WHEN CHANGER IS SLOW AND MEN GAVE IT TO WOMEN

Much to the dismay of podiatrists, women have been ruining their feet because of men for years.  The wealthy Chinese made it a fetish to prove their wealth by making their wives into toys who could not walk and were helpless.  Women's feet were bound, deformed, but considered a sign of beauty.  Ballet dancers also have feet that are misshapen and deformed.  They do it for the sake of art and the beauty of the ballet.  Even though they break bones and live and dance in agony, it is endured as a privilege to have that talent for dance fostered.

Fashion also demanded that women are more desirable in stilettos, four inch heels   Apparently men gave up heels when the pain wasn't worth the gain.  They have forgotten the pain of walking in these shoes for hours on end.  Today's men no longer need high heels to stay on a horse.  They make the horse adjust to their need instead.  Today's women no longer cater to fashion to previous degree with rare exception of some special events and those women who live for admiration of themselves.    Entertainers, models, hookers, and any woman whose male is 'turned on' by the look, regardless of the discomfort it causes, will still wear what they feel enhances their seductiveness and beauty, regardless of discomfort

It makes me wonder what it means that our society will suffer for the fetish of others.  That is why an articles in BBC News caught my attention.  Women have taken much away from men, without a doubt.  However, I wonder there weren't men chuckling to themselves when they gave their high heels to women.  Like so many things, function was disregarded.  The new function was seduction/.

These are just a couple of comments from and article you may wish to read further.  "The high heel was worn for centuries throughout the near east as a form of riding footwear," says Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.

Good horsemanship was essential to the fighting styles of the Persia - the historical name for modern-day Iran."  Well, guys, we may keep the ballet toe shoes, some people need them as much as others want pets.  However, beautiful or not, it is nice to see women wearing walking shoes to work though they might put on heels in the office..   Bringing 'sensible' shoes to fashion has has always been a slow movement but eventually one can get acclimated to almost anything.