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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Body Image, High Heels and All...
Message-ID: <374@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 16:03:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 16:03:11 1985
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Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <1764@decwrl.UUCP> mason@pneuma.DEC (ANDREA...DTN 223-4864) writes:
>              Heels certainly make women more vulnerable:  ever try to
>run in them?  Ever try to just *walk* in them?  I have been watching 
>women in my company lately as they teeter down the halls and through 
>the parking lots on their heels.  I just don't understand how/why they 
>do it.  What is at all attractive about wobbling around on "stilts"?

The vulnerability factor is the  key  here.  High  heels  are  designed  to
cripple  women  so they can't run away.  The same effect is achieved by the
Chinese custom of binding a woman's feet.  I've seen x-ray  photographs  of
the  bones  in  a  woman's  foot in a high heeled shoe and the bones in the
bound foot of a Chinese woman.  They're virtually identical.

(Yes, I'm aware of the legendary origins of foot-binding.  A thousand years
from  now  there's  probably  going  to be a legend about why women started
wearing high heels.)
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