Posted on 09/18/2009 8:21:15 AM PDT by pissant
A call by the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists asking employers to work with unions to conduct risk assessments and if necessary allow workers to replace high heels with comfortable shoes in the workplace created a controversy this week.
Unions passed a motion at the Trades Union Congress conference demanding that women have the right to comfortable footwear in the workplace.
Defenders of the stiletto claimed that unions were attempting to ban the shoes in the workplace, but the podiatrists defended their position, stating that high heels can cause such foot problems as blisters, corns, calluses, damaged joints, knee and back pain.
Some women argue that stiletto heels give them a power advantage in male-dominated workplaces because the shoes make them appear taller and enhance their sex appeal.
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Looks like he took a stilleto heel up each nostril.
The day they ban stilettos is the day I put up the Helmut Newton photos in my office!
on aircraft, absolutely (a relative of mine once watched a 300+ lb. woman wearing stiletto heels try to board an airliner and punch a series of holes right through the deck floor)
What were they made of?....steel?
Did the Labour Party in England successfully decriminalize home burglaries? It was proposed a while back.
I watch these old movies taking place in England like “The 39 Steps” and “So Well Remembered” and the people of England really aren’t freedom minded people are they? They are used to living in rented flats and taking orders and walking wherever they wish to go.
And now, on top of all that, the government of England decided to replace them with Muslims from Morocco and other third worlders.
Will the Muslims be as docile in the future? I hear “Londonistan”.
This is more bull from the UK, if they can figure out a way to interfere more in people’s personal lives they will.
Easy there, MamaTexan! LOL! LOL!
I think attractive women should feel perfectly at home in a nice pair of heels. But the unattrative ladies are just going to give themselves a bad case of bunyons! LOL!
Do you wear heels?
In case you were wondering, I don’t.
The brave British citizens who fought the Nazis would not have tolerated such rubbish, but three generations of socialism and voluntary depopulation have done their work.
Hehe, they’ll take my stilettos when they peel them from my cold dead hand!
” three generations of socialism and voluntary depopulation have done their work.”
Three generations of spoiled idiots who I daresay never had to fight in a REAL war since WWII.
As for the stillettos, let women wear them but realize the messages they are sending doesn’t include “love me for my mind.”
Man, that is just so wrong on so many levels.
Hell no!
That's not wishy washy, just common sensical.
I don't think they should be banned either. It should be left up to the individual.
I just wish the office type women who wear heels [stilettos and dress shoes] would realize what they do to themselves. The podiatrists are correct in saying certain types of shoes are not good for the wearer's feet, legs and back.
Well, I wasn't wondering, but thanks for sharing. LOL!
No, I'll wear a low heel when I force myself to wear them at all. There is nothing about shifting my center of gravity to an unnatural point or squeezing my duck feet into a pair of shiny leather torture devices that appeals to me.
I'm really a barefoot girl myself.
[grin]
But I know the guys like them because the gams get longer and the backsides giggle, so I'll leave you to your fun.
;-)
So we’re in violent agreement then? ;-P
Only on men.
You've got a giggling backside?
[smile]
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