Canadian MP's prance around in red high heels to oppose violence against women.

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This is so absurd what on earth do they think they are doing?...is this how they see women?

Omar Alaghabra Transport minister: Hope in Heels is an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution. We wore their signature pink heels in support to this important cause.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1649112084330807298

My OH said to me tonight 'have you seen this, what the fuck do they think they are doing?'.

I know mate, welcome to our world.

Is this the same Canada whose Inspector of Prisons admitted that over 60 % of all male prisoners wanting to transfer to female prisons were convicted of violent and or sexual crimes against womenand
children.

OMFG.
And what was that swaying of hips about?

What’s their next governing move, setting up a thoughts & prayers session?

Well, Canada's misogyny is certainly showing.

I'm a woman and I've never worn a pair of pink heels in my life. Doesn't mean I'm somehow protected from violence against women though.

Way to trivialise a serious issue and be misogynistic at the same time.

Back when it first started, long before any new-fangled ideology, it was seen as a way of showing solidarity with women. And the images were powerful. Safly, that bird has long since flown. At the same time, early 2000s, I think, there were other powerful demonstrations such as topless protests against misogyny in aAnd male violence in Ukraine. But just goes to show the mess we are in now.

to add to lanadelgrey's post
its from this
https://www.walkamileinhershoes.org/

Woman is a costume. fuckers

Those MPs being clapped for grinning and mincing about like they think women do in heels is mortifying- what absolutely great non-sexist guys they must be

‘Hope in Heels’ though, as the dreadful name of an anti-VAWG campaign… someone is surely taking the absolute piss out of W and G with that. WTF?

Optics are awful. Supporting women by taking the piss. No thanks. Would they black up to support BLM?

Bloody hope not BTW, but nothing would suprise me with these absolute fucking tools.

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This will do nothing. It’s an insult. Dina McMillan posted this link about unmasking the abuser on the thread. I thought it was really interesting.

What the Actual Fuck?

Is this what they mean by fuck me heels? When you watch a shambolic display of bullshit like that and say 'Fuck me!'

What was the fucking clapping???

I do peptalk myself into witnessing nonsense like that instead of just hearing about it secondhand but even that admittedly lightweight level of misogyny makes me so so cross. I guess because it's a serious subject and they're meant to be serious people?

Nobody could walk a mile in those shoes.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has been in the news for a few counts of blackface. He still gets re-elected, although by a smaller margin than back when he was just the blank slate that people projected their aspirations onto, the child of Canadian icon Pierre Trudeau. Keep in mind that from a UK perspective, Justin Trudeau's party is the Lib Dems, or maybe the SNP defanged of its reasonable desire to represent Scotland. The Canadian equivalent of the Labour Party still lies in waiting.

I think from a UK persoective, it may be helpful to think of the Canadian system as you would the Scottish system: The five major federal parties are the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party (NDP), the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada. Any fucking thing can happen.

What the heck was that?!? It’s embarrassing, insulting and just weird.

In drag. Or possibly naked.

The thrill and excitement of playing Have a Wank In A Nice Warm (jolly fun) Bath of Someone Else's Oppression is a bit too front and centre to be quite hidden behind a lot of righteous sounding burble.

I have to say I feel so much safer, respected and more empowered now that I know male Canadian politicians are wearing heels to highlight my discrimination.

@7Worfs
"What’s their next governing move, setting up a thoughts & prayers session?"

That would be respectful - people silently praying, voluntary attendance. Not this performative and gleeful mincing.

@Basildeleaf
"Optics are awful. Supporting women by taking the piss. No thanks. Would they black up to support BLM?"

Absolutely, if they could get away with it. I mean Trudeau loved doing so.

Maybe they could actually recognise that they are the fucking government and it is their responsibility to govern to improve the lives of women and girls.

Stupid gestures like this are not just insulting, they are just distractions from the fact that these people are in power and responsible for government policy, law and funding allocations. Prancing about in heels in far easier than doing things - but these are the people who actually can do
something.

Infuriating in so many different ways.

So the premise is that men wearing heels are willingly abasing themselves out of sympathy for women, and they abase themselves by acring in a caricature of women, because what could be more disempowering and abasing than being a woman, right?

Offensive on so many levels.

That goes some way to explaining what they are doing. Doesn't make it any less an insult.

Stupid gestures like this are not just insulting, they are just distractions from the fact that these people are in power and responsible for government policy, law and funding allocations. Prancing about in heels in far easier than doing things - but these are the people who actually can do something.

Such as, say, letting women have female-only sports, and taking male prisoners out of female prisons.

Two things they have the direct power to do that would directly lessen violence against women.

(Only just realised we seem talking about actual national MPs here - I assumed when I first saw this was just some local politics thing).

Gesture politics. Where it's all about image, making noises, being seen to do exciting popularity raising/visibility raising things, and corporate marketing of yourself. Not about actually having real beliefs, values, care or interest in representing the needs of real people.

Hence the grabbing on to anything that does a nice bit of signalling/nice instagrammable photo ops, and a bit of entertainment and fun. While being utterly fucking oblivious.

We seem to be living in a world where MPs are starting to confuse themselves with Z list celebs and influencers.

Well. In fairness, some MPs. Mine does actually do stuff. In a way reflective of actual core beliefs. Sadly for that reason it's unlikely he's going to go very far.