Posted 3/25/2007 10:40:00 PM by Douglas

When you're all set to complain about uncomfortable shoes, why don't you just go ahead and shut your fucking pie-hole.

Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China's southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911.

Ouch.

OK, ladies, when you're all set to say that Western American Culture™ is the denigrator of all feministic values, please, for the sake of your sisters, remember, the half billion Chinese. And Muslim. And Africans. And South Americans. And Indians. Pretty much any place that doesn't give women an opportunity to be outraged by this crap. . . Yeah, cry for them, because they don't have the luxury to know the discomfort of a 6" stiletto. If only.