Comments on: Shoe Haters

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:00:06 +0000

Btw, thong shoes cause the larger two toes to squish together to hold onto the shoe. Even my slippers cause my larger toes to hurt sometimes from holding them to my feet. Yay for the shoes.

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:58:26 +0000

Oh, my! That picture of the high heel effects. I checked and it does not do that to my stomach! The butt looks very nice, though. The drawing didn’t show the effect of the uplifted chest, either. Heels are indeed super sexy!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:17:52 +0000

Perhaps the Manolo and the anti-shoe blogger may compromise by creating a line of superfantastic thonged sandals for the warmer months. They will protect the feet from the pavements, yet let the toes splay out.

By: Rana

Rana — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:27:27 +0000

Re: that site — “feetback”?

The joke it is sad! The wit of the Manolo is much the superior.

By: willow

willow — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:56:01 +0000

While I’ll not deny the sublime pleasure of bare toes in warm sand or nestled in dewy cool, soft May grass, the idea that shoes are in any way connected to West Nile Virus or pretty much anything else on this dingaling’s site is…well. Everyone’s gotta have a hobby, I guess.

And I’ll give the guy points for tenacity, if not for intelligence.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:01:42 +0000

One word for those who hate shoes: Tetanus.

The choice is simple…

protected beautiful feet or lockjaw.

nuff said.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:19:54 +0000

Anyone who has trod the streets of New York on a sizzling hot day after a queue of dogwalkers will appreciate the wisdom of wearing shoes.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:53:33 +0000

Perhaps if we throw away children’s shoes, we can throw away the Ritalin, too? And goodbye to the Children’s wing at Memorial Sloane-Kettering as well. I am all for balance, in shoes, in reporting, and in living in our society in a comfortable way.

By: Tania

Tania — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:26:18 +0000

This reader has to laugh, both at the content of the Shoebuster’s site, and at the Manolo, who tells us to ignore a thing while he publicizes it. There is a photograph on the Shoebusters site of the natural, unshod-for-a-lifetime Filipino feet, which are quite like the feet of this reader’s Filipino father, who has said many times that he did not wear shoes (being the Filipino farm boy) until he was 12 years old. And now I am forced to consider the wisdom of that, because the feet of his people are there presented as an example of pedal health, and my whole life I have only laughed at my father’s funny looking feet. Of course, the best part of the article on the site is when every ailment that has ever plagued industrialized nations is blamed on footwear. It does seem a bit extreme to blame sudden infant death syndrome on the use of socks. But it does also seem strange that we women wear such narrow, pointed shoes, causing our little toes to curl under just so. I have recently seen some photographs of footbinding, as it was done in China, and the horror of it has led me to throw out my mutilating shoes. In fact, I am becoming so picky about shoe comfort that I have decided never again to wear a heel over 2 inches high again. My mother, who has had several bunion surgeries now, has long warned me against deforming footwear. And so the Manolo may tell us to ignore these things, but it is no secret that we women must frequently weigh the glory of the beautiful shoe against the pain of it, no matter how well crafted. And so it is only right that in Internet-land we have both the Manolo and the Shoebusters to articulate both sides of the essential conflict just so.

By: enygma

enygma — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:47:49 +0000

That’s funny, I heard the same statistic Mimi mentions but with ice cream rather than Coca Cola. Ha! It is much too cold here to walk around in bare feet in winter. I prefer my feet well shod, thank you.