Ciel mentioned it months ago in the chapter 88 though, so we all pretty much knew :P. I guess you could've just skipped the page without giving it much attention, so here it is:
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kuroshitsuji/an/v18/c088/pg-15/
Yana wanted be creative and added a Chinese twist to Kuro... from wiki: feet binding- 'women from wealthy families who did not need them to work could afford to have their feet bound.' Also it was a part of Chinese culture at the time, to call it a "nasty practice" is very insulting. It's no different from saying Hijab is weird. I'm not trying to offend you.
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Well, it's a nasty practice in the sense that it's very unhealthy... They banned it for a good reason in 1912. So not sure who she's insulting lol. Hijab, at least to my knowledge, isn't unhealthy. It's just a scarf you put on your head.
Heh, I might have missed that page @Lightasus, and to @tokidoki, I am not offended, I have just always thought that making a woman into a helpless object is rather unfortunate, no matter which culture does it (many practices - such as female circumcision and such are included on my list - I don't like being objectified, and do not like seeing other females objectified either, regardless of class or culture). Guess that makes me a feminist. LOL
when I read that chapter again, I lol-ed at myself. That's exactly how I did when I was living in Germany while couldn't speak German fluently.... XD I felt Ciel so well....
Well, what I was trying to say was that I don't think it's a nasty practice. I'm from Chinese descent and I find it rather culturally biased to just go and say things that can offend others. It's no different than saying x is weird because it's different from what I believe. So, I was just trying to say that I find it rather offensive to call it nasty, maybe a different word choice such as, it's different or unique.
healthy or not, has nothing to do with culture. I was trying to say that opinions can offend, that's all.
Opinions can offend? Really? I am part Chinese, so I just slandered my gramps, but he thinks that this practice was very cruel, his grandmother had this done to her and spent her life as a cripple. I call that nasty. And that is the last I will comment on this. (so you don't need to reply with an attack on my personal moral stance)
You know, broken bones sure hurt you can trust me on that, one of my friend had her knee broken and they put her in a wheelchair, then gave her crutches and morphine for a year so that she could bear it. So breaking the archs of the feets and sometimes toes, then painfully binding them with a cloth more tighly each time, and then having to walk long distances on them so that their weight crushed them in the correct shape... oooooouuuuuuch, poor girls!! Wealthy people would make a professionnal do it, which was even more horrible because they ignored they childrens' cries and bound them that much more tightly. Some even got them infected, since they were hard to wash. There was even an old chinese women who said she was sad she couldn't dance and do stuff freely :( (and many many more felt that way)... It's sad that they were born with a healthy body but had to ruin it because of peer pressure... If thinking constant pain and and being disabled sucks makes me culturally biased, then please call me that. But of course, let's just call this practice unique...
Is anyone else a little bothered by the suggestion that the Green Witch's feet have been bound? The small feet bothered me from the beginning, but I thought it was the drawing style until the recent update suggesting Chinese footbinding (nasty practice)