And my point is that, on the continuum of shoe insanity, with comfortable, sensible shoes at one end, and pointe shoes that actually damage the foot, heels are a lot closer to the latter than the former. And anyone who claims that heels are actually “comfortable” has a huge credibility wall to scale.
Someone - maybe here - tells the story of visiting friends in Paris and going to Versailles. They did a lot of walking, across cobblestones, in sneakers and were exhausted at the end of the day. Their hostess was wearing stiletto heels, and breezed through Versailles.
You get used to them and they don’t become uncomfortable. They DO cause foot and leg issues if worn every single day for years and years, but few women wear nothing but tall heels.
I find a lot of tennis shoes actually “uncomfortable” - the vast majority of my time is spent in very lightweight Italian flats - and my “go to” tennis shoe is a paid of Keds. So wearing that much shoe - bulky and heavy and tied relatively tight - can be difficult. When I was running, I got used to wearing a lot of shoe (and running shoes are light), but I still wouldn’t wander around the house in them. I’m more comfortable in heels than I am in a pair of athletic shoes.
Now, the flats I wear are lightweight and flat - but they have almost no arch support or padding. So for someone who is used to arch support, they aren’t comfy at all.
In the summer, I wear a pair of Choco sandals out a lot. The brand is known for its high and frankly unforgiving arch support. They are the most comfortable sandals I’ve ever owned - after the first two weeks of summer.
I’ve had Doc Marten’s on my feet exactly once - I know a lot of people swear by them, but bulky, heavy and unforgiving. Not my shoe type. I tried Keen sandals and really wanted to love them (my husband swears by his) and discovered that they hit me in the ankle bone.
I know people who swear by hiking boots, or cowboy boots, or motorcycle boots, and people who think that flip flops are God’s gift to footwear (I can’t STAND that thing between my toes, its actually painful - my sister has - I’m not kidding - at least 50 pair of flip flops).
I don’t think any shoes are inherently comfortable to all people, and until you’ve walked a mile in someone else’s - or made an effort to develop a level of comfort with them - or acknowledged that not all of us have the same feet, I think its best to accept that we are all different creatures instead of saying that some folks here are lying.
Agreed. And I would definitely stress that heels do damage the foot knees.
This is IMHO more about social norms. If the media advertised “sexy” women wearing flat shoes made of recycled tires (we called those Jesus sandals) every day for years, then we’d have women say they wore those to feel “sexy”.
I think maybe people are confusing two different things - there isn’t much doubt that excessive use of high-heeled shoes damages the wearer’s body. Not everything that damages your body is uncomfortable right away though - you can be damaging your body wearing heels frequently and not be terribly uncomfortable. Part of the damage is your body adapting to the unnatural shoes, with tendons shortening and thickening.
High heels are only bad for the body if she stands on them. When they’re pointed up in the air, there isn’t problem.
There ya go. The safe way to wear high heels. 
Umm… if they’re stilettos, don’t go feeling too safe. 
(ETA — Did you see Single White Female?)
No kidding. How about because we like them and couldn’t care less what sexist jerks who label us “whores” think?
Amen.
What? What? They are called pumps because that’s what that kind of shoe is called. The shoes are not named “pumps” so you imagine a man thrusting into my vagina. Are sneakers called that because you want people to think you’re deceptive or a thief?
That’s not the point being made; the point is that “pumps” is more evocative of sex than “heels”, regardless of what the shoes are actually called.
Actually, I always assumed that’s where the name came from; that at some point they were believed to be favored by sneaky people or for sneaking. Not that I put much thought into it admittedly.
I assumed it was because they were quiet, and the predominant shoe at that point was a hard soled wing tip type thing.
Dunno.
For the same reason a tranny wears them: because they want to.
Yeah, but heels are objectively uncomfortable, at least, at first. Heck, that’s why they tone those muscles. Muscles don’t tone without at least some discomfort.
And one merely needs to watch a kid in training heels to see that it’s not some really easy thing that would happen in absence of people telling them that heels are desirable for some purpose.
Oh, and I still don’t see the double standard everyone tries to make the “whore” thing into. It’s not like men who are just after sex are not also vilified. They are the creeps, the perverts, the potential rapists. Heck, guys that look at a woman the wrong way are horrible people.
Is that why “niggers” wear sneakers? Or “chinks” wear sandals? What kind of shoes do “kikes” wear–expensive ones, no doubt? And as you have seen here, “cunts” wear all *kinds *of shoes.
Oh, those poor men. Bless their hearts.
I trust that you can tell the difference between a man who is “just after sex,” and, say, a female lawyer wearing a nice pair of heels out to dinner with her husband. Can you see why I might get offended by the implication that she is a “whore”?
The difference here is that to be called a “creep” or a “pervert,” a guy has to actually engage in creepy behavior. But you are willing to call a woman a “whore” when she hasn’t actually done anything at even a little bit whore-ish. Wearing normal, fashionable, female clothing is not “being a whore.”
AHAHAHaHahahahahahAHAHahahaHAAH.
Yeah, you’re right. There’s totally no difference between calling a woman a whore, and also somewhere someone thinking bad things about a guy who are “just after sex”. Bless your naive little heart.
:rolleyes:
Wow..I didn’t know my husband was on here too!! Hi honey!
(he prefers barefeet to feels too)
Bolding mine.
Either your husband has a very strong foot fetish, or his priorities are all out of whack.
That word is a slur, and is a really mean thing to say.
There is a lot of name-calling and nastiness going on in this thread that needs to stop. Believe it or not, this issue can be discussed without throwing around disparaging terms. The OP did start it, I’ll grant you – but please, stop insulting comments now.