Foot binding: Painful Beauty

The concept and establishment of foot binding is both discomforting, as well as unnatural. Coming from a 21st century perspective, it is hard to find beauty from something that looks similar to mutilation. Physically it is insulting for a woman's natural beauty, by altering their natural and biological physique. Emotionally, it puts men in this nasty and misogynistic standpoint, in which they control the women. From merely submitting the bottom piece of their body, they disable their ability to essentially walk away from their partner. In a sense they are bound to their men, as well as to their bindings themselves.