Standing pigeon-toed, looking at the ground while lightly touching your hair...

[TheLeadbetterLife]

...is the new laughing at salad.

Why do all fashion bloggers insist on postures that express, "sorry for existiiiiing! Aren't I the cutest doormat you've ever seen?"

My Pinterest feed is full of these women.

These are the type I have an irrational hatred for. Hands posed so delicately and pointlessly.

They look as though they've had too liquid a lunch to me.

I walked like that for most of my life. I had to look down because I was forever tripping over my own feet.

A double hip replacement sorted it.

But of course, how else would you know it's Amazon

OP you are absolutely right and it does indeed say a lot about women's position in society, including the fact as you say that many women infantilise themselves with all kinds of nonsense that you never see men do. The fact that we hardly notice it speaks volumes too.

I’m not sure what Lookbook (I was obsessed with this site) pictures from the late 00s/early 10s says about women or society in 2023.

They pose a lot of female models to look like victims as well. It's depressing. Goldie Hawn, renowned for being zany and kooky, held on to that kookiness far into old age. Only recently does she seemed to have stopped. She's not kooky, she's a sharp cookie and it is sad she clung onto that cutesy little girl schtick.

What are their feet doing???

Some of them look like they just stepped in doggy doo doo

This one looks like the moment just before her ankle bones were snapped against the kerb 🤮

Made me laugh! Thank you as feeling rather mizog generally

😂i do agree OP, but what pose would you have them do?

Oh that's so awful.

This thread is hilarious. I love the laughing at salad pictures. Now, whenever I eat a salad, I'm gonna take a selfie like that.

At least they have their mouths closed. We've had YEARS of slightly open mouths (women only, not men ofc 🙄)

That is irritating 😂

I follow a fashion insta with a middle aged woman, but she often has an exaggerated one foot forward pose. It drives me mad, but I would never say a negative comment on a post.

Uugh the in turned toes. Awful.

I couldn’t believe the ridiculous inane backward C shaped poses in the Me+Em catalogue. Came across a perfect example of OP’s description tho.
( bought a friend a scarf or socks or something as a present last year and now get the catalogue). The prices!! 😮

Victoria Beckham's pose always gets to me. I don't have to attach a picture or describe it, because it's always the same. (The pose AND the utterly enormous sunglasses.) Why, Victoria?? Does your hip hurt?? Is one leg really 12" longer than the other?

This is a great thread. Thank you, especially for the "vulnerable sleeves"

So many weird legs!

For balance, here are some of my favourite Pinterest women.

Awkward poses have been around for decades. It’s like no one know one knows what to do with feet and hands.

‘Yurrghhh what’s that on my coat?’