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Post by Cole Geass on Mar 24, 2017 22:57:49 GMT
This has probably already been talked about to death, but i'm pretty sure that high heels exist primarily to weed out mate selection for females. If a woman is average in height, she feels like she deserves an above average male in height. High heels can turn a 5'4'' women into a 5'9'' woman, meaning that 5'9'' male who is average in height is now no longer an option. Since women prefer to date men 4-6 inches taller than themselves, a 5'4'' woman in heels, now 5'9'' herself will be on the lookout for a 6+ ft tall man to mate with.
See, before high heeled shoes, a 5'9'' average male would have been appealing enough for an average 5'4'' woman. Heck, even a 5'5'' guy would still be taller than an average 5'4'' woman, and would still be seen as "the man" between the two of them. With high heeled shoes though? They're the perfect tool to more or less set a speed limit of the accepted height for men when dating. I know this isn't a new issue or whatever, but now that i work in the corporate world, and I'm surrounded by women made artificially taller than me by their high heeled shoes, even though i'd be taller if they weren't in them.
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Post by Cole Geass on Mar 24, 2017 23:00:35 GMT
Another reason I bring this up is because my roomate who is 5'5'' went on a date with a 5'1'' woman, who is 5'5'' herself in heels. Although without the heels, he is taller than her, she wanted a man who was at least 5'9'' because then he'd have the desired height difference when she was in heels. I know not all woman are like this, but a lot are. A 5'1'' female can't even be pleased unless a man is at lease 8 inches taller than her.
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Post by Heightism Report on Mar 25, 2017 3:42:42 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to say they exist primarily to weed-out men because women think heels make their ass and breasts stick out more, and they accentuate their legs, thus, heels are in with the other 950 artificial appearance enhancers that women use, but you are most certainly right that they are also used as a tool to reject short men.
Not only are they used as a tool to reject short men, but they often give women a sense of importance and power like tall men feel around short men. They think that we are intimidated by them when they wear heels.
Several months ago, two women walked in a bar I was at with friends. They had their heels on, and we're probably around 5'8 or so with their heels. They |ad plenty of room to walk past me, but they ran right smack dab into me, kept walking and were laughing the whole time. They completely did that shit on purpose. I called them a few choice words, and the tall guy who was with my group(I'll talk about him more in the future) was looking at me bewildered and I said
"did you see those bitches run into me?"
And he flat-out denied that it happened. I was ready to dump a beer on his head and force him to eat the bottle because it's always "in our head." He sat there and watched the entire thing and denied that it happened. Their fictions are always given more credibility than our realities though.
But yeah, heels are more than just footwear to women, they see them as symbols of power and excuses to exclude short men. It's mind-boggling that we live in a society that doesn't see a problem with rejecting men at least partially on the basis that they don't match a pair of shoes.
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Post by Heightism Report on Mar 25, 2017 6:24:13 GMT
I wouldn't go so far as to say they exist primarily to weed-out men because women think heels make their ass and breasts stick out more, and they accentuate their legs, thus, heels are in with the other 950 artificial appearance enhancers that women use, but you are most certainly right that they are also used as a tool to reject short men. Not only are they used as a tool to reject short men, but they often give women a sense of importance and power like tall men feel around short men. They think that we are intimidated by them when they wear heels. Several months ago, two women walked in a bar I was at with friends. They had their heels on, and we're probably around 5'8 or so with their heels. They |ad plenty of room to walk past me, but they ran right smack dab into me, kept walking and were laughing the whole time. They completely did that shit on purpose. I called them a few choice words, and the tall guy who was with my group(I'll talk about him more in the future) was looking at me bewildered and I said "did you see those bitches run into me?" And he flat-out denied that it happened. I was ready to dump a beer on his head and force him to eat the bottle because it's always "in our head." He sat there and watched the entire thing and denied that it happened. Their fictions are always given more credibility than our realities though. But yeah, heels are more than just footwear to women, they see them as symbols of power and excuses to exclude short men. It's mind-boggling that we live in a society that doesn't see a problem with rejecting men at least partially on the basis that they don't match a pair of shoes. When they're in their heels and "feeling their oats" so-to-speak, not like guys "feeling their oats" by the way, but feeling more powerful in their heels, they feel they (like tall or bigger men) can just run into some little squirt who just happens to be in their way. The amazing thing about this phenomenon is that they don't sit around a roundtable and conspire to do this. They just "do it". Their subconscious mind takes over and says something like, "Oh my God! This little shrimp isn't even worth moving for. We'll just crash into him. I have personal tactics for handling this type of situation on an individual level, however, the more important issue is the issue of heightism. A bar or a club is the absolute worst place for this sort of thing. You're in an adversarial environment if you happen to be a short guy. When your so-called "friend" denies the reality of your situation, it's just an affirmation - on his part - of his own superiority over you. He likes when things like this happen to you. It reaffirms his own sense of superiority, because obviously these things don't happen to him. And he revels in that fact. He's not about to admit that you might be some sort of "victim". If he did that, then he would have to admit that it was wrong for people to do things like this and possibly give up some of his Power and Privilege to short men. He's not about to do this. But his problems are FAR greater than ours you understand. His toes stick out over the bed you know, and Golly Gee, his head isn't directly under the shower head, and Oh Gosh people are always asking him if he plays Basketball, so we must give the proper respect to HIS difficulties, while ignoring our own "minor" issues. That's a great point. I'll bet my height comes-up with mutual acquaintances before(especially the female ones) so he knows damn well what sets him apart from guys like me. Most people I know are annoyed by him because he's jealous of literally everyone, he's a sad sack, and doesn't have much in the way of any talents, abilities, or life success, so he knows good and damn well that he needs to get as much mileage as he can from his God-given "superiority" stemming from his tallness. |
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