No stilettos, but unless I’m walking the dog or going to the gym, I wear two-inch heels all the time. Comfortable, pretty, and I can still outrun the terrorists.
Guy here. My gf calls them chasemecatchmefuckme pumps. I like them.
I know this is your opinion and everyone has a right to an opinion and all that…I guess it’s just surprising to me that people would somehow see a correlation between intelligence and preference of shoe. I have overtly stated my hatred for those peep-toe boots, but I don’t think I would go so far as to assume that someone wearing them had a lower IQ.
I dunno. I should know better than to venture into threads about anything traditionally categorized as “girly”. It ends up upsetting me because I just don’t get how or why some people have to stereotype anyone who likes heels, purses, or makeup as dumb, shallow, fluffy, and squealy (someone always eventually says something about girls squealing over nail polish or some such rot).
Because they are so clearly bad for your feet, generally hurt your feet (according to all the women I have met that moan about them) and force the person wearing them properly that they cant even walk properly (ie. They cannot roll from heel to toe, instead doing a more robotic lift, move, lower movement).
I generally question the intelligence of people who can’t imagine any reason people might feel differently than they do other than stupidity.
How is that closed mind working for you?
Which leads to a foot massage at the end of the evening, which leads to…(imagination, folks). WIN/WIN
Yes, I must be stupid for wanting to prevent crippling knee pain when I go out dancing.
Male-don’t like them at all. If I wear anything over 2 inches high I look like a drunken ostrich.
How can you say that?! That’s just so, so hurtful. If I can totter as far as the bedroom I may have to cry myself to slee…oh no, wait, that’s right: I don’t care.
OK, can give you some of these points more easily than I can give others less grounded-in-reality points (girlies always squeal when talking about makeup, etc). But I kind of doubt that, right next to the spot in hell reserved for the hijackers who slammed into the Twin Towers, there’s a spot for women with achy feet.
Let’s face it—shoes can hurt at any height. I was wearing mary janes with a 1/8" heel today and now mt knees are killing me. Yes, it was a dumbass move, because those (lack of) heels are always bad news for me.
Maybe you should consider peep toe boots.
Not without a decent pedicure.
Did I expect you to care? There was a poll, opinions were asked. I gave mine and then I expanded slightly upon it when asked.
Frankly it is rather self centred of you to assume that your opinion comes into it at all.
Everyone is judgemental about something. Me? I’m judgemental about people that wear high heels, especially those that do so and then moan about it.
The stupidity comes from looking at what high heels look like, how they screw up someone’s posture, the way it screws up the balance of pressure on the foot and how it makes someone unable to walk properly.
In my opinion doing that for a fashion item makes you an idiot.
Well as long as you realize you’re ridiculous to the point of cuckoo-nuts that you equate intelligence with footwear…
Seriously though - and male here btw, in case anyone got mixed up - I wore this pair of boots to my company D&D two years ago, and DAMN they looked amazing. Trashy amazing, yes, but amazing nonetheless. Danced in them, too.
If that night was even a tenth of what heels do for women, well, I know why most women wear heels.
I’m wearing them again this year!
If you get ones that fit and know how to wear them they don’t hurt at all. There is no torture involved.
I answered “no”, but to tell the truth I don’t see them around much anymore. But usually it is a detriment, because I don’t even like the way it accentuates the body. Usually if a woman looks good in her face and upper body she will also look good from the waist down.
Although, in theory, if a woman had a nice face but was sort of fat and wide and untoned, high heels might make her increase a couple points on the 1-10 scale. But for most already-good-looking women, it makes them look too lanky and thin.