Posted on 08/11/2017 10:40:11 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Newsweek attacked President Donald Trump's female relatives for wearing high heels in public in a piece published Thursday, saying it showed they were subservient to men.
"Melania, Ivanka, and Ivana Trump Wear High Heels, a Symbol of Everything That Is Beautiful and Horrifying About Them," read the headline.
"The female consorts of the Leader of the Free World do not set foot in public without first molding their arches into the supranatural curve that Mattel toy designers once devised for Barbie's plastic feet," the author complained.
Newsweek argued that high heels are designed primarily to attract men, not for the comfort of the women wearing them.
"So to deconstruct why Trump women wear high heels: They are just buying into traditional binary views of male and female," British psychologist Paul Morris opined.
"High heels thrust out the buttocks and arch the back into a natural mammalian courting," an American anthropologist agreed. "Rats do it, sheep do it … lions do it, dogs do it. It is a naturally sexy posture that men immediately see as sexual readiness. [Heels] are a ‘come-hither' signal."
"When women wear high heels at work, they send sexual signals that should be avoided if they want to be taken seriously," she said.
Newsweek further noted that the first women to wear high heels were "Italian prostitutes in the 17th century" and that "the high heel was a staple of Victorian porn."
"Stiletto pumps are the ultimate test of a certain type of femininity. They signal the taut combination of power and weakness that conservative women must cultivate in order to survive among ideologues who are crafting our tax-free ‘Handmaid's Tale' future," Newsweek concluded.
IIRC, Michelle 0bama wore heels frequently, as well as Chelsea surely did at the DNC convention... I don’t remember the media saying anything about how wonderful they looked.
Real men like to look and be virile. Real women understand that their beauty is their greatest power and they naturally seek lovely, feminine and girly things. It is their arsenal and it works. Only the envious and jealous would criticize what is biological, natural, normal and healthy.
I think even Slick Willy has higher standards than that.
This is sooooooo stupid. Women can be taken seriously wearing heels or sneakers. It’s not what’s on their feet that matters, it’s what’s between their ears...
I've known many mentally retarded children, and none were as low or as evil as the a$$hats at Newsweek. Rather than comparing them to innocents, we should call them what they truly are - seditionists, liars and sociopaths.
Alex Griswold was the author and inventor of this article.
They’re just jealous because they can’t find heels that will fit their cankles.
***saying it showed they were subservient to men.***
I would post a painting of Louis 1V in his high heels but Photobucket has screwed up my account.
Finally a photo of Michelle looking classy! LOOK QUICK! Before she scowls and bears her fangs!
Maybe they didn't notice the shoes .... :)
Don’t you mean “large women with sensible shoes”?
Jackie Kennedy wore heels.
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