r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Decim_98 • 3d ago

Image Fate and Feet: Three Chinese Girls in 1900s – A Barefooted Servant, a Bound-Foot Lady, and a Christian with Unbound Feet

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 3d ago edited 3d ago

The fact that this woman went into detail about these atrocities with her granddaughter makes me feel like she (whether consciously or not) wants this knowledge to be passed down in some way. It’s the kind of thing that might not be for everyone and that they’d have to discuss the comfort levels. It could be OP writing these stories down with or without grandmas help, it could be a voice recording, it could be a video, it could be an interview between OP and their grandma. Maybe this is the kind of thing they just make and keep safe and maybe after we’re all long gone someone down the line finds it? Maybe they share with family members? Maybe she’s comfortable with a wider audience, posting online or sharing directly with anthropologists or historians who focus on this period of time?

I don’t know them, I don’t know their grandmother, and I don’t know your grandmother. I never implied it would be easy and actually explicitly acknowledged the difficulty, it was simply a suggestion. Years ago my mom and grandmother participated in a project where they had my mom interview my grandmother and recorded it. She didn’t go through anything quite so violent but did experience her own difficulties and that project is what gave me the idea.

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u/buzzbuzzbuzzitybuzz 1d ago

She just wants to share it it's natural thing to do and therapeutic like sharing any of our bad times/traumas stories. That way she doesn't feel alone in her nightmare.