Japanese Minister for Labour says high heels are necessary for work

[StroppyWoman]

Rolled my eyes so much at this it's a wonder I'm not dizzy.
Apparently it is necessary and appropriate to force women to wear high heels to work.

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/high-heels-at-work-are-necessary-says-japan-labour-minister

When men are told to wear them, I’ll listen.

How high are his heels?

High heels for work
Ha ha ha ha
That's a no from me

Yeah right. In the olden days (1990s) I had friends who worked for Japanese banks in the UK.

Bastions of feminism... they were not... although one was surprisingly tolerant and supporting of a transsexual who was having a very traumatic sex change process. That was back in the day before every other person was a colour of the ‘bow.

I'm sure things have changed now but I worked for Japanese company in the 80s. I was posted to a department which didn't usually have women working in it and was told that I was very lucky and was considered "an honorary man"

There was no sense that there was anything wrong with that statement!!

Did you ever go to a Japanese restaurant and use chopsticks? Always caused a lot of ‘ohhhh - you can actually use chopsticks!’ And if you could actually speak Japanese! A Korean friend was fluent in Japanese and was treated quite badly.

How high are his heels?

Quite high, I'd imagine.

When he transitions.

1950s high.

Lord what does that statement have to do with wearing high heels to work??

It was following on from my comments on people working for Japanese banks (back in the day). Not exactly treating women respectfully.