THE BOOK OF
CHINKS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE GREAT WALL
The Chinks try to civilize women
Chapter 8
eThe Chinks had a lot of ideas about how to civilize women,
2fWhich worked better than most of the ways other peoples have tried.
3gFor example, Chink women were always supposed to walk behind their husbands,
4hBecause every civilized man knows that women are supposed to be obedient and polite and not talk all the time,
5iOr at least walk far enough behind you that you can’t hear them talking all the time.
6jAnd when that didn’t work, they thought up even more exotic ways of helping women to be civilized,
7kLike binding their feet,
8lFrom birth,
9mSo that they couldn’t walk very far,
10nAt least not without a lot of pain,
11oWhich made it harder for them to talk all the time.
12pAnd Chink women were also taught a lot of nice cultural stuff,
13qLike painting,
14rAnd music,
15sAnd sexual techniques,
16tWhich made them civilized enough to live in the royal court,
17uWhere they could have one of two jobs,
18vNamely, they could be a wife,
19wOr a concubine,
20xNot that it really mattered which,
21yBecause both jobs had about the same duties,
22zAnd any man could have as many of either or both as he wanted.
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