The Ways Women Have Suffered for "Beauty" Is Mind-Blowing
Female beauty has required unimaginable suffering over the ages
I read a lot, and sometimes, what I read takes me down a scary rabbit hole. Last week, this happened with “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.”
The book is set in 15th-century China. It starts off with the main character's mother dying a gruesome death from an infection in her bound foot.
The unbelievably cruel practice of foot…
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