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December 15, 2006
When Did This Happen?
I notice over and over again at this company that women are wearing amazing stiletto-heeled dress and evening shoes.
To work. All day long.
Have I mentioned this before?
I guess I'm used to seeing women in more sensible walking shoes or flats. Or maybe I anticipated that fewer women were wearing heels after spending years living with a staunch feminist who argued that high-heeled shoes were The Man's way of keeping women off balance—unable to run or to pursue. That I couldn't be blamed for eroticizing them because of the dominant paradigm brain-washing me and my maleness.
And yet, Oprah herself, Western culture's real-life epitome of the empowered woman is not ashamed of admitting her love of the stiletto. And Sex in the City featured characters who were not ashamed of lavishing much income on shoes.
So I don't know if it's a phenomenon isolated to this company or not. I haven't been out much lately. I'm just returning to the corporate world after a three-year absence. But I'm thinking that for some women, these sexy stiletto shoes are the new power shoe.
I love it.
[+] Posted by Sinner, who was transgressing at the time (December 15, 2006 1:58 PM) by thinking evil. [+]
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In college we figured the feminists who felt that way about stilettos only really felt that way because of ...ugly legs.
It's a power shoe, no matter how you look at it. It makes a woman tall and imposing, sexy and slightly dangerous looking.
Unless you have to do a 100 meter dash, that is. Then they look like giraffes.
I feel your power. ;)