Japan - High Heels - Work

[David48atTD]

Japanese woman urges ban on workplace high heel requirement with #KuToo petition

A Japanese woman has launched a campaign urging the government to prevent companies from forcing women to wear high heels to work.

Key points:

• #KuToo is an amalgam of the Japanese words for shoes, kutsu, and pain, kutsuu
• Ms Ishikawa said men and women should have the right to wear heels but should not be forced
• Last year actress Kristen Stewart removed her shoes on the red carpet in protest

Yumi Ishikawa, an actor and writer who works part-time at a funeral home, handed a petition signed by nearly 20,000 people to Japan's Labour Minister on Monday (local time).

The campaign to fight gender-based dress codes has been called #KuToo, mimicking the #MeToo movement. It is also an amalgam of the Japanese words for shoes, kutsu, and pain, kutsuu.

Ms Ishikawa said wearing heels was a condition of her employment and had become a "burden" as she had to stand and move around all day.

In the online petition, Ms Ishikawa writes that heels causes a variety of health-related issues and could change the shape of a woman's feet.

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Where's our Dickie when you need him?

[David48atTD]

High heels are "necessary and appropriate" in the workplace, Japan's Health Minister says, amid growing support for a campaign to fight gender-based dress codes.

While many Japanese companies may not explicitly require female employees to wear high heels, many women do so because of tradition and societal expectations.

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[Norton]

Suppose things could be worse.

[nidhogg]

Where's our Dickie when you need him?

Sorry David, but for psycho women, Dickie is your man. Womans shoes are more Loopers thing......

[beerlaodrinker]

Exactly. I will reserve judgement until i hear loopys take on this

[Hugh Cow]

^^
Really? I'm sure the reason will be something to do with free market capitalism.

[nidhogg]

^^
Really? I'm sure the reason will be something to do with free market capitalism.

Close, although the actual reason is he has a habit of wearing women's shoes and posting the photos online here.

[Looper]

KLF said she her grandmother had her feet bound as a baby.

I am glad KLF did not have it done herself.

It was only thanks to her size 8s that I acquired my first pair of sparkling gold stilettos in 2013.

I don't now about Japanese culture and high heels but gender dress codes are sometimes there for a reason. There was a recent case of an RSL caving in to change their dress code which distinguished between males and female.

Males were not allowed to have bare shoulders but females were. When this was called out as 'sexism' the RSL caved and changed their dress code.

Totally absurd nonsense. Dress code rules distinguish between males and females because the calculus of sexual behaviour in humans (and other mammals) is asymmetric. Bare shoulders on a male (a sexual predator) is an entirely different signal to bare shoulders on a female (as sexual opportunity).

Society should not have to abandon cultural norms which are derived from biological reality in order to accommodate a microscopic percentage of individuals who are trans-gender or intersex.

[Norton]

biological reality

[docmartin]

The high heels thing is idiotic imho.
It is uncomfortable for women and damages their feet and is entirely impractical.

The origin is in pseudo-paedophilia. Adolescent girls often have legs that are disproportionally long as compared to the torso so high heels mimic that.
Likewise the images on dress pattern sleeves show exaggerated leg length so the old boilers choosing them will subconsciously think that they'll be hot chicky-babe nymphets again if they choose that pattern - by appealing to the primitive reptile sector of the male brain - 'leg long, female fertile, must impregnate' (make monkey grunts as appropriate).

[katie23]

^I agree with docmartin. High heels shouldn't be forced on a woman as part of her dress code at work. It's hellishly uncomfortable and can cause feet, back and posture problems - treatments for which most companies won't pay for.

In PI, it's been banned to force ladies to wear high heels. The law was passed 1 or 2 years ago. Sales ladies in dept stores can now wear flat shoes or sandals. Formerly, they had to wear 2 or 3 inch stilleto heels - which are hell after a few minutes.

If a woman wants to wear stilleto heels for a party or night out, then it's her choice. But to require her to wear them for work everyday, that's cruel.

For the record, I usually wear 1-inch wedge heeled shoes at the workplace and flats when going around town. I have high heels but only use them for parties and such.

[Switch]

Bedroom to boardroom. Freedom to choose. Business women have been power dressing for decades.
why give your opponent the subliminal advantage of 4” in height, when you don’t have too?

[docmartin]

Logically then a set of mini stilts about two feet high would be recommended.
Now wait a minute - the self-obsession of bimbos has no end so there's a billion dollar idea....