So is Donald Glover. Who can fucking GET IT.
I was in a Pride Parade this weekend. I got a sunburn, a giant ass staple in my foot and, due to my placement in the parade, was forced a good hour to watch a bunch of Bronies getting down in their Brony costumes.
Well I guess the producers of Magic Mike know their audience.
This is how long ago I was a stripper; “stripper shoes” weren’t a thing. If a girl had come in wearing shoes like those, she’d have gotten some side eye.
The one thing stripper shoes gets totally right is the elevated platform. The illusion of wearing crazy high heels but really only having a 1-2” heel/toe incline makes them surprisingly comfortable in comparison to standard heels.
I worked as an accessibility consultant - so I would tell people when they were building websites that they had to, you know, think about blind and deaf people as well.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Even when I was working as a stripper my boss didn’t require I wear high heels. I danced in ballet shoes when I felt like it, and even barefoot when I was working somewhere with a hardwood stage.
Just play basketball in pumps instead.
A restaurant where my mother’s side of the family grew up tried to institute this policy about twenty years back. Rumor has it, the whole staff, male and female, showed up in heels and refused to go home.
I refuse to step foot inside a Moxies exactly for this reason. Not only because they are parading their waitresses around like objects instead of human employees, but because it is a blatant health and safety violation. And every Moxies I’ve been in has STAIRCASES, without risers, that waitresses must climb in fucking…
Wearing heels affects your body in multiple ways. It can cause problems for the spine, feet, and legs. Requiring professional attire is one thing; requiring a specific kind of professional attire that causes longterm adverse effects and increases risk of accident is an entirely different thing.
I did HR before I went to nursing school because I hated HR so much. It was Ah-Maz-Ing some of the bullshit companies tried to pul.
Wearing professional footwear is fine but people should be able to wear professional, comfortable shoes that won’t hurt their feet. Especially if they have a job that involves walking, standing, and carrying heavy items. For a lot of women, heels hurt their feet after a while.
As a chick who’s gotten to that point in life where EITHER wearing heels or standing/running around for hours at a time sounds horrifying, the combination of the two is unimaginable. Ow.
I only support this policy if the women servers are also allowed to take off said heels to stab and/or gouge out the eyes of terrible customers.
Diplo, is that you again?