Sunday, November 18, 2007

Foot Binding and Corsets would put me into Hysteria so that I would have to get Breat Implants

So there is a really nifty seeming play called The Waiting Room. Its is about women in the waiting room and it covers concepts like: Foot Binding, corsets, hysteria, and breast implants.

Foot Binding: It just grossed me out. I kept on thinking, wouldn't that hurt like mad? This is how they did the foot Binding process.
"A young girl between the ages four and seven would have her feet bound by the mother and grandmother so that they would not grow anymore, and would sometimes even get smaller. The girl's feet were dipped in animal blood or warm water and cotton or silk bandages were wrapped tightly around the girl's feet. Usually the four smallest toes were broken to help with the process. While binding tightly the girl's grandmother and mother would also break the arch of the foot to have the foot form the golden lotus shape. A three to four inch foot was the ideal size for women in China and it was thought that only poor girls had 'big' normal feet."
The pictures completely did it for me, I truly would never want to do that but if that is your culture and you know no difference I suppose you can't argue.

Corsets: Let's see I would use the fainting couches every time I stood up. Well if I wore it correctly and for the correct amount of time I suppose I would be fine even though it doesn't sound like much fun.
  • Lack of abdominal musical
  • Floating ribs
  • Broken ribs
  • Ribs that puncture organs
  • Deformation of the stomach
  • Deformation of the liver
  • The pushing of the uterus out through the vagina
  • Reduced ability to breath
All that is what would happen if you wore it for to long of a time or you wore one that was the wrong size.

Hysteria: So hysteria is a weird concept, well the fixing of it is.
"the primary treatment was to undergo pelvic massage,ù wherein a doctor would simulate the patient's genitals until achieving "hysterical paroxysm"ù which is now understood to simply be an orgasm. Eventually doctors grew tired of spending so much time stimulating their patients and began to urge women to purchase newly-developed personal vibrators."
So that would be a really weird experience indeed.

Beast Implants: Lets see it is done nowadays to fix a person that had to undergo surgery to get them removed because of cancer. But every once in a while someone will want to obtain larger breasts. I personally think it depends on the age of the girl, and her body shape and size on how big her breast are, but apparently little breasts are bad.

1890s: Some surgeons began labeling small breasts as “deformed”
1940s: Some doctors began claiming that small-breasted women suffer extreme "neuroses” due to their breast size
1957: The American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) named “micromastia” (small breasts) as a medical problem
1983: ASPRS issued a statement about small breasts that read, “There is substantial and enlarging medical knowledge to the effect that these deformities are really a disease which result in teh patient's feelings of inadequacy, lack of self-confidence, distortion of body image, and a total lack of well-being due to a lack of perceived femininity."

So the role of every woman having to have or get big breasts started a long time ago and it wasn't because of cancer.

Click on the words below to get to the Foot Binding link and from there you can find where I got the other information.
Foot Binding, corsets, hysteria, and breast implants

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