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With Julia Roberts' barefoot stint that marked a protest against the traditional mandate of wearing high heels at the Cannes film festival, the high heel controversy has come to the fore. Last year at Cannes, over 50 women were refused entry to the grand festival as they had opted for flats over heels. While Julia took the barefoot way to rebel against the incident, Kristen Stewart and Emily Blunt also expressed their disappointment against the high heel obligation. While some voiced their feminist views and demanded equality in the footwear department as men weren’t restricted with the heels imperative, there were others who openly expressed their love for flats over heels.
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While we were still under the impression that only the female celebs borne the high heels turmoil, the common working class women are no way behind. Certain recent incidents have brought to light that even the common women go through the agony of wearing high heels daily because of the obligation at their workplace.
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It was Nicola Thorp, whose sending back home from her job due to her refusal to wear heels on the job of a receptionist of a firm, has broken the internet and made everyone think if there is any need to bear the pain of wearing those high heels in order to suffice the mere formal requirement?
Narrating about the incident, Nicola said, "When I arrived, the supervisor said, 'Well, you can't wear those.' I said, 'Why not? They're fine. They're smart. They're flat.' And she said, 'No. We have a policy that all female receptionists have to wear 2- to 4-inch heels. Go out and buy a pair, or else I'm sending you home.' And I refused, so I was sent home without pay."
While citing the whole heels episode on her first day at the job, she also mentioned, how her male colleague was comfortably working in his flats and was not sacked for wearing them as it would look weird on him. Dude now a gender disparity on footwear too? And we say that men and women must be treated equally. Just for the mere fantasy that a woman wearing high heels looks classy and a man doing the same looks weird; don’t you think we are forcing women to risk their health?
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It’s admirable of Nicola for standing up against such a ‘female grooming policy’ and with her petition against it; she has made the issue popular amidst the masses. With about 30,000 people having signed her online petition to make it illegal to force women to wear heels at work, she has actually initiated a new awakening. Bravo Lady!
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Well, Nicola was not the only person who went through the consequences of high heels mandate. A waitress at a local Canadian restaurant chain is still bearing the agony of wearing high heels at the job. Her friend and makeup artist Nicola Gavins have shared an image of her friend’s feet that essays the horrifying torture she bears while working with heels. The waitress didn’t want to be named as she still works at the restaurant and feared the loss of her job. I’m sure there are many like her, who at the cost of losing their means of earning are bearing the atrocities high heels impart on their tender feet.
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When Cinderella donned those high heels, it soothed our eyes and we felt like owning those high heels. Even I always craved a pair of stilettos until they got on my nerves and costed me a few visits to my physiotherapist for my tortured feet. Now, if I couldn’t bear walking on those high heels for more than half an hour, imagine those women who have to carry them every day for hours together? Can’t you hear those feet crumpling out of suffocation to the point of weeping? Even doctors claim that high heels are not a good option as it comes with a package of foot problems, backache and many such that will deteriorate one’s health.
Ok, we women have the habit of bringing that feminism in everything, but don’t you think this inequality in the choice of footwear is really a medical issue and not a core feminist one? And when doctors have been warning to keep your feet at bay from those high heels, then why are the companies mandating their female grooming policies on us women? Was that makeup not enough?
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