Saturday, April 15, 2006

Let's go back to foot bounding

There are underground providers of Botox injection in North America and PAAG breast argumentation in China. In both of these cases, people have gotten seriously sick and die after receiving the injections. This proves once and for all that people in both side of the pacific are essentially the same—vain, cheap and gullible. It is a crazy enough idea to have a doctor inject a neural toxin or pints of industrial gels into ones body, but it is quadruple crazy to have your dumber-than-a-bat neighbourhood beautician. I remembered people used to react in horror when the issue of foot bounding came up. The fact that many of those people were wearing heels shows how far we had come. Now, with Botox and PAAG, foot bounding seems very civilized. Surely foot bounding is horrible and unjustifiable practise that causes massive pain and physical deformity, it is at least not lethal. Botox, however, is one of the most deadly toxins; and PAAG is Hydrophilic Polyacrylamide, just the name is scary enough. Most of the women suffered from foot bounding had no choice in the matter. The recipients of Botox and PAAG voluntarily put them into their bodies and cause them to deform, risking severe health consequence. We certainly have progressed, but to a different direction than expected. Now, the foot bounding mentality has been fully internalized—no one has to force it onto anyone. Weather this is forward or backward, I am not sure. Maybe there is an upside to it. If these chemical product leaks out of the body, Botox would cause paralysis and acrylamide damage the male reproductive glands. Perhaps they can serve as a form of birth control. And that is a benefit foot bounding cannot provide.

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