The Other Gender

[FlakeNoir]

Women's shoes are a cruel, cruel invention.

I might be wrong, because I have big wide feet. So maybe if I had dainty, ladylike feet I would find heels that don't maim and constrict with every step.

As it is, I wear Birkenstocks pretty much everywhere. I keep hoping that someone at church will say that my shoes aren't dressy, or aren't appropriate, because I've been waiting to say, "Hey man, they were good enough for Jesus!" >ba dum bum tsshhh!<

It seems like the male equivalent is neckties. Any outfit that requires a necktie is already kind of stiff and restricting, and then for the finishing touch you add an actual noose? That can't be a good idea!

I do have teeny little dainty lady-like feet... and I still hate heels.
I wear hiking boots and runners mostly.
Yar, the girlie feet are probably wasted on me.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

I can't imagine what life would have been like...or I can...and I can only see one result. I've said that my wife and I have tried to have children...and we have not been blessed with children. In another sense, that is a blessing, too, as I have imagined a daughter of mine trying to go through life as I went through life and I am glad that that will not be. Some things are easier for a male and though life was anything but easy I did make it this far. It all comes out in the wash.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Spoiler

I'm wondering if I would have been safer had I been male?

 

[not_nadine]

splain?

 

[Todash]

If I'd been born a male, a real (inside and out) one, I think I might have been more physically brave because of hormones and social expectations. I *hope* that unlike my four brothers, who seem to have zero inkling of their straight white male privilege, that I would be aware and socially conscious, but I don't know. All I can say is that I hope. I hope that I would have still been kind, strong, creative, with a worldview similar to that which I have now, and ideally about eight inches taller, but ... I don't know.

 

[ghost19]

I do have teeny little dainty lady-like feet... and I still hate heels.
I wear hiking boots and runners mostly.
Yar, the girlie feet are probably wasted on me.

A long time ago a friend of mine, while relating a story to me, coined a term I'd never heard of for Birkenstock sandals. He called them "Jerusalem Cruisers". It struck my funny bone at the time, still does anytime I see someone wearing Birkenstocks.

 

[blunthead]

I do have teeny little dainty lady-like feet... and I still hate heels.
I wear hiking boots and runners mostly.
Yar, the girlie feet are probably wasted on me.

Girlie things are never wasted on females.

 

[blunthead]

Spoiler

I'm wondering if I would have been safer had I been male?

I general, I think so.

 

[Lepplady]

I do have teeny little dainty lady-like feet... and I still hate heels.
I wear hiking boots and runners mostly.
Yar, the girlie feet are probably wasted on me.

I have teeny tiny feet and I think that makes heels even more unbearable. Where a lady with a larger foot is on an incline with the ball of her foot on the ground in a 3" heel, I'm standing on tip toes. Just give me flip flops, thanks.