Well, I just have to make a comment here, too.  One of the things I learned
at the Dallas AAM conference was how they get the horses and bulls to
buck.  Talk about binding!  The rodeo I went to was my first REAL rodeo,
and it had never occurred to me before--duh!  Women have suffered much
through the ages, but it is inhumane to treat animals that way, too.  Love
those cowboys!

LH


At 01:57 PM 5/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I have heard some of the criticisms and criticisms of the criticisms for the
>practice of footbinding. As a female, I will say this. There have been many
>rough practices that females have gone through,that relates to some aesthetic
>nature. I am not extremely familiar with footbinding, but I have studied that
>practice some when I took a class in non-western culture. It doesn't take a
>rocket scientist to see that footbinding had to have been painful and
>damaging to one's body part. I remember studying about women using a corset
>to shrink their waist to an unimaginable size for aesthetic reasons, some of
>those women suffered permanent damages, I wonder about the permanent damages
>of footbinding. I am not condemning a whole culture because of some of these
>practices, but it is disturbing thinking about the permanent damage one can
>do their feet when they engage in footbinding. Even if this practice was
>accepted by the aristocracy and the general public, there were a lot of
>things accepted by those same groups in many cultures that was inhumane and
>just plain wrong. The best we can do is to love the variety of cultural
>history, but learn from them also.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>MC
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