Footwear Expatiation
Thinking About Meg Ryan
And human feet
(Inspired by Ann Litts)
Old-time Chinese men preferred women whose feet were bound since childhood and ended up with deformed small feet that made them walk in an exaggerated unnatural fashion. Are high heels the modern day version of that? They make women walk in profoundly unnatural ways that men mysteriously find sexy. Why do women put up with that?
Personally, I have always found women walking in high heels to be somewhat off-putting. It’s just so darn unnatural. Maybe that’s why Meg Ryan always turned me on so much.
Meg Ryan has been vocal about her disdain of high heels. In so many of her movies she is wearing flats — so she is walking in the natural way a human body is designed to walk.
There is a scene in the movie, You’ve Got Mail, where she leaves her Manhattan apartment in a very happy mood. She is walking down the block in sneakers. Suddenly, out of the blue, she starts skipping but then she quickly reverts back to just walking.
Skipping is a natural expression of joy.
If natural skipping is a natural expression of joy is the intense societal pressure for women to wear high heels a way of suppressing that natural expression of joy? After all, skipping is…
