'Do you dare to wear flat shoes?'

[mippy]

Daily Mail, obv

I have man feet, so the Wail can feck off.

[maktaitai]

Honestly, the Mail makes me feel like the Incredible Hulk with my surging internal rage. My neck is bright green and twice its normal width right now.

I hate being a complete cliche Mail-hater but I sooooooo wish it would emigrate. I wish newspapers had to apply for visas and I wish I had the power to turn them down and send them to Antarctica to write about how hard it is to keep your femininity and your man when you're dressed in eight layers of Thinsulate.

[OkayGrrl]

I only wear flat shoes and boots, I walk like a constipated chicken in heels.

[GrimmaTheNome]

I dare. I'm 5'1" and sturdy legged but guess what.... I don't give a damn what some silly journalist might think.

[Ixia]

Snort, I'm 5'10" with size 9 feet and footballers legs. Yes, I wear flats, I can't walk in a ladylike fashion in heels - although it helps that I've never worn a skirt in 16yrs :)

[BleedyGonzalez]

Can you imagine getting through, what is it, three years of journalism school, walking out proudly clutching your degree certificate and then ending up writing shite like this for a living? How depressed the Mail writers must be. No longer they aim their harpoons at women - s'the old tactic of trying to make yourself feel better about yourself by degrading someone else.

[echt]

What I don't understand is the model they used at the end of to article had no ankles. And sausage-y legs.

[Dracschick]

I bet its written by a bloke who has a sausage legged wife at home.

[GoreRenewed]

Oh FFS!

Yes. I broke my foot and have severe tendonitis so wearing heels is more or less impossible.

Also I am very tall and ave 36" legs so don't need heels. Ner ner ner ner ner DM!

[CMOTdibbler]

Gahhhhhhhhh. I like a pair of heels as much as anyone, but in my real life of running after a 4 year old, walking lots, and traipsing round for work, flats are the place to be. And tbh, I don't care how flattering they are when my feet are happy

[GoreRenewed]

The article seems to imply that there the majority of women never leave the house without heels [confused}. All the ones i know do.

[ValiumSkeleton]

eh, yeah and I'm five foot one and a fag paper. But my every waking thought isn't how I look to men.

[purplepeony]

Thankd God i can do something right. For years I have hated my skinny ankles and skinnier feet- buying shoes is a nightmare. Now though I can walk along in my flats happy that the Mail approves.

[slug]

Gah!!! Heels are just a modern form of foot binding.

[spookerv1xen]

omg ffs how dare they tell us what we can and can't wear!

i am five 2 and very rarely wear heels, and i couldnt give a shit what they think!

[iwilldothis]

So I am "about as stylish as a fishwife" then.

[blackwell]

I rarely wear heels. I'm young, but can't be arsed with them and I don't care. If you're sexy in heels, you're sexy in flats as well. I have never met a man who cared (not that that should matter) and most prefer that I can keep up with them rather than tottering around looking ridiculous. I only really wear ballet flats and riding boots.

[maktaitai]

I have never seen a man moderate his walking pace to fit with a woman wearing heels. So you see all these dolled-up women skattering along trying to keep up in their foot-bindings.

Actually i would think that article was written by a woman. Sadly.

[BessieBoots]

I walk like a tranny in heels.

[Lancelottie]

I'm trying to think when I last saw anyone I know wearing heels.

Probably my 6-yr-old daughter having a dress-up fit. Everyone else stomps cheerily through the semi-rural wilderness and footie fields in cowpat-shaped shoes and wellies.

[ScaryMoaningArrrggghhhs]

I have no issues with how my ankles look in flats as I have no ankles; I didn;t have them when I was size 18 or 8 and I don;t have them now I am slipping back down the scales again. C'est la vie.

I can't walk in heels; I do it once a year or so for a very glam night but that's it and I always regret it. I have recurring plantar fasciitis and no way would I deliberately set that pain off agin.

[polyhymnia]

Bet it was written by a woman.

One of the many ghastly/ ironic aspects of the Mail is that it seems to be aimed at women, much is written by women, yet so much of the content is informed by an apparent contempt for women and desire to make them feel bad about themselves. Not this one though - in fact, if I'm doing something the DM disapproves, eg wearing flat shoes,I'm almost certainly on the right track.

Wonder how they would characterise this thread - I'm sure they have a ready-made set of cliches for writing about MN, as about everything else.