Comments on: Bound By Tradition

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:03:28 +0000

This article silently raises a big question about our culture.

What common activities today will be viewed as barbaric in the future?

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:50:45 +0000

I’m back.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Mon, 27 May 2019 02:33:31 +0000

Just checking back in.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 12:26:41 +0000

I should also mention that Ripley’s recently had an article about foot binding. This article is far superior.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:08:01 +0000

Since my last post, segments of another so-called culture has become known for its barbaric treatment of women. Because I don’t want to be labeled as a hater, I will just say that their religion drives all that they do. And, when they immigrate to the U.S., they bring their old customs and practices with them. Disgusting.

By: Peter Ole Kvint

Peter Ole Kvint — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 01:36:25 +0000

This story is a blend of different elements.
The upper class women lived a harem’s prison. Where they never went, but were carried around the house. They were not chained and could run away without anyone holding them. But they could not return if they had run away and could find it difficult to create a new life outside of the harem. Because all ordinary women worked hard.
It was therefore an advantage for them that they were bad to go.
The only two qualifications to become harem’s lady were small feet and an ability to get bored. It was the mothers who tied their little girls’ feet as a form of education for the girls.

By: ChrisFrank

ChrisFrank — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:29:56 +0000

Read about this practice in the good earth by pearl s. buck in English honors. Aside from the social status I really don’t see how this could possibly be attractive. The fact that one could put a child through so much pain without any sort of relief is downright scary

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 08:48:43 +0000

Yes, the Snow Flower and the Secret Fan piece focusing on foot binding gave me nightmares. It is hard to grasp a concept that calls for deforming women and children (face it – it’s mostly women that undergo such horrors. Who could spare a healthy male for so many years as he deforms nicely?).
Make circumcision is painful to the baby boy but it passes quickly enough compared to other torments and the lifelong repercussions are seen as mostly “missed opportunities” rather than “perennial suffering”. Better? Debatable but definitely different.

I guarantee the religion-isn’t-horrible comment aimed at disproving another comment that spoke against Faithers
was written by a religious person. I have never come across a sound defense that addressed how religion was NOT bad/wrong/not of good sense that was written by a person who was not of a religious bent. I may make comments declaring certain ways of certain cultures as necessary for their time or otherwise beneficial (foot binding definitely is not one!) but I have never heard an atheist defending a religion’s particular idiocyncracy or more. We (the heathens!) are often capable of accepting how a people develop so we are not unable to understand your rites, sacraments, etc. They simply rarely make sense and are therefore not to be viewed the same way. Mayan men may have made themselves crosseyed but that makes infinitely more sense to me than viewing a baby as covered in sin.
(Note: I was a Presbyterian Elder so my knowledge isn’t akin to an outside stone-thrower for whatever that means).

By: rajesh

rajesh — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:08:58 +0000

the article was gross . However each and every culture on earth has its share of bad practises . Generation after generation , we are continually moving away from such heineous acts which were once the religious or cultural dogma . We should indeed be grateful for the times we live in .

But not everything is done .

However slow and tedious the process, any soceity will change once the individuals change .

Instead of focusing on a singular example of outdated practise still followed we should take ownership of the way of life of us as individuals and of those small number of people in whose lives we can exercise a positive infulence .

This is the single most important thing that history teaches us .

By: oksari

oksari — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:02:50 +0000

I believe and know that Female Genitale Mutilation is totally wrong and horrible!! And I am completely against it!! There is a lot of proof that it leads to countless physical and psychological problems and that it can even lead to death!! However, male circumcision if done properly and at the right time is not a danger at all!! If you are interested to see why you can read the following discoveries that scientist have made on the subject!! And as an added extra!! It seems it can actually be quite a very beneficial and life saving practice to carry out!! Check it out!! :D

http://www.trosch.org/the/circumcision-cancer.pdf