A lot of things go into that. Rebellion is NOT the common response to oppression. "Women not people" was not a view held only by men. Also this is the dark side of of small group solidarity. If there is a separate woman's culture, and there is a form of suffering all upper class women go through (especially one tied to a ritual) then it becomes part of the culture, part of becoming a woman. From the point of view of the women inflicting it, not binding the feet of the little girl would be to do her a horrible injustice , leave her forever a child, forever lower class.
I would imagine generations of women said something along the following line with absolute sincerity: "I went though this and, though there is pain sometimes, I am better for it. And it will be the same for you dear one. Don't I always do what's best for you? There's a good girl. "
I need product recs for helping them grow and get strong.
The Colombian stuff I got at my nail place really worked, but it's made of formaldehyde, so maybe you don't want that....
...so, I may have full-sized feet, but I do voluntarily put formaldehyde on my hands regularly.
I hung my stained glass. Now to decide if I want the frame flush with the window frame (thus no direct light to the top of the glass) or full sunlight which means bottom window pane comes partway up the glass. Hmmm.
I'm kinda tired. Ever since I went out today, I've been going. Grocery shopping, target, laundry started, swam 54 laps, more laundry, clean front room floors, go through mail, make bed, hang glass (power tools!) and now....must relax.
From this I have learned that the Empress Dowager Lu is officially the historical personage I would least want to have as an enemy as evidenced by her treatment of the rival Concubine Qi. (I won't even link to it. It's too horrible.)
This story is in
The Cartoon History of the Universe
(a series of books I highly recommend). In the book, Lu's son, upon seeing what his mother has done, says, "Mother, this--this is inhuman!" Lu humphs and says, "Could an animal have thought of it?"
I would imagine generations of women said something along the following line with absolute sincerity: "I went though this and, though there is pain sometimes, I am better for it. And it will be the same for you dear one. Don't I always do what's best for you? There's a good girl."
Also FGM. It's always the women who perpetrate this atrocity on the next generation. I get a glimpse of some kind of logic once in a while. But it goes away in all the horrified inability to conceive of deliberately disabling anybody's child.
