame etc in existence protected by the official security organizations ClA and NSA since day one and the most protected being, and the only being meant to be loved truly and wear those pretty / glittery / royal-themed items and makeup and gold / jewelry / diamonds -- soon all impostors and all term / name misuse and all breeding / _ with wimim will be banned, as will all other crimes!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

All the betas/womeb deserve the _ because of their criminaI actions, and they never should've bred.

[@Likorca]

This actually brought a tear to my face. It's so sad. We need to learn and do better, we must.

[@a.froman1419]

As a women with size 11 in women shoes I am so happy that things are changing... I actually had to learn to love my big feet.. I couldnt imagine the pain any of these women have felt.. may they find peace.

[@B..P..]

Big feet does not mean ugly. My EX girlfriend had big feet and they looked great. Also beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[@nikkinicole5435]

Same girl, grateful for My big ass feet.

[@h0pe917]

Big or small it's all good

[@champ7028]

I’m a size 10 or so and used to be horribly insecure about it. So I understand ur pain my love Also ur stunning

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and believe in the Gospel.. we must be born again to enter Heaven Christ has died and risen so that we can have eternal life through Him.

[@lizxu322]

As a 100% ethnic Chinese, I don't think I can survive back then cos I have size 11 feet (42). It's even wider than my dad's, my ex's, etc. I can't believe literally millions of girls had to go through this 🥺 Id like to think my female ancestors would appreciate me using my ginormous unbound feet to the utmost running, jumping, etc ❤

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and believe in the Gospel.. we must be born again to enter Heaven Christ has died and risen so that we can have eternal life through Him.

[@lizxu322]

@@monicafox3737 what part of my comment asked

[@skully.1052]

@@monicafox3737 huh?

[@francescoandreini643]

@@monicafox3737 ratio

[@JP-np8fj]

@@francescoandreini643 Massively incredible L

[@swampophelia2098]

imagine a small girl being forced to walk on her newly bound feet to make the bones break……it’s so horrific that it actually makes me feel sick. Those poor women

[@idou]

talk about having your childhood ruined (imagine being 3-7 y/o..) and the rest of your life, really. though i suppose they didn’t have much of a childhood back then anyways but. just so incredibly awful

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

I'm genuinely nauseous and that rarely happens just watching videos.

[@alaynar1594]

Imagine getting your toes broken and your foot bent in half then having to walk on it for the rest of your life

[@martinphilip8998]

My girlfriend’s grandmother had this. She hobbled around. Doing it meant you were a woman of leisure. After all, you couldn’t work after the treatment.

[@RoLee705]

“You have no chance of finding love if you refuse” “Love” doesn’t sound like the right word there, pal.

[@thatonekid9400]

This is why I don't believe love exists. Love was defined as THIS nonsense for centuries.

[@vindamawarrose9500]

I really hate that the fact that if a girl isn't beautiful as society sees it means she wont find love, which is why I hate that, Its like that if a person of ugly they wont live a happy life, thats the most messed up thing I've ever heard. and it angers me

[@Chris-pr1hs]

It’s seems like Cinderella’s step mother moved to China when she was banned from the kingdom……. Then proceeded to impose this as it had been why her children never got to marry the prince

[@yorilamaz]

Perhaps a monarch director of Disney (and Nickelodeon) had a little foot fetish inspired by lotus foot binding... like classic Cinderella. You can also google Lizzie McGuire/ Zenon/Victorious/iCarly/and even Drake&Josh + foot fetish and read about that monster in that industry. Lots of untold stories behind the scene for sure!

[@lumiella]

i heard somewhere else that cinderella was actually originated from china before it got picked up by europe. cinderella's shoes only fit her because her feet were bound as someone of higher status, and her stepsisters cut off their toes to fit into them because they were commoners. what a terrible origin to a story that is so worshipped by young children

[@labj143]

@@lumiella The oldest version of the Cinderella story is an ancient Greek(BCE/BC time period) one. In the story an enslaved Greek girl has a sandal stolen by a bird. The bird dropped the sandal in the lap of an Egyptian king and, for whatever reason, he marries her. And this story was recorded long before the first records of foot binding(10th century CE/AD). So rest assured, Cinderella's origin is unrelated to this.

[@paulhomsy2751]

To ridicule these poor women who suffered so much, because small feet are no longer in fashion, when they had no choice whatsoever to begin with just shows the cruel, insensitive and deficient mindset of a culture.

[@toanotherplace]

Their feet were bound so they couldn't run. They were slaves.

[@Blackenedusurper]

pretty much

[@yakzivz1104]

this is the truth

[@SierNotsruht]

Not true feminists like you always have to say things like that that's way I hate feminists with a passion

[@memegirl490]

@@SierNotsruht what...?

[@Blackenedusurper]

@@SierNotsruht if their feet were bound so they couldn't run what are they then if not slaves?

[@clauditafachini6642]

I had heard about this practice but I had never seen the way it was done and the end product...😰😢😢 I am a former ballet dancer, 2 years ago i had to stop due to a mild arthritis on my toes and arc. The pain was horrible when walking, i couldn't even put socks on. I consider myself lucky compared to these poor women. Thankfully nowadays this is considered abuse. Also, so gross how back in the days, women had to go thru such deformities to find a man!

[@jennyrose9454]

Ballet is it's own type of torture on the feet the body isn't meant to do that.

[@jennyrose9454]

@Gary Allen yes en Pointe was what I was referring to sorry, not every type of ballet

[@autumnbruno5287]

We are still doing it today.. plastic surgery to get a man

[@tabithadickson36]

@@autumnbruno5287 and the stupid woman lose the men anyway cos they no longer look like the woman the men fell in love with i say im not changing the way I look cos i love what I look like already 😀

[@thriller_enthusiast]

Imagine being 3 years old and enduring this... I feel so bad

[@grifyn882]

not a problem when youre 3, you don't understand and you don't remember very well...in fact the more you are young, the less you suffer...it would be very more horrible enduring this at 15 because you would understand suffer and remember it all your life...

[@rosieposieislove2882]

@@grifyn882 3 year olds feel pain just as well if it’s that painful then they will surely remember it

[@Sam-ig7ot]

@@grifyn882 young Kids can remember traumatizing things and remember it clearly for their whole lives.

[@grifyn882]

@@Sam-ig7ot no...sometimes yes, but its rare...even the old lady in this video tells she don't remember what was the pain of having her toes broken at 7...(00:19:27) I guarantee you if it had been at 25 she would be traumatized all her life she would remember hard the pain for ever...i personnaly had my upper lip cut at 7 or 8 in an accident and i still have a scar...i don't remember anything, if my mother had not told me about accident, i will never know it as an adult... People always think that the more you are young the more its horrible to suffer...but its false, if i had to be tortured, or have to have a bone broken, and if i could choose, i would prefer to have it a 3 rather than at 15, 20 or 30...

[@scarletcold5958]

@@grifyn882 Your subconcious mind NEVER forgets anything.

[@yvonneeaster]

My best friend told me about this when I was young. I didn’t believe her. She produced a book that confirmed it. I was shocked then and now.

[@michaelsteele4587]

No matter what the culture or religion...it's ALWAYS the women who suffer. We all want to come here acting horrified at the extremes these folks went through but we as a species still haven't learned after all these years because now women just take it up a notch and visit a plastic surgeon to please society.

[@freemindds355]

🎯

[@whatsyourwifii]

ALWAYS

[@elavke5441]

And themselves

[@Kitsunary]

Especially in Korea and China. Koreans give plastic surgery as birthday presents to adhere to beauty standards to the point where death isn't unheard of (not enough surgeons, so a lot leave it to someone else to do). In China, they like long-legged women with thin waists, so they have surgery that breaks their legs to get taller(threat of permanent disability) and starve themselves.

[@andrerose2025]

@@Kitsunary Yeah and in America, women undergo dangerous surgery like liposuction and the bbl(which has the highest mortality rate out of any plastic surgery procedure) just to adhere to the current beauty standard, which is to have an hourglass shaped body.

[@hollowtree258]

imagine doing all this and then only having iron lotus

[@RsTu0909]

🤣🤣 I'm so sorry! This story is sickening and awful! Yet this comment just made laugh! I mean go through all this torture and then they look at you like ...what only 5 inches? Yuck!

[@r1sabotage]

😂😂😂 I know this isn't a funny topic but I'm still laughing with that statement...

[@catrinahartz944]

@@RsTu0909 . I know right??

[@acc2180]

@@RsTu0909 average is 7-6 in ._. bruh i need help-

[@bluincorporations4642]

lols

[@TheRealJaneSeymour]

The documentary made me cry. The pain these women had to endure for absolutely no reason is heartbreaking. And for them to still smile or laugh after what they have all been through, I can't even imagine what kind of strength and courage that takes. If any of these ladies are still around today, I hope they know just how strong and brave they all are! ❤

[@carmenhere7195]

Just shows how must pain women had to endure and still do endure throughout history.

[@justacat2]

yeahh... both genders endured pain

[@rolletroll2338]

​​@@justacat2yeah, but strangely, the most fucked up practices are always for women.

[@rolletroll2338]

​@@justacat2by the way, did you know that 84% of the lobotomies were practiced on women?

[@leonidandreca2670]

I never knew this existed, thats why traditions aren’t always good for us.

[@sariahlace5944]

Exactly true. We always think,that tradition is the only way to go.

[@ferretglobal957]

Well yes because stuff like this is not ok

[@yukae2878]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👌🏾

[@jadelance]

They hardly are tbh unless if they're something inherently harmless

[@voxtur__7]

That's what I say: "don't break rules. Break traditions."

[@morecm3322]

My heart is so sad to see this. These poor women, it hurts so badly to have a broken foot. I am so sad that any one would have to endure this in the name of beauty.. thank you for sharing.

[@crochetingglamma4055]

My heart breaks for all those women that had to bind their feet and go through this pain just for men to want them.

[@AcediaIX]

Wrong, it wa s because of one dumb woman that was insecure about her feet so she decided that her insecurity shall be shared with every woman as a sign of being Refined

[@edabella143]

It's painful to see someone change themselves to be desired for the opposite gender. Of course, footbinding took changing one's appearance to an extreme :-(.

[@zoviqi2452]

@@AcediaIX she was a dancer I don't think it was because she was insecure. It's more like mad behaviour of an artist who chase aesthetic more than her health and I don't think she bound it until it crush her legs but idk her so i won't really make a full judgement cuz no one can tbh she is long gone

[@zoviqi2452]

@@AcediaIX but it is true that those disgusting man who made the order to all the women to wear it involuntary is the real cause who bring all the pain to these poor women's lives

[@noearchiviste55]

@@AcediaIX excuse me? I know this comment was a longg time ago but u needa sit ur ass down. It wasn't because a woman was insecure about herself and decided to share it with other woman, it's because a man had a tiny foot fetish. Did we even watch the same video? It was COMPULSORY for women to have their binded. And if they didn't get their feet binded? Oh well they're a piece of garbage which no man wants.

[@kaneykane3449]

Oh my days i was traumatised listening. Those poor children & women.

[@mellio9077]

me too. this is horrific. 😢

[@ariellesmommy]

My feet hurt just watching this. I also can’t imagine enduring that pain and then doing the same thing to your daughter.

[@lorettascott5477]

I would Never do that to my daughter!!!

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Unfortunately it was a status symbol, only the high born had this done, so you were telling people that you were very well off, your wife, daughter had no need to do any work as you could employ servants to do everything.

[@koreukii]

@Grim Reaper you can't call them that. they are also only victims of the horrors of their traditions. still happens today. calling an entire culture "idiots" and "dumbasses" reflects on your own ignorance.

[@cloudyxsxies583]

My mom told me my great-grandma who lived to 102 and died in 2020 was supposed to bind her foot. However, early on she decided to stop. She didn't see any real reason to do that. Her mom had died and her dad was really busy so no one cared that much if she stopped. Because of that, her foot was really normal.

[@robinlillian9471]

Sad that her Mom died, but she was lucky not to be forced to keep binding her feet. If times had not changed she might have been in economic trouble if she couldn't find a husband.

[@jadewang7287]

My grandma is the oldest among her siblings and she was the first girl in her family not binding feet. She went to girls school, played volleyball in the school team, and even played for the professional team for two years before going to college. She traveled to Europe when she was 76, and when she was showing me the photos, she proudly claim: “Do you know why I can walk around Rome the whole day? That’s because I have a pair of big feet!”

[@Darjeelingla]

I’m 75 years old, of some Chinese ancestry. In the old days, there were a few women with bound feet in our family. As children we were both horrified, yet intrigued, by this bizarre practice. We kids always wanted to have ‘a look’.

[@monicafox3737]

Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and believe in the Gospel.. we must be born again to enter Heaven Christ has died and risen so that we can have eternal life through Him.

[@Thatoneperson395]

@@monicafox3737 what

[@cxlappsed1548]

@@monicafox3737 maybe don't bring religion into stuff like this

[@fauxhuman0]

@@monicafox3737 shut up this has nothing to do with christianity

[@nex865]

@@monicafox3737 least annoying christian

[@buslady6695]

Every time I hear about this subject, I remember what my podiatrist said about extremely high heels and what they do to the feet and legs: They are literally walking on their toes and basically supporting the weight of their body with their toes.

[@helenewood1407]

I am a retired RN and I had a patient who had her feet bound. I was in my mid- twenties in the late 70's early 80's, and she had a broken hip and had surgery. I remember her feet looked exactly like the images in this video. It was a concern about her walking after surgery with Physical Therapy, but it wasn't a problem. I believe she wore her bound foot shoes, and used a walker. I only remember it was not a problem. I had not believed I would see that in my lifetime.

[@vaszgul736]

Having been born with charcot marie tooth disease, I was essentially born with these feet. They curl and become tiny on their own, and curl to such an extent that I lose the ability to walk. I have to periodically get surgery to straighten them again, which is all very painful. But I've had numerous acquaintances and partners with foot fetishes make comments about how attractive it is to them. (something I really don't get, because my feet are quite literally deformed, and there's quite a lot of photos out there of people with my condition that can illustrate that for you) It really makes me think maybe there's some truth to the theory that someone with something similar (a clubbed foot as you put it) started the trend. It's really an unusual and unfortunate situation that someone else's deformities are sexualized in these ways. Whether born that way or having it forced upon them.

[@lizvisser4221]

My brother has this. He has had many operations

[@krollpeter]

I viewed some pictures. You are right, it does not look attractive at all, however, far not as crippled as the bound feet of the Han Chinese women. Thanks for the post, and I am also puzzled how men can find this more attractive. No offence intended, but I guess you know.

[@littlemermaid8638]

Oh, I'm sorry that you have to deal with this disease, until now I was unaware that it even exists (so thank you for telling people about it!)... I wish you all the best! 😊 Hugs from Austria 🇦🇹

[@raws_ilence3298]

My second line cousin also has CMT disorder. She never had surgery instead she was given braces. However, as she became an adult her feet gave up on her and now she uses a wheelchair. Her mother has it as well so it runs on her side of the family. My cousin is the oldest of seven children and four of them have CMT. My cousin is a wonderful woman and a mother of three and two of her children also have it. She has a big heart even though she suffers everyday she's a true warrior. I learned so much from her. I wish there was more research on this condition to help those who have it because they go thru a lot.

[@stormtrooper8859]

I feel really bad, idk how people are into that stuff. Disgusting

[@JL-zg6oc]

I went to China about 10-15 years ago and happen to run into a small museum that displayed the Golden Lotus shoes. There were at least two hundred pairs of them, and some of them were literally 3 inches only!!! I have to say the shoes were gorgeous, with intricate silk embroidery and all. I was in awe and couldn’t figure how women’s feet were able to fit into such extremely tiny shoes. It makes my heart break now I know exactly how they did it. So very very cruel and barbaric.

[@TheAdventurerAndDiscoverer]

Is it still continued? I heard it was banned, but some people continued it. Is it still here in 2022? Hopefully not.

[@johanneabelsen1644]

Oh, of COURSE, there was no explanation on WHY the feet were so tiny!! Shame on China!

[@johanneabelsen1644]

@@TheAdventurerAndDiscoverer It isn't.

[@lchristophor3107]

Learn people. These shoes were never a Chinese thing. It was imposed on Chinese people by the Qing dynasty, who are foreigners similar to Mongolians.

[@zhangabigail2861]

@@TheAdventurerAndDiscoverer is banned for decades, been live in china for 15 years and have never seen anyone do that. But recently some misogynistic people trying to bring them back, they are post it on a website similar to discord

[@CartePostale.]

As a mother & a physician, I cannot imagine forcing this upon my daughter! This is China's shame in the same way that F.G.M./C. is today, in the 29 countries in Africa & the Middle East where this appalling practice is still seen, as F.B. once was, as a necessity for "making a good marriage". How appalling that, in the 21st C. more than 129 MILLION women & girls are living, or have died from this disgusting practice which is also, like foot-binding, enforced by the very people who should be their protectors - their mothers!! Although most of the horrors of F.B. were covered in this documentary, one was not - the horrific stench! Although the bindings were supposed to be changed regularly, even silk couldn't mask the odour of necrotising flesh!! A close friend & colleague who worked as a visiting professor & surgeon in Beijing, has told me of the terrible toll the practice left in it's wake. The popular film, "Inn of the Sixth Happiness" (which contained many inaccuracies), is loosely based on the life of Gladys Aylward, a Christian missionary in China who, served, for a time as "Assistant Foot Inspector" to the Governor of China. Gladys saved many, many girls from foot binding & had much success where others had failed due to her refusal to cave in to political pressure. Along with an older female missionary, Gladys opened a home for orphans & those crippled by F.B. (this home was correctly called "Inn of the Eight Happinesses"). Although unmarried, she even adopted a large number of orphans herself &, when the Japanese army invaded China, in 1938, Gladys took her 100 orphans to safety across the mountains. Although extremely ill, she insisted on caring for the children herself, not only managing to evade the enemy but also showing practical love & care for "her" children. Miss Aylward visited the girl's school I attended (although years before I was a pupil there). I used to stand, looking at her photograph which hung on the wall, amazed at the faith & courage of the "little woman" who stood less than 5ft tall but had done so much, with God's help. She intervened in prison riots, advocated for prison reform but, most of all, she saved many, many girls from F.B. & nursed those who had been crippled by the practice & gave orphans love & a place to call home. Gladys Aylward died in the orphanage she established in Taiwan on 3 January 1970 at the age of 67. Thank you for uploading this documentary!

[@alexgosan5707]

i always thought they just bound them tight to limit the growth which sounded painful to me already. but break and shape them by walking sounds incredible. how do you not get unconcious by that?

[@anthony39883]

Yeah I was always under the same impression .. thought they just bound them tight so they wouldn't grow .. had no idea they broke the toes that is insane

[@ambersykora352]

Opium. All that I need to say

[@brianamichelle9024]

Yeahhhh!! That’s exactly what I thought too!!!

[@elainekent7026]

I cannot comprehend why parents would do this to their daughters. It's barbaric.

[@franksu9735]

Poor families sold their daughters to the rich as play things, Chinese culture is based on slavery and fear.

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

A lot of despicable and inhumane things that won't pass today were the norms decades and centuries ago.

[@apearchitect558]

@Retro Rose what do you mean by that?

[@apearchitect558]

@Retro Rose so parents change their child’s genders for no reason? i have never heard of this.

[@apearchitect558]

@Retro Rose ohhh wait you’re talking about transgenderism?

[@lesliel.6260]

What's interesting is that usually these painful and disfiguring beauty standards have been imposed on women. Why weren't any men doing this?

[@rubymuasya3531]

Because women have been oppressed in the society for a very long time ..don’t you understand

[@SA-vm4rz]

Why are men not given birth control when they have been shown to have few negative side effects as opposed to women yet there isn’t one available? Men control women and have since the beginning of time

[@lesliel.6260]

@@SA-vm4rz I have to agree, for centuries we have been property and perpetual minors, the ladies before had to fight for even basic human rights: right to divorce, have a bank account, inheritance, jobs, stopping sexual harassment, ect...I mean this foot binding practice is just straight up barbaric, I can't imagine how these ladies managed to do even basic things like walking or working, gosh being pregnant must have been like 10xs harder, I'm really glad this practice has stopped.

[@SA-vm4rz]

Hopefully, this video can enlighten people who didn't know this was practiced and maybe lead people to learn about more oppression such as FGM. Women today (especially in America) need to realize while our rights aren't perfect we have come a LONG way and our ancestors had it much much worse and some countries still practice barbaric atrocities against women and probably will continue to do so for years to come. The fact we can vote, marry whomever we choose and simply wear what we want and be able to show our bodys however we want is something the women before us and in many other places in the world didn't/dont have the luxury of doing. Be thankful every day

[@nousernamewhatsoever]

@@SA-vm4rz how would birth control for men work? They don't ovulate...

[@sherrieowens9195]

This is child abuse and so very sad. A child should not have to go through this ever.

[@dennishough3709]

I was not even aware of “foot binding”?? The horrible pain those girls went through is hard to comprehend. Informative content. Thank you,

[@janadalberto2620]

I’ve heard of this before, but this is just horrible. I can’t even imagine the pain …

[@ambereyedbabygirl]

This is terrifying. My daughter was born with clubbed feet, one being so severe it was basically backwards. She had to wear casts for a year, then had her Achilles tendons cut, and still wears braces every night. Imagine doing something worse than this to a little child or baby, ON PURPOSE FOR NO MEDICAL REASON. these parents make me sick.

[@julz9378]

parents allowing their children to mutilsye their bodies because they’re transgender is the same type of abuse

[@AmyAndThePup]

It wasn't just the parents. It was society, and passed down over 1000 years. Heartbreakingly sad.

[@deliadobra]

I hope your daughter is better now. I am very sorry for the pain she has to endure but in her case it is necessary. For a real mother, it must be agony to see your child suffer for any reason

[@buslady6695]

A terrible experience for your daughter to go through. You're a caring parent who hates to see her pain. Best wishes for her treatment, and hope she will be better soon. She's a brave little girl.

[@xyz7572]

Bro, this wasn’t about “changing your body for beauty” it was about controlling women…

[@zinmomo7192]

Yeah, and also this is more so mutilation. Maybe corsetry is similar to foot binding, but makeup doesn't really fit in.

[@mindlessfun4804]

You can't understand what sick f****** ruled in human history.

[@issecret1]

@@zinmomo7192 corsetry isn't similar, the small waists were outliers. There are a lot of historic clothing enthusiasts on youtube and they all have videos on corset myths

[@Niyasutton]

Right

[@cryforthemoon]

Telling them they would be beautiful if they did it was just the marketing scam.

[@JanieCordova]

So heartbreaking!! No woman should have gone through this 😢😢..

[@walpurgisnight7]

There is no way to express how much love and support I wish I could offer these women.

[@harlie999]

When she said something like if she didn't have her shoes on, her parents would beat her, it makes me sad. Because little did she know, she was being abused, not knowing, and on top of that, going through excruciating pain, every day. It's so sad. I bet she was happy when her parents died.

[@mangamama9881]

I think she did know it was abuse but you couldn't turn to anyone for help. And I doubt she was happy when her parents died. I know of many children whose parents beat them up/have beaten them up and they still go and buy their moms chocolate and gifts and protect them. It's awful...

[@harlie999]

@@mangamama9881 I'm so lucky to have the parents I have, yet while watching this, she probably knew what abuse was, just didn't know that what was happening was abuse.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Susanna, my grandmother was a horrible and abusive mother and treated my mom badly. Yet, my mom still loves her and thinks that she wasn’t that bad!

[@TheAdventurerAndDiscoverer]

@@harlie999 how does your parents treat you? Also not related but, do they force you to study?

[@TheAdventurerAndDiscoverer]

@@sarcasticallyrearranged I think you should still appreciate her

[@TheSweetestCocoa]

It's all about submission. If a woman is willing to break her toes and bind them just to get married imagine what they would do to keep their husband. The smaller the foot the more pain she is willing to endure (men's thinking at the time). It makes the women slow and dependent on their male counterparts.

[@abcdefgh6951]

I mean if the girl was like 6 it's not really a choice I don't think most of them did it willingly...

[@TheSweetestCocoa]

@@abcdefgh6951 exactly they are trained from a young age to be docile.

[@TheSweetestCocoa]

@@BlanketyBlank9050 the general public is about 5 years too early for this conversation 🙉🙊🤫

[@BlanketyBlank9050]

@@TheSweetestCocoa I just wanted to tell them before they die off.

[@khatunamezvrishvili6211]

@@BlanketyBlank9050 cringe

[@damattice23]

Thank you for covering this. So sad and heinous.

[@micheleerwin2848]

This is just evil and wicked. What a horrible thing to do to little girls. Thank God it finally stopped.

[@MrTweetyhack]

Also, Thank your God it started

[@carolbradley4845]

@@MrTweetyhack What makes you think God had anything to do with this?

[@beverlybalius9303]

@@MrTweetyhack God had nothing to do with heathern footbinding.

[@lilymae7516]

@@carolbradley4845 god had nothing to do with anything. Thank the people who spoke up about this trauma and got it banned.

[@blue7284]

The elderly lady speaking made me cry. The pain in her voice. 💔

[@careysullivan1650]

That poor woman. Makes me sick.

[@dodongai]

My great grandma was forced to have her feet bound but it was too painful so she just took the bands off at night and had large feet according to ancient standards. Her mother said she wouldn’t find a husband, but she’s happily married and said fuck it and became a rebel hence everyone in my family are all rebels

[@Styxswimmer]

@lindyt3942 I can't wrap my head around this. I have 2 kids and it's emotionally jarring when my kids get hurt. My eldest fell off his bike and broke his arm years ago. I was a wreck until he got his cast set and he started to heal.

[@carlouch3]

The ending 🎉

[@rainbowstones5431]

Great woman! It took an iron will and the bravery of a real warrior to fight against the foot binding custom! She needs an honour day!🎉❤

[@victoria.xseven7913]

How could she take the bandages off? I'd thought toes and arch are often broken. No I can't imagine the pain and horror, and what it would do to the rest of the body and life in general.

[@genesisknight9948]

Your great grandma sounds like an absolute legend. She be like "No way in hell am I gonna put myself through pointless agony because its a beauty trend." Massive respect.

[@crontainer8950]

my great grandma had bound feet :)she passed a few years ago but i think about her & her life often

[@lechatlola]

I have the feeling that throughout history, it were mostly women who had to endure horrible practices in order to fit particular beauty standards. And it's still like that, women are expected to have a particular look to be considered beautiful. And let's not forget that in some parts of the world female circumcision is still a thing. 😔

[@cassycookie9558]

Or make sure men could control women's movement.

[@idan6717]

That's one of the reasons why I became a radical feminist. Women have suffered and STILL suffer.

[@nathanieldaddy6560]

Riggt

[@lzbhcvm6747]

@@idan6717 still suffer? Like what???

[@goldenharp5415]

Your probably right but I think men had to deal with the no emotions thing even more back then then now I think both are completely idiotic it’s ridiculous that these conversations even have to come up

[@jingyun4323]

My great grandmother has bound feet. Only ladies who were well off had bound feet. My great-grandmother had super tiny feet and my mum when she had to wash her feet, stated that the smell was horrifying. The smell of sweat and crevices that harbour bacteria was too much.

[@elysianflowers5728]

Please ask her if she would be comfortable sharing her experience on video, there's very little recorded from the actual women who endured it. I hope she is well.

[@schamarasworld951]

😞❤️

[@Dragonflyathena]

Condolences to your great grandmother for having to endure this. 💔

[@jingyun4323]

@@elysianflowers5728 my great grandmother passed away a very long time ago.

[@Macil2018]

As a man, I find this absolutely disgusting. Pure evil. What the hell is wrong with people who'd want to do this to other people???

[@CherylJoseph-wf9uk]

Your a good man. I'm sure there were a few back then that felt bad for their daughters and possibly their wives too..

[@CcC-ct9tb]

Cosmetic procedures still happen today. Make so much worse.

[@truant6910]

deep down its all about control.

[@jasonbig1353]

@@truant6910yes it is. They don’t want women to even go outside on their own.

[@nocomment6421]

This happens when you vote for the right

[@nathaniel_jpg]

This is the first disturbing video that I can’t actually watch, this sounds so painful I had to stop half way through

[@MsWhitegirl16]

There is a lot of stuff we didn’t learn in history class… this is horrible. Feet are not suppose to look like that😔

[@uhohstinky5850]

I learned this in achool

[@LynnJepson]

Nowadays they teach modified history and probably make it all about race.

[@fallingasleepaswespeak]

@@LynnJepson i actually learned this in 8th grade history, we had a whole lesson on it

[@Maryam6698]

I learned about this in world history

[@TheHellmo]

I learned about it when I was in elementary 🤷‍♀️ Read a story about a girl who wanted ballet shoes but her grandmother didn’t want her to have ballet shoes because she mistook the ribbons for foot wraps and didn’t want that for her grand daughter

[@bruna7534]

The fact that they were forced to had their feet broken and deformed and later in a snap simply abandoned or humiliated for having those feet because it's not attractive anymore is absolutely dehumanizing

[@ryanmackenzie6109]

Such is the experience for women; treated as property instead of people. It's shameful how we treat others.

[@user-hyuser357]

эта ситуация напоминает мне войну в афганистане/события в чечне. когда тысячи молодых, неопытных парней(в те времена в армию могли забрать кого угодно. даже если человек не хотел туда идти), бросили в мясорубку. а потом, на вернувшихся инвалидов без рук, ног, или с тяжелейшими психическими травмами, смотрели как на мусор

[@minarvatripathi9561]

@bruna7534 bound feet had very disgusting disfigured look and always tied by dressing. They smelled really bad and never kept untied except for cleaning them. How can they feel good to men?? Has hygiene already left the chat???

[@pol2171]

To actually get a feeling of this effect on the individual I recommend reading the book: Sunflower and the Secret Fan: The part of where the girls' feet are bound is so descriptive I cried whilst reading it. Until then I really had no idea of the actual process and the pain and absolute agony the girls faced. A great video, thank you for sharing.

[@petrosinella]

I loved that book!

[@pol2171]

@@petrosinella Me too.

[@angelarigido7161]

Go watch some tribal videos on female clitoral excision

[@Awaken_h]

And me!!!

[@Person0fColor]

You mean you had to read a whole ass book to understand that breaking someone’s foot and tying that bish up hurts like hell? 😂 I know it’s suppose to make you sound more enlightened but it really doesn’t. Do you need a picture of what 18th century dental work was like?

[@melissacoxen6001]

My heart breaks for these poor women. How absolutely awful to have to grow through something so agonizing. I can't imagine doing something like this to my daughters, and seeing them in pain like that. I'm so thankful that this dreadful practice finally ended!