the world has turned and left me here

In Japan, one cannot blink their eyes without each time seeing a new, pigeon-toed, pasty-skinned, high heel-wearing girl clickety-clacking down the street.

Everytime I find myself near an especially loud one, I pray that the forces of gravity and the girl's own ungainliness will fall out of sync and she will fall.

It hasn't happened yet, but I fear that when it does, I will be too close and suffer wounds from her art-nails as she suddenly grasps for support from whatever is close at hand.

Before you make any major decisions as to how you feel about high heels [because this really is an area in which one needs to know where--and in what--they stand], you should try living in an area saturated with high heels. . .or, you might try wearing them yourself.

On another note...

Not sure if anyone else does this, but when I'm strolling down the street, 9 times out of 10 I will trip, stumble, run into something, or at least scuff my shoes as soon as I realized that the oncoming male is rather attractive--no matter what kind of shoes I'm wearing. So maybe, Alan, it wasn't the shoes that were giving the girl fits. . .it was you. You should track her down and arrange to 'randomly' meet her one the street again, but when she's wearing tennies. If she trips, ask her out.

alan,
even i think it's cute when someone trips......it means they are human, male or female....therefore, the instant draw in a society of put-on-perfection....
i wouldn't worry about it, if she has the right to make a physical faux-pas, then surely you can make a social one, although, i wouldn't be offended if i were her. but then again......
that's all really,
rachel
(you know, ed's rachel)

Alan. Maybe the high-heels wearing girl is a Dominique of sorts...my view of most attractive women actually. They are strong and fierce, but secrectly just want to be raped by Howard Roark on their bedroom carpet. Love.

The shit I miss out on for having stopped at Atlas Shrugged...

As much as i understand your argument of being a monster and all that, I don't think you need to grow your canine teeth out just yet. I think that people in general are way more androgynous these days, and in looking for someone who is attractive to you, it's totally natural to go for people who proudly boast gender-stereotypical mannerisms. This is why a lot of girls go for really cocky guys, regardless of them being good for them. Now high heels, while not the most comfortable footwear on the market, are not really that bad. Now if you were getting off on female circumcision or feet binding or something, it may be a bit extreme. Really, though, wearing heels make girls feel cute, and to guys it makes them more feminine seeming. To me it's a girl's way of saying, I want you to think I am cute. And to some degree women want to be vulnerable and cared for as much as men want to be the caregiver. There you go...

Thanks for the posts. Either I'm not a monster, or I'm a monster with nice female friends. :)

My buddy had a good point on this one: males also conform to their gender role in order to attract the opposite sex. Often all that spitting and assorted chest-puffing belligerence amounts to the same sort of thing..."women, look how male I am..."

So while one could frame the high-heels thing as a case of one sex oppressing the other, it's really a societal pressure that people are caving to...and let's face it, it's just a pressure which you can choose to yield to, or not. Unlike some other places where failure to conform means getting buried from the neck down & having rocks thrown at your head until you die.

Related weird shit that's worth checking out: the theoretically perfect shape of breasts (a paraboloid of revolution) and buttocks (a cardiod, the inverse transform of a parabola). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_attraction

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