Fetiche

Obviously I don't have a problem with heels. I also don't have a problem with heels on men or boys. But I'd like to talk a bit about "normality," and some considerations that apply to schools and similar public institutions.

Just so you all know, I'm a devout Catholic and a political conservative. If that causes you to decide what I'm going to say MUST be wrong, so be it.

Like it or not, "normal" means "usual" or "commonplace." What the great majority of people do in a setting is what defines "normality" in that setting. A tiny percentage of the male gender is willing to be seen in high heels, in any setting. Therefore, it's the opposite of normal.

We tend not to think about how closely "normality" is tied to public peace. The streets are orderly mostly because when we leave our homes to go to work, the grocery, or the salon, we don't see a lot of "abnormal," disturbing, disgusting, or threatening things. Granted that there's a range of not-quite-normal public behavior that we can tolerate without sparking off a riot, but that doesn't mean that anything goes -- that any sort of conduct whatsoever must be treated as acceptable in public.

A school is a place where special conditions apply. For one thing, it's filled with kids -- creatures barely in control of themselves, if they're in control of themselves at all. The adults responsible for the school are legally responsible for everything that happens within it. They must decide what sort of departures from normality the school can tolerate -- NOT on the grounds that they're "immoral," but out of concern that some departures would provoke incidents that everyone would regret later!

Imagine if that boy with the heels had attracted the attention of a pack of homophobic bullies. Imagine if they'd dragged him out behind the building and beaten the living daylights out of him. Or worse, imagine if they'd gang-raped him! Leave aside the suffering of the victim, which is surely bad enough. Who do you think would be held responsible? Whose abuse of discretion would be blamed for "allowing" such a thing? What sort of hell would be visited on those persons?

We ADULTS don't do terribly well in dealing with dramatic departures from normality. Look at the difficulty we've had over homosexuality. Look at the difficulty we've had over transgenderism. Humans are just barely mature enough to have learned that these things are tolerable among mature, informed, consenting adults -- and it took us thousands of years and a lot of pain to learn it! Kids are not ready for that sort of latitude, at least not in a public place where their hijinks can easily give rise to chaos, violence, bloodshed, lawsuits, and candlelight vigils.

Be sensible.

My beloved wears five inch heels to work, every day. They're Gothic platform ankle boots -- Demonia Slush-62 models, and occasionally Ellie 557-Dolly models -- and he used to get a lot of comments about them. The comments stopped abruptly when he demonstrated that he could kick a 35-yard field goal in those boots.

He started wearing them because they correct a flaw in his walk that was causing him severe pain in his lower body, but he admits that he gets a kick out of the double-takes people do, and try to conceal, when they see his footwear.

With love,

Fetiche

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