History's Football

Adam's rib, no focal substance of her
own manifestly subservient in the role
given her as an afterthought, a helpmeet
a means by which humankind expands
who should know her place as more than
adequately fleshed out by those superior
in thought and muscular strength seriously
tasked with ensuring she be monitored
and gratefully accede to her allotted roles.
Those roles come complete with guidelines
the hierarchy of cultural dominance and 
the prominence of expected submission
not to arouse the indignant rage of the
guardians of public morality. And so in
China the focus was on aristocratic
admiration for dainty feet tormented
from childhood into the agony of 
exquisitely small footwear. Social
evolution mandated high and slender
heels leading to other kinds of foot
deformities in the interests of alluring
femininity. Yet lest women revert to their
animalistic nature of rhythmic desire to
augment their fecundity genital mutilation
and the pain of coupling and childbirth
remind them of their obligatory duties and 
sacrifices willingly undertaken for the 
greater satisfaction of the ultimate gender.