Why is it that in so many male-dominated societies they've found a way to hobble women?

For thousands of years the Japanese bound women’s feet. This, of course, effectively crippled them.

Until fairly recently women and girls were expected to wear dresses which is limiting. Why dresses? Easy access?

This past weekend we were camping. A church group was out there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’m pretty sure they were all related, and there were a lot of them.

ALL of the women, and girls, wore skirts that came below the knee. The boys wore regular clothes and ran around being rambunctious, but the girls couldn’t even take a full stride much less run or ride a bike or climb a tree. They were hobbled in a way.

Why? Are men that scared of us? Why? And why do we women stand for it? Because they’ll beat us up if we don’t comply?