I'm giving a presentation about foot binding (the origins, actual process, reasons behind it, etc), and need to have some discussion questions to ask my classmates at the end. But I just can't think of anything! Urgh.
Any tips?
How could a mother do the process on her own daughter, when she already had lived the pain of the gruesome process of foot binding?
Mothers won't let their sons marry a girl whose foot was not bound: Isn't it woman the enemy of woman?
1. What do you think of sexual perverts who are attracted to handicaped people unable to run, jump and play basketball?
2. Would you want to be one of those girls?
3. If there is a natural disaster, like flood or fire, how is that girl supposed to march 10 or 15 miles to save her life?
4. Taking into consideration that the procedure of binding took muchthought provoking questions to ask time every few days, how would you spend your time more productively?
5. What happened to the girl's internal organs after centre of gravity was out of the natural position?
6. What was the longevity rate of those poor crocks?
7. What was the percentage of miscarriages, due to the wrong position of the baby in the abdomen?
8. Would it be simpler just to cut a piece of foot to make it tiny stump instead of regular and painful binding?
9. What dances were possible to perform with such feet?
10. Would palm binding be as much intriguing? I mean a person with feet and palms all binded must represent a total dream of sadistic tyrant who only wants to see a helpless crippled animal instead of a healthy woman, fast and limber.
It is obvious to me that foot binding is about binding the mouth of the women andthought provoking questions to ask symbolically binding the life of a person. It is the cry of the silent. It is the suppression of the flow and ebb of a women's beauty. She becomes property and service. She is a no show for her own fricking party.
1. What do you think about extreme body modification? Pro's/Cons
2. How do you think this custom originated?
3. What extreme body modification is still going on today?
Ask them how they think it relates to the things people do to themselves nowadays.
Plastic surgery, boob jobs, piercings, etc..
What do you think of tattoos, lip and tongue piercing by people today, when you compare it to Chinese Foot Binding.
Peer pressure to follow established convention.
Objectification of women then, vs now.
"How does foot binding make you feel?"
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