fashionable heights

[Ejudy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05LEGS.h-
tml

What a perverse and strange fashion.

ejudy

[Anne V. Gi]

ejudy:

"ejudy" <ejudy@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05L-
> EGS.html
>
>
> What a perverse and strange fashion.

Bone stretching? Gaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!! Sounds like they're
reverting to the bad old days of footbinding(only this seems
to be a more equal opportunity torture). I guess *I* wouldn't
get anywhere in China because I'm short and sweet, and I think
I'll just stay that way, thank you very much. Anne G

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On Sun, 5 May 2002, ANNE V. GILBERT wrote:

>ejudy:

>"ejudy" <ejudy@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05LE-
>> GS.html

>> What a perverse and strange fashion.

>Bone stretching? Gaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!! Sounds like they're
>reverting to the bad old days of footbinding(only this seems
>to be a more equal opportunity torture). I guess *I* wouldn't
>get anywhere in China because I'm short and sweet, and I
>think I'll just stay that way, thank you very much. Anne G

But look at what a future they have a models for
artists doing fashion drawings. Which is a comment
upon the potential attractiveness of the feature as it
is emulated today.

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[Lorenzo L.]

"ANNE V. GILBERT" wrote:
>
> ejudy:
>
> "ejudy" <ejudy@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:46e43451.0205051034.52b927be@posting.google.com...
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05LE-
> > GS.html
> >
> >
> > What a perverse and strange fashion.
>
> Bone stretching? Gaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!! Sounds like they're
> reverting to the bad old days of footbinding(only this
> seems to be a more equal opportunity torture). I guess *I*
> wouldn't get anywhere in China because I'm short and
> sweet, and I think I'll just stay that way, thank you very
> much. Anne G
>

This type of idiocy isn't unusual. Adult circumcision is
becoming the fashionable thing to do in Japan. And then
there is the mostly American fad of piercings. Looking back
at the long history of body mutilations for aesthetic
reasons, it seems that the more things change, the more
things stay the same.

Lorenzo L. Love http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove

An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A
pessimist fears that this is true.

[Bob Keeter]

in article
infB8.8282$x61.341458075@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com, ANNE V.
GILBERT at avgilbert@prodigy.net wrote on 5/5/02 2:04 PM:

Snip. . . . . . . .
>
> Bone stretching? Gaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!! Sounds like they're
> reverting to the bad old days of footbinding(only this
> seems to be a more equal opportunity torture). I guess *I*
> wouldn't get anywhere in China because I'm short and
> sweet, and I think I'll just stay that way, thank you very
> much. Anne G

Or the "straightened" skulls of Central and South American
indian cultures (apparently from being bound tightly to a
board as a baby. . .)
http://www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/worldvie6c.htm

Or the streached necks of the Karen,
http://welcome-to.chiangmai-chiangrai.com/lngneck.htm

Or the distinded lips of the Mursi
http://faculty.coloradomtn.edu/jeschofnig/mursi.htm

or the scarification and tatooing of the south Pacific
islanders http://www.tamoko.org.nz/artists/tumoko/

OR Phyllis Dillers "facials". . . . .

Its amazing the depth we go to satisfy the current "tastes"
in terms of physical beauty! I think I agree whole-heartedly
with your sentiment even if Im reasonably tall, and
decidedly sour! 8-)

Regards bk

[Ejudy]

"ANNE V. GILBERT" <avgilbert@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> ejudy:
>
> "ejudy" <ejudy@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:46e43451.0205051034.52b927be@posting.google.com...
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05LE-
> > GS.html
> >
> >
> > What a perverse and strange fashion.
>
> Bone stretching? Gaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!! Sounds like they're
> reverting to the bad old days of footbinding(only this
> seems to be a more equal opportunity torture). I guess *I*
> wouldn't get anywhere in China because I'm short and
> sweet, and I think I'll just stay that way, thank you very
> much. Anne G
>
>

Yeah, makes you wonder if humans didn't cause a great many of
their own deadends by pushing "fashion consciousness" a wee
bit too far. But you'd think highly "educated" modern humans
wouldn't be going in for trying to dupe nature by way of
painfully sawing their legs in two and hoping they will get
to walk strait after years of healing to put on a mere couple
of inches.

How many inches of difference in adult height can high
nutrition make compared to malnourishment?

Blind to the whims of FASHION and opinion, bias is easier
to detect.

ejudy