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.
Well, that’s the point. Lady-like and becoming are code words for come-hither and are a product of patriarchal oppression/sexual objectification.
LOL. That’s perfect.
niiiice.
Wearing high heels in public!!!
How gauche!!
Every decent progressive knows high heels should only be worn in the privacy of your own bed.
Two scoops of ice cream on dessert!!
and why is he wearing a blackberry neklace?
GUILTY
In the FIRST DEGREE
They wear them because they can
Dude looks like a la . . . Dude!!
These people must have eaten their own brain for dinner. That is how stupid they sound right now.
Because all the lib women have cankles?
Carla Bruni and Queen Rania of Spain? Love the picture as I get a good laugh every time I see it.
well FM is prettier but it’s close.
Newsweak relearns the art of futility: squaring the circle, herding cats, telling free women what to wear. Best of luck with that one.
If you really want to send them around the bend, I think forks were invented by the same people who invented high heels.
The author of the Newsweek article is none other than NINA BURLEIGH . . . who back in the 90s wrote that she would gladly give Bill Clinton oral sex in gratitude for keeping abortion legal.
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