"I couldn't stop crying because of the pain. It was unbearable." In today's documentary, we're covering the disturbing history of Chinese foot binding, also known as lotus feet. [Video] [Imagery] supplied by Getty Images.
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@JustDeLuca3 жыл бұрын
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.
@joannestark30233 жыл бұрын
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!
@litchtheshinigami89363 жыл бұрын
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
@JustDeLuca3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@FrozenMermaid6663 жыл бұрын
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!
@livratanska49493 жыл бұрын
@@FrozenMermaid666 lmao what even is ‘wimin’?
@jxn10563 жыл бұрын
"young bones are soft and break more easily" sent shivers down my spine! 😢😲
@krollpeter3 жыл бұрын
It's the essence of the Chinese upbringing system in general.
@tarinia11153 жыл бұрын
I couldn't watch it after this sentence.
@care_channel16613 жыл бұрын
Me tooo
@kazumakiryuu26683 жыл бұрын
olympics
@mariannechemu28603 жыл бұрын
All to Impress and be a symbol of honor to their fathers, then husbands back then. Harrowing. Completely horrible.
@blinkjetimmersion9 ай бұрын
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-sparkles17247 ай бұрын
seriously heartbreaking.
@minarvatripathi95616 ай бұрын
@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-ct9tb3 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ
@justinballenger6053 ай бұрын
@@CcC-ct9tbI know buddy 😟😥
@ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv2 ай бұрын
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.
@lindybarnes6413 ай бұрын
I can’t fathom how millions of people hated their own children enough to torture them in one of the most horrific ways imaginable.
@kalevala292 ай бұрын
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.
@AmeliaEarhart537562 ай бұрын
I agree, and they thought they loved their kids but they didn't.
@J.M..2 ай бұрын
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.
@argent51962 ай бұрын
@@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..2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@mrs.stringfellow70993 жыл бұрын
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.
@luciaescobarz3 жыл бұрын
That poor woman 🥺
@misakichoi6363 жыл бұрын
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?
@handooru3893 жыл бұрын
@@misakichoi636 different cultures i assume
@jazzysugar37773 жыл бұрын
Be pregnant with bound feet must have been horrible
@mrs.stringfellow70993 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@serenityb58163 жыл бұрын
I can’t understand why they would be ridiculed. It’s horribly sad. They need and deserve compassion.
@sheldonshniklefritz953 жыл бұрын
communists have no compassion,no empathy, "for the greater good" they say as they literaly trample the downtrodden
@yakkityyak93363 жыл бұрын
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
@janetpendlebury68083 жыл бұрын
@@sheldonshniklefritz95 This practise started in the 10th century.
@jessieblossom38743 жыл бұрын
How can any man find deformed broken feet attractive? It's just weird.
@janetpendlebury68083 жыл бұрын
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.
@galactic_cat_27795 ай бұрын
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.
@mango76203 ай бұрын
2002? The parents should be arrested and fined for child abuse
@nicolettebrown26803 ай бұрын
Foot binding has been outlawed in China for years.
@galactic_cat_27793 ай бұрын
@@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.2 ай бұрын
@@galactic_cat_2779i’m so glad that she’s better and in a safer place now
@toeachitsown2050Ай бұрын
Yikes!!
@acmm3152 ай бұрын
This is torture. I cant imagine the pain a child has to go through.
@whatdoinamethischannel97493 жыл бұрын
The fact that she remembers that from all those years ago is heartbreaking
@sashypooh4092 жыл бұрын
It was so horrifying, how could she forget??
@ejedwards9882 жыл бұрын
If you've ever broken a bone you understand how and why she wouldn't forget.
@crescent31072 жыл бұрын
It's called trauma
@raphaelcarvalhobezerra69132 жыл бұрын
Traumas cant be forgotten
@wertiaaudit57462 жыл бұрын
We all have our trauma we cant forget.
@michelleshi51163 жыл бұрын
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.
@raerae29643 жыл бұрын
woww
@lydiaaponte78683 жыл бұрын
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-ig4vk2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ariadne0w12 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ariadne0w12 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheVeggiekat3 ай бұрын
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-treeАй бұрын
American or UK size?
@Sirianstar10Ай бұрын
Horrible!!!
@MiamiChica16 күн бұрын
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.
@amberrose110816 күн бұрын
That's child abuse! I'm so sorry she was so stupid!
@Kason05MB15 күн бұрын
I'm very sorry to hear of this 😞
@helenewood140711 ай бұрын
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.
@Icaanseeyou3 жыл бұрын
I hate what these parents did to their daughter it’s sickening and sad
@arianah95323 жыл бұрын
@@suzygirl1843 they didn’t really do it to the men. it was a beauty standard for women
@Lordknowswhere3 жыл бұрын
And FGM...
@Icaanseeyou3 жыл бұрын
They knew it was painful yet they still did it I bet that they cried and screamed for it to stop
@veronicaperez-rx5ef3 жыл бұрын
@@Icaanseeyou In their culture they are raised to be obedient. I’m sure they cried but did as told :(
@Icaanseeyou3 жыл бұрын
I know it’s just horrifying to imagine a gir screaming and crying as her feet are broken and deformed
@CirylDrawsStuff3 жыл бұрын
This makes me look at my own feet with so much gratitude and love. I can’t even begin to imagine the torture…
@b3nsy3 жыл бұрын
SAME
@normanteio69163 жыл бұрын
Same, I feel so bad for those women who had to go through that at a young age..
@Raveen13 жыл бұрын
Same, those poor women..
@cobzff57693 жыл бұрын
And now you have foot fetish welcome
@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg3 жыл бұрын
@@cobzff5769 thats a different thing..........
@pol217111 ай бұрын
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.
@petrosinella10 ай бұрын
I loved that book!
@pol217110 ай бұрын
@@petrosinella Me too.
@angelarigido71618 ай бұрын
Go watch some tribal videos on female clitoral excision
@Awaken_h8 ай бұрын
And me!!!
@Person0fColor8 ай бұрын
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?
@alexofalexyel2 ай бұрын
Those women deserved so much better. My heart hurts for them.
@Ash-hi5hy3 жыл бұрын
All because one dude had a tiny foot fetish.....I feel so awful for all those women.
@adamburling95513 жыл бұрын
The kind of thing communism creates when one dude is put up high like a God.
@janetpendlebury68083 жыл бұрын
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.
@Barabel223 жыл бұрын
@@adamburling9551 Um, you’re being ignorant, communism OUTLAWED foot binding in China(even though it was a dying off practice by the 1930s).
@cocoanbella3 жыл бұрын
I heard it was also appealing to men because it meant your wife couldn't run away from you
@TheHellmo3 жыл бұрын
@@cocoanbella I hate the patriarchy :)
@geralt83943 жыл бұрын
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
@welsan20743 жыл бұрын
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
@AcediaIX3 жыл бұрын
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
@MrNicePotato3 жыл бұрын
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.3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@inspire7343 жыл бұрын
Probably had a foot fetish for it.
@suehackett96218 ай бұрын
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.
@magicrealism510815 күн бұрын
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
@ejiuan0073 жыл бұрын
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.
@hehe24193 жыл бұрын
@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.
@hehe24193 жыл бұрын
@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__baylee3 жыл бұрын
what a touching memory to share with us all, thank you.
@Crimetvuk3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing 🙏
@hhholly3 жыл бұрын
Awww thank u 🙏
@fireemblemaddict1283 жыл бұрын
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-levelking86103 жыл бұрын
so people really did have brains back then
@brigittecavanagh42913 жыл бұрын
So happy she had great-grandparents that were ethicals....Bravo.
@HinataUchihaInuzuka93 жыл бұрын
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.
@krstglsm3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@MacDodle3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@thealphafox64Ай бұрын
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. ^^
@A_metaphor15 күн бұрын
The thing is....read cinderella. In the 1800s even peasants bought corsets. While working all day. They still thought cutting ur foot to fit the shoe was barbaric. They moved their organs. But still managed to have 12 kids and work all day. These women can hardly move. I dont think its the same sorry. When white people think youre racist youre probably racist.
@mamamommy4211 ай бұрын
this may be somewhat off topic but the victorian corset photo at the beginning is a doctored image. they had methods of doing so even back then and most of the photos of women with wasp waists from that time were altered to give the appearance of a tiny waist. that's why she stands against a black background.
@PickleWonder2 ай бұрын
Wow…
@AmeliaEarhart537562 ай бұрын
Yes, they used pencils and stuff to "edit" photos.
@AngelineProductions2 ай бұрын
Correct. Corsets were not restrictive - they were just the precursor to the modern bra. There were a small minority of women who practiced tight-lacing, but generally corsets were not uncomfortable.
@angel7942 ай бұрын
Even some women NOW actually have ribs removed to make their waists smaller. I actually saw a woman in Washington, D.C., once who has such a tiny wasp waist that it could not have been more than about 16" circumference. Either she had a natural absence of some lower ribs or had some surgically removed. Disturbing.
@romystumpy11972 ай бұрын
Yes actually I follow historical clothing channels,and some creators make their own corsets and say they are quite comfortable, the tiny waisted images are faked
@sparkyskooter9112 жыл бұрын
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.
@Itwasnme2 жыл бұрын
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_2 жыл бұрын
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-zw8vp2 жыл бұрын
Back then some might have thought not binding her feet and making her pretty much unmarriageable was even more evil/cruel.
@xXPHO3NIXFYR33Xx2 жыл бұрын
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. ✨🙏✨💕
@xXPHO3NIXFYR33Xx2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@markalexander36592 жыл бұрын
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.
@cloakedingravity2 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many women secretly removed parts of their feet to fit the strict standards, like Gold Lotus.
@Ashley-vs8nu2 жыл бұрын
Some did cut off pieces. Intentionally or otherwise.
@lisaspikes42912 жыл бұрын
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!😩
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
Only Jesus Christ saves repent of your sins and turn to the Lord. We must be born again to enter Heaven.
@Midnight-Starfish2 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 Kind of irrelevant to the topic at hand but go off, I guess...
@cup6243 ай бұрын
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.
@NofirstnameNolastnameАй бұрын
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.
@rilius7138 Жыл бұрын
The human capacity for pure idiocy is simply astonishing and this is a perfect example of it.
@Celisar16 ай бұрын
Make that „male dominance and abuse of women“.
@combeebrian2472 ай бұрын
Thats China for you
@rilius71382 ай бұрын
@@Celisar1 Nope that is just one example.
@rilius71382 ай бұрын
@@combeebrian247 Yeah some groups of people really have a skill in tapping into that innate idiocy of humanity.
@ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv2 ай бұрын
More money than sense
@allygenelove4333 жыл бұрын
Sh*t like this, makes me feel so very very grateful for the place and century I was born into...
@averagefan29583 жыл бұрын
I was born in China and I grew up just fine as a girl. So don't say "place" just say century
@dianaval60823 жыл бұрын
@@averagefan2958 agreed! We live in better times then before.
@jfast82563 жыл бұрын
@@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_effect3 жыл бұрын
Yeah same
@placebo_effect3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@alaynar15942 ай бұрын
Imagine getting your toes broken and your foot bent in half then having to walk on it for the rest of your life
@CartePostale.27 күн бұрын
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!
@SUN_MOON_SKY933 жыл бұрын
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 .
@lzbhcvm67473 жыл бұрын
This ended like many decades ago so why are you still complaining
@batbebebe3 жыл бұрын
@@lzbhcvm6747 you're very ignorant lol
@blue15843 жыл бұрын
@@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
@iiamkodahh3 жыл бұрын
@@lzbhcvm6747 you are replying under everyone’s comment being ignorant. shut up.
@lzbhcvm67473 жыл бұрын
@@iiamkodahh I didn't stupid
@Bookworm-tk1cz2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Goodiesfanful2 жыл бұрын
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.
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
@Likorca7 ай бұрын
This actually brought a tear to my face. It's so sad. We need to learn and do better, we must.
@kaneykane34497 ай бұрын
Oh my days i was traumatised listening. Those poor children & women.
@mellio9077Ай бұрын
me too. this is horrific. 😢
@dzzhang2107 Жыл бұрын
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.
@lellovenance57024 ай бұрын
Usijali muombee kwa MUNGU apumzike kwa Aman asamehe waliofanya hayo
@emanuele57993 ай бұрын
Such a touching story... @@lellovenance5702 shut up please bring your god elsewhere
@yuvla56882 ай бұрын
Who stopped you from talking to her?
@HeyoudummyАй бұрын
@@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.
@Gernot6624 күн бұрын
@@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.
@ebonydarkness2 жыл бұрын
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.
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
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.
@sillysillygoose1112 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what
@XsraidersX2 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what
@ianybanez68842 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what
@sata92032 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what
@AndrewRyan-rd1wl9 ай бұрын
Not a foot binding story, but similiar i suppose. My great grandmother as a kid 7 or 8 maybe, lived on a farm . Her father told her to stay out the back property cus it was where they dumped garbage. One day she was playing back there and stepped on a nail, out of fear for being punished she never told her father what happened. So her foot never grew since then and as an adult she had to have special shoes made with a block underneath to compensate for the size difference. She lived to be 99 years old with the foot of an 8 year old.
@susanfromthemountains175414 күн бұрын
I'm 60 and this video is the most detailed and graphic I've ever seen. Thank you for bringing it in depth. I am thankful this tradition lost its stamina. Question. What man would want a woman with feet like that? Seriously. What does it profit him? What pleasure does he get from her grotesque feet? Among many other questions I have those are two of them. Surely men should have done the same - so they could have better appreciated the pleasure of it all even more. Look at the animals and birds and sea life. They all do life normal. Only mankind, who is supposedly endowed with higher wisdom, does not do life normally. They're always messing with it and the earth and all creation groans. It's so sad.
@theastralalliance-v3r13 күн бұрын
Fundamentally it is about total hegemonic control over and other human. Even men who didnt think that way where enticed to go along with the status quo because to buck the trend would have meant ostracisation.
@susanfromthemountains175413 күн бұрын
@@theastralalliance-v3r Thanks, you're kind to share that with me. Still... I can't imagine a man even being able to look upon those feet without some kind of repulsing feeling.
@theastralalliance-v3r13 күн бұрын
@@susanfromthemountains1754 Youre very welcome. I cannot understand it either. It was a very strange society and whist it has undoubtedly changed it is still very heavily patriarchal.
@Macil2018 Жыл бұрын
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-wf9uk6 ай бұрын
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-ct9tb3 ай бұрын
Cosmetic procedures still happen today. Make so much worse.
@truant69103 ай бұрын
deep down its all about control.
@jasonbig13533 ай бұрын
@@truant6910yes it is. They don’t want women to even go outside on their own.
@nocomment64212 ай бұрын
This happens when you vote for the right
@kiyablaise3 жыл бұрын
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!
@silverpurkat3 жыл бұрын
@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-brown33713 жыл бұрын
19:34
@xxkarlawesomex3 жыл бұрын
All only to please men in hopes for marriage 🤦🏻♀️
@speedy1z7113 жыл бұрын
Of course your a woman...
@Aziruf3 жыл бұрын
@@speedy1z711 😂
@carmenhere71952 ай бұрын
Just shows how must pain women had to endure and still do endure throughout history.
@justacat22 ай бұрын
yeahh... both genders enduree pain
@rolletroll2338Ай бұрын
@@justacat2yeah, but strangely, the most fucked up practices are always for women.
@rolletroll2338Ай бұрын
@@justacat2by the way, did you know that 84% of the lobotomies were practiced on women?
@paulhomsy27512 ай бұрын
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.
@leslijones44433 жыл бұрын
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 ....
@shortstacked19803 жыл бұрын
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@jazzlynnicole19063 жыл бұрын
omg
@kipklop9753 жыл бұрын
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.
@lzbhcvm67473 жыл бұрын
They should be controlled because China is a very conservative patriarchal society
@speedy1z7113 жыл бұрын
Of course your a woman...
@alexisgrunden15563 жыл бұрын
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.
@sometimessnarky16423 жыл бұрын
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head with your comment.
@MamasGroove3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for saying it!
@Chiara_Elena3 жыл бұрын
That makes so much sense! I haven't thought of it before.
@blueyzblue3 жыл бұрын
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.
@alexisgrunden15563 жыл бұрын
@@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~
@sherrieowens91952 ай бұрын
This is child abuse and so very sad. A child should not have to go through this ever.
@yvonneeaster3 ай бұрын
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.
@mythic_snake2 жыл бұрын
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.
@howphancy2 жыл бұрын
Same!
@ammcd20122 жыл бұрын
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 😢
@janellcrews61082 жыл бұрын
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.
@flowrangel77632 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mindlessfun48042 жыл бұрын
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
@ladykatie90112 жыл бұрын
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.
@ablackknight27442 жыл бұрын
And judging by the fact she's your grandma, she didn't have a problem finding a man who thought the same.
@l-_-ls2 жыл бұрын
😭
@nikitadondiva2 жыл бұрын
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.
@magnetiseyourhusband33382 жыл бұрын
Respect for her dad
@evan_wang2 жыл бұрын
@@ablackknight2744 Sweet Home Alabama intensifies
@justpde16 күн бұрын
Women have suffered ridiculously to please men. No hater here but it is prudent that we stand up for each other worldwide.
@mattyd3079 Жыл бұрын
I saw an elderly Chinese lady with feet like this only a couple of weeks ago (June 2023) in Melacca, Malaysia. At first i thought maybe she just had a natural deformity, until i did some research and realised it was foot binding
@Yana.-_-.3 жыл бұрын
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
@jojomang30162 жыл бұрын
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
@hadassah19842 жыл бұрын
I've never broken a toe, but a stubbed toe damn sent me to the grave 😭
@reneediaz44942 жыл бұрын
@@jojomang3016 same!
@wazzzup25792 жыл бұрын
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!
@gus78072 жыл бұрын
@@jojomang3016 you get thst cheked out
@jiayizhao8738 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
May she rip
@recensionilibri1986 Жыл бұрын
😭 it was a life full of sadness, for chinese women 😔
@irmalujan172311 ай бұрын
🥹🥹
@user-rn6pu6mc2y7 ай бұрын
And they don't do these to men😢😂
@dollylim8027Ай бұрын
It’s so disgusting that parents those days believe that foot-binding for their daughters are desired, forgetting the excruciating pain their daughters has to endure!
@crontainer89504 ай бұрын
my great grandma had bound feet :)she passed a few years ago but i think about her & her life often
@JbirdL22332 жыл бұрын
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_celeb4202 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@angelaanglin57782 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeanajett27192 жыл бұрын
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!
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
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.
@asunahusama2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Iron_Owlz2 жыл бұрын
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.
@MarlenaWieseman2 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@mindlessfun48042 жыл бұрын
I broke my toe recently. Tiny fracture. Hurt like hell.
@Gomet222 жыл бұрын
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.
@r.s0dafizz2 жыл бұрын
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
@chelleyd40202 жыл бұрын
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
@OtakuD503 ай бұрын
The interviewer is Debi Edward, and the interview footage is taken from ITV News. The lack of citation is appalling.
@melissacoxen600112 күн бұрын
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!
@jedgar66533 жыл бұрын
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.
@demontimeyt44382 жыл бұрын
No we didn't
@shedarmeromeo32812 жыл бұрын
"😵i Bet S0!"😟
@tyeshajumper44042 жыл бұрын
I learned this in World History in Texas as well
@mordecaibloodwings2 жыл бұрын
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
@karentucker21612 жыл бұрын
We didn't but I live in Florida, for world history we learned different stuff.
@cleminstine3 жыл бұрын
"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.
@rachatl213 жыл бұрын
I remember learning about it in geography
@ladyfibonaccii3 жыл бұрын
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.
@darkhorses20823 жыл бұрын
Incredible book
@cleminstine3 жыл бұрын
@@ladyfibonaccii It really was sad, I remember crying my eyes out when the duckling got mauled by the family dog.
@jot75653 жыл бұрын
imagine being an international student attending an american school in China, and learning about Chinese history.
@candacedixon6443Ай бұрын
This is so heartbreaking 💔 😢 My sympathy goes out to every girl who had to endure this painful process.
@mrslundy153511 ай бұрын
It is actually horrifying to think what male fantasy and the idea of pleasing it may end up in. Imagine your toes being boiled in hot water and then broken into an unnatural shape and you being forced to endure that pain in your teenage years, JUST TO please your future husband? And then getting left for a woman who's got more "fashionable" foot? Then they tell us to chill and stop behaving like activists all the time. This is what women went through for centuries. CENTURIES.
@matterwelonz11 ай бұрын
You have such a simplistic view of history and gender dynamics. Usually, these practices take two sides to work. Women during that time are just as likely to perpetuate this practice and other "barbaric" practices.
@mrslundy153510 ай бұрын
@@matterwelonz I don't think I have a simplistic view of it. You are right, women were also educated in a way determined by the gender roles of that time and they thought it was okay. However, when you think of it, women had no other choice than that culture. And it was the female whose foot were broken when they were toddlers. Today's beauty standards are also very harsh, but they don't affect one gender's life completely and unfixably. İt's up to the individual. You might want to be approved by the society and yet still refuse to obey the tradtional beauty rules. No one has their toddler go under plastic surgery or something just for their future. Because that would be count as child abuse. Foot binding is such a horrible horrible way to provide "beauty" and acceptance and I'm sorry but the main purpose of this tradition is based on marriage and satisfying your spouse. Which was applied on women and had an extreme impact on women's lives but not the men's.
@matterwelonz10 ай бұрын
@@mrslundy1535 You are solely using today's morality to judge yesteryear's morality, which is faulty on its on. Societal acceptance constantly change. What is okay or preferable may not be 50 years from now. You are also looking at it from a woman's point of view. Gender roles (& other societal acceptance rules) are placed on both MEN and WOMEN. In some cultures, it is required that a man work years (basically become a servant/slave) to win the approval of his parent-in-laws to marry their daughter. This brings to the point that many of these beauty standards are undertaken by those in the upper class. It's considered a privilege that those in the lower class are unable to do. This is no less different than certain woman who go under the knife many times that they end up looking like a barbie. Is that men's fault? Maybe, some of it, but I find it disingenuous that women didn't add to it. Similarly, it would be the same as in the past, and it's not as clear cut who the blame should solely be. And generally, it is women who drive the evolution of mating, not men. Women are the choosers throughout much of history.
@ñamñam-r7c10 ай бұрын
yeah but get to be treated like a citizen, as woman your just a mans property and 2nd class citizen at best. You get treated more like a human, a woman doesnt@@matterwelonz
@matterwelonz10 ай бұрын
@@ñamñam-r7c I agree. Throughout history, on a whole, men were treated better than women. Women had problems and men had problems. Men had to go to war. And most people had horrible lives (especially if your tribe had been conquered or you were poor). Even the few matriarchal societies that existed have their own problems.
@vickyferrier42653 жыл бұрын
This was torture.
@dawnie0t7933 жыл бұрын
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. 💖
@facetedperspectives99503 жыл бұрын
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.
@jamesedwards12133 жыл бұрын
Seems like more of a foot fetish that went wrong...
@Blackenedusurper3 жыл бұрын
@An On today circumcision only removes the foreskin
@thriller_enthusiast3 жыл бұрын
Imagine being 3 years old and enduring this... I feel so bad
@grifyn8823 жыл бұрын
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...
@rosieposieislove28823 жыл бұрын
@@grifyn882 3 year olds feel pain just as well if it’s that painful then they will surely remember it
@Sam-ig7ot3 жыл бұрын
@@grifyn882 young Kids can remember traumatizing things and remember it clearly for their whole lives.
@grifyn8823 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@scarletcold59582 жыл бұрын
@@grifyn882 Your subconcious mind NEVER forgets anything.
@BaryJohnson4 ай бұрын
Such an unusual aesthetic, the bound foot crevice (crevasse?) Also - their feet look like high heels, no? The unusual shape is shoe-shaped (when looking at it from the side) 🐝
@sydsquid- Жыл бұрын
This makes me so sad… my great grandmother had her feet bound which can be faintly seen in photos (her dress/skirt covered most of her feet) I wish I could go back in time and convince her parents otherwise
@maryearll33592 ай бұрын
Your wish is the best one I have ever heard ❤
@joewebb95183 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheJessC3 жыл бұрын
They're all dead by now so....
@joewebb95183 жыл бұрын
@@TheJessC good !
@joewebb95183 жыл бұрын
@ReDiAnima It's the people that make the culture..
@joewebb95183 жыл бұрын
@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
@tllgestalt19423 жыл бұрын
@@joewebb9518 As horrific as this is, you shouldn't wish death upon people, that's just as, if not more immoral than this binding.
@hollowtree2583 жыл бұрын
imagine doing all this and then only having iron lotus
@bellaciaocreations56503 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 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!
@r1sabotage3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 I know this isn't a funny topic but I'm still laughing with that statement...
@catrinahartz9443 жыл бұрын
@@bellaciaocreations5650 . I know right??
@acc21803 жыл бұрын
@@bellaciaocreations5650 average is 7-6 in ._. bruh i need help-
@bluincorporations46423 жыл бұрын
lols
@JustMe-px9qy2 ай бұрын
I have no words
@mellio9077Ай бұрын
Me too. it’s heartbreaking and horrifying.
@cecileroy5576 ай бұрын
So sad but very interesting to learn about. Those poor woman....
@RoLee7053 жыл бұрын
“You have no chance of finding love if you refuse” “Love” doesn’t sound like the right word there, pal.
@thatonekid94002 жыл бұрын
This is why I don't believe love exists. Love was defined as THIS nonsense for centuries.
@vindamawarrose95002 жыл бұрын
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
@Vegan_Tree3 жыл бұрын
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.
@eshaepperson59453 жыл бұрын
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.
@gwendolynrobinson39003 жыл бұрын
Men also wore heels in the past, it was never just a woman thing until the past century or two
@Vegan_Tree3 жыл бұрын
@@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_Tree3 жыл бұрын
@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_Tree3 жыл бұрын
@M U Well, I meant to add some punctuation and maybe an additional sentence to that last comment. At least KZfaq blinked out at a point where the sentence still made sense. Maybe it’s trying to tell me something. LOL
@paulchandler90608 ай бұрын
I wonder how many years would go by before a video about circumcision would seem horrific there are so many practices that is viewed normal that will be seen as horrific
@KennethRachel-xi7dv3 ай бұрын
Circumcision is done because the over lapping skin holds bacteria it's quite disgusting I unfortunately dated a guy once who wasn't . If they don't clean it correctly daily it's absolutely grotesque 😢
@VladimirDemetrovIlyushin3 ай бұрын
@@KennethRachel-xi7dv What? Foreskin is a natural part of the male gender. There's countless other cultures where no one had anything cut off from themselves and were perfectly fine, physical or hygienic. The fact you dated a guy who couldn't give a shit about his dick doesn't mean babies should be mutilated in the off-chance they don't wash.
@VladimirDemetrovIlyushin3 ай бұрын
@@KennethRachel-xi7dv The fact you didn't have the foresight to date a guy who cared about his hygiene doesn't mean babies should be mutilated on the off-chance they don't wash properly as teens and adults.
@KennethRachel-xi7dv3 ай бұрын
@@VladimirDemetrovIlyushin I have never looked at as mutilation to my knowledge it's for their health benefits if some have passed away that is awful truly .
@esterbun93563 ай бұрын
@@KennethRachel-xi7dv You aren't very knowledgable then, are you? Females can develop bacteria the same way males can, so should we lop off the clitoral hood? Its genital mutilation. Plain and simple. The only way circumcision would be ethical is if its for medical purposes (the foreskin is too tight around the head/its infected in some way) or if it is an adult who consents to the operation purely for aesthetic reasons. It is easy to teach your kid to wash under the hood, its impossible to undo the damages of removing your kids consent about their own body.
@debprobst33011 ай бұрын
I don't think it was beauty at all it was men ensuring women couldn't run away
@swampophelia20983 жыл бұрын
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
@idou3 жыл бұрын
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
@sorryifoldcomment85965 күн бұрын
I'm genuinely nauseous and that rarely happens just watching videos.
@amandadelcarpio63403 жыл бұрын
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
@candicandler25123 жыл бұрын
Definitely agree!
@verypettygirl3 жыл бұрын
And another time is here
@ronan37303 жыл бұрын
@@verypettygirl yah but we have anesthetics and numbing agents now so we don't have to feel pain when we disfigure ourselves
@KagomeYasha0233 жыл бұрын
There’s still female circumcision though 🤬😣
@jot75653 жыл бұрын
unrealistic body standards still exist
@bscutnik8 ай бұрын
I’m actually speechless after watching this..
@SaccoBelmonte7 ай бұрын
So bad. I'm speechless.
@a.froman14193 жыл бұрын
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..2 жыл бұрын
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
@nikkinicole54352 жыл бұрын
Same girl, grateful for My big ass feet.
@h0pe9172 жыл бұрын
Big or small it's all good
@champ70282 жыл бұрын
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
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
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.
@jeanproctor36633 жыл бұрын
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.
@jackierash96803 жыл бұрын
I was what the MEN wanted
@MadamoftheCatHouse3 жыл бұрын
Now we are told to respect this type of atrocities in the name of multiculturalism.🙄😬🤷
@Pabloto-dq3sx3 жыл бұрын
@@MadamoftheCatHouse uuuhhhh what?
@FrozenMermaid6663 жыл бұрын
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!
@FrozenMermaid6663 жыл бұрын
All the betas/womeb deserve the _ because of their criminaI actions, and they never should've bred.
@mabelregimal54079 ай бұрын
This makes me so sad.
@melissagreen_12 күн бұрын
Imagine the long term psychological effects on even future generations, I'm certain this must have had long standing effects felt even to this day because you don't get tortured as a 3 or 4 year old and come out mentally ok.
@elainekent70263 жыл бұрын
I cannot comprehend why parents would do this to their daughters. It's barbaric.
@franksu97353 жыл бұрын
Poor families sold their daughters to the rich as play things, Chinese culture is based on slavery and fear.
@1LuvMLPFiM3 жыл бұрын
A lot of despicable and inhumane things that won't pass today were the norms decades and centuries ago.
@apearchitect5583 жыл бұрын
@Retro Rose what do you mean by that?
@apearchitect5583 жыл бұрын
@Retro Rose so parents change their child’s genders for no reason? i have never heard of this.
@apearchitect5583 жыл бұрын
@Retro Rose ohhh wait you’re talking about transgenderism?
@AJBigJJ3 жыл бұрын
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.
@codybrox46933 жыл бұрын
So in your opinion do you think foot binding is still going on in China to this day?
@winterrain67813 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@brigittecavanagh42913 жыл бұрын
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.
@AJBigJJ3 жыл бұрын
@@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)
what is seriously going through the mind of an adult while they're doing this to a child
@msluvan46342 ай бұрын
Bless these women 💖💖💖
@martinphilip89983 жыл бұрын
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.
@leonidandreca26703 жыл бұрын
I never knew this existed, thats why traditions aren’t always good for us.
@sariahlace59443 жыл бұрын
Exactly true. We always think,that tradition is the only way to go.
@ferretglobal9573 жыл бұрын
Well yes because stuff like this is not ok
@yukae28783 жыл бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👌🏾
@jadelance3 жыл бұрын
They hardly are tbh unless if they're something inherently harmless
@voxtur__73 жыл бұрын
That's what I say: "don't break rules. Break traditions."
@ruth_southernstar8 күн бұрын
It's outrageous this man had to wait 20 years for this life changing treatment.
@Tooma8Channel Жыл бұрын
Our women deserve better
@lizxu3222 жыл бұрын
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 ❤
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
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.
@lizxu3222 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what part of my comment asked
@skully.10522 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 huh?
@francescoandreini6432 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 ratio
@JP-np8fj2 жыл бұрын
@@francescoandreini643 Massively incredible L
@Darjeelingla3 жыл бұрын
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’.
@monicafox37372 жыл бұрын
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.
@Thatoneperson3952 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 what
@cxlappsed15482 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 maybe don't bring religion into stuff like this
@fauxhuman02 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 shut up this has nothing to do with christianity
@nex8652 жыл бұрын
@@monicafox3737 least annoying christian
@crystalroseblue67608 ай бұрын
I at age 76 suffer from bad painfull feet,... broken toes not set,fallen arches,arthrites,small tumour in padding behind toes of both feet,causing peroidocly numness in middle toes and pain in foot sole arch,heal spurs growing inward towards arches pain in heals, ....but I have it easy compared to these poor women....my God the argony they must suffer all their lives.and to do that to a child.....and your own.horific cruel evil.....and for what...it looks hideous and ugly.
@dafulegend59053 ай бұрын
My mom (Chinese) always told me horror stories about this, where it happened to my great great grandmother. But seeing it for the first time here in this video is. 😳
@crochetingglamma40553 жыл бұрын
My heart breaks for all those women that had to bind their feet and go through this pain just for men to want them.
@AcediaIX3 жыл бұрын
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
@edabella1433 жыл бұрын
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 :-(.
@zoviqi24522 жыл бұрын
@@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
@zoviqi24522 жыл бұрын
@@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
@noearchiviste552 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@cloudyxsxies5832 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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!”
@marianparoo154420 күн бұрын
I learned about it in Andrea Dworkin's book, decades ago.
@mirandafitch10132 ай бұрын
Terrible that they went through this all to achieve a smaller looking foot. These poor children that went through this I can’t imagine .