a footnote on Cinderella

The Cinderella myth is considered to have originated from China, readily infer-able since foot-binding to keep higher class women’s feet and a child’s size the point of nigh total debilitation was considered a thing of beauty. Hence Cinderella’s foot must be diminutive; however there is precious little digression between this practice the West regards as uncivilized, and the modern practice of binding woman’s feet in astronomically high heels, once again debilitating and injuring them as a beauty standard, if not to the same extreme. “Can you run? I think not.”)