Is this important journalism? No way. Is it funny as shit? I think so.

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Love the double standard

Women = heels Men = height boosters

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Its a shoe with heels higher than the toes, regardless of the purpose or visibility, hence the name high heels. “height booster” applies to both as well. The only difference here is the gender of the wearer; women wear platform heels and boots all the time, with the sole intention of boosting their height, that don’t call attention to their being high heels. Yet we still call them that.

I don’t see the point in delineating in this special case other than that to call them high heels might be even more emasculating (at least to a conservative base) than the writer probably intended. Just as we don’t generally use the term ‘men’s purse’, but ‘satchel’ or simply, ‘bag’.

It doesn’t have to be a “conspiracy” to be a double standard, and it clearly is one, so why are you so intent on denying it? I just want to know- nay, I am demanding to know!! Why isn’t Ronnie here leading the charge in normalizing high heels for strong, conservative men!?

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If a high heel is any shoe with a raised heel, would that make a low heel a shoe with the heel under the toes, and a mid heel a flat?

As I understand it, a heel is a shoe with an obviously raised heel, and high, mid and low are modifiers on the height of the heel - a 1" heel is a low heel, while a 5" heel is a high heel.

Shoes styled to look like a flat but with a hidden internal raised heel are called lifts.

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What’s hilarious is that heels started as a military thing- men who were cavalry would wear them so their feet wouldn’t slip through stirrups as easily.

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It would be one thing if it were just the heel

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Am I missing something? I don’t see the negative side of heels? They’re just called by different names.

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Did you read the article? He’s not just wearing heels.

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I first saw them called heels a while ago. However, it’s specifically because he’s insecure about his height, so they’re height boosters in particular. They aren’t for style like heels typically are.

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They’re gender-affirming appliances when they’re not for looks.

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I can’t believe people care about dumb shit like someone’s height in fields where it doesn’t actually matter. That 5’1" little brown woman in office with her finger on the big red button is always going to be much more of an actual objective threat than some 6’11" massive chungus of a dude with no real charisma to speak of and without any actual political power.

Hell, just give the little brown woman a gun and pit her against Big Chungus on the street and see who comes out on top.

People who analyze each other’s body condition and size and prioritize it in their judgement of everything other people do are such worthless fucking knuckledraggers.

I despise Ron DeSantis and even I can see this is an obviously petty cheap shot. Why not complain about him trying to drive Disney out of Florida? Or his fascist book censoring? Or his anti-trans garbage?

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Because even though it shouldn’t matter, it’s subliminally important to Americans that our leaders be tall.

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We care because he clearly cares so much.

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To add. We’ve already done all the complaining. The whole world knows he’s a piece of shit.

But he cares about being seen as tall and I want him to feel no joy in his life.

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Me, still looking for who TF cares

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DeSantis, clearly. Which is why it’s so funny

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I get why this is news, but who the fuck cares? I wanna stand over him and look down into his beady little eyes and call him, “Little Man.” But I’ll never get to so why do I see this on Lemmy? I’ll think about Ronnie when I’m taking a shit.

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If he wants to get taller he can just pop a Viagra.

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Are you implying his cock is so big it would prop him up or am I missing the joke?

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I’m saying he’s a dick.

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I wish I was a dick

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