SYSK Selects: How Foot Binding Worked

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Once in a while, all the necessary factors converge to produce a peculiar nationalized sexual fetish. In China, that fetish was foot binding and over a millennia three billion Chinese women's feet were brutally disfigured for men's pleasure.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S. AlexaX, I've chosen how
0:36.0	foot binding worked.
0:37.4	It's about an unusual practice that was tradition for about a thousand years in China and it's
0:43.4	just absolutely fascinating.
0:45.8	Were we a little judgey or the usual in this episode?
0:49.3	I would say that it's a fair assessment, but hopefully you won't judge us too harshly
0:53.9	and instead just enjoy this episode because it's a pretty good one.
0:58.1	Take care.
1:03.1	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
1:09.9	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:14.7	I'm Josh Clark.
1:15.7	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there and it's time for Stuff You Should
1:20.6	Know.
1:21.6	Everybody.
1:22.6	So it's settled down.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.