Guy in heels in UK press

[at9]

Seen in Saturday's "Guardian": https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/sep/14/starting-a-business-has-made-me-a-lot-more-frugal

 

[jeremy1986]

Interesting.  No mention of the heels, which is also interesting... Because he obviously wanted them to be seen.  

[JeffB]

15 minutes ago, jeremy1986 said:

Interesting.  No mention of the heels, which is also interesting... Because he obviously wanted them to be seen.  

I noticed that too. Makes me wonder what his shoe closet must be like. Heh!

[Chorlini]

The guy is the poster boy of the lgbt community. His partner is a dude. Norhing wrong with the alphabet people but am I supposed to be happy that yet again men in heels = gay is cemented in people's minds? Its the opposite mental connection that I want to see happen.

[Shyheels]

Precisely. There seems to be an unrelenting association of gayness and heels and stories such as this just cement it more firmly in place.

[Cali]

So do something other than complain about it. Do a photo essay of straight men who wear hills. See if you can sell it to Vogue. I do my part by wearing mine in public, but so far no stories about me and my heels (or nails).

[Shyheels]

I doubt Vogue or anybody else for that matter would be interested. It wouldn’t fit the prevailing narrative. 

[Pierre1961]

I totally agree with you guys! 

It doesn’t serve the cause of straight men in heels. 

I also do my part of the job and wear heels publicly. 

And I wouldn’t be happy to see my face in a magazine.(No chance it happens) Except if our cause wouldn’t be an issue anymore. 

No chance it happens neither 

So,keep on wearing our heels,have fun ,don’t dream on the narrow minded people could disappear as the dinosaurs did many centuries ago. Maybe better like that. So few would be left! 

[HappyinHeels]

I admire Cali's spirit of asking someone to do, as one Milwaukee area radio personality puts it, "commit a flagrant act of journalism" but also realise what Shyheels states such an article about straight men in heels would probably not fit the current narrative. Journalism in its current form has devolved into so much group think heavily slanted toward left-wing liberal thinking and skewed against straight, white, conservative men in so many countries. Women, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and others are highlighted in their biased articles to the exclusion of some actually interesting stories. I wonder how many journalists would actually make it if they had to work in a truly independent world free of editorial staff wearing the same rose-colored glasses. As Chorlini puts it what we have here is the same tired journalism advancing lgbt issues or man in heels = gay. How nice and myopic. Years ago one could actually learn things by being exposed to different points of view but this is a rarity now in the age of group think and corporate journalism. It's more important than ever to seek out different outlets to get a more balanced view. Ultimately it is up to us to individually do our own thing and get out into the world in heels. Dare them to cover us. Life happily first and if they cover us it's fine. If not it's their loss. Quit watching and start living with active participation and that'll make a difference. HappyinHeels  

[at9]

" Journalism in its current form has devolved into so much group think heavily slanted toward left-wing liberal thinking and skewed against straight, white, conservative men in so many countries "

In the UK HiH seems not to have noticed the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Times and Sun, all of which have conservative policies. They account for the vast bulk of national daily circulation. Of the national printed daily papers in the UK only the Guardian and Mirror have a left of centre position. The other 2 significant dailies (Star and FT) are really soft porn and finance specialists respectively.

The "How I spend it" weekly feature in the Guardian has covered a wide range of people. Rich and poor. Gay and straight. Male and female. Young and old.

[Shyheels]

Yes, those particular London newspapers - Mail, Telegraph, Times etc - do have conservative editorial stances, but the fact remains that public debate and discussion these days is largely shaped by Twitter and other pernicious social media platforms.  Lazy journalists and editors, who either don't have the budgets or don't wish to spend money on serious journalism, rely on Twitter and the dramatised "outrage" of a handful of users as the bedrock for stories, most of which have heavily PC infused narratives. So yes, while the Telegraph et al might have a conservative leader writer, they are all of them chasing clicks, likes etc and jumping on trending stories.

The BBC is certainly left of centre, while The Guardian is well to the left. I don't read the How I Spend it feature in The Guardian, and so can't comment on that, but I do read their opinion pieces and they are right out there on the fringes.

[at9]

One person's centrist is another person's dangerous communist and yet another person's rabid right winger.

[Shyheels]

True, but I read a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and news websites - The New Yorker, Fox News, CNN, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC, New York Times, etc - and the opinion pieces in The Guardian are well to the left of everyone else.

As a side note, and unrelated to their political stance, The Guardian's columnists are incredibly indulged by their editors who allow them to get away with factual murder, writing pieces that are often riddled with demonstrable errors of fact. Not all of them, to be sure - a couple are excellent, and while I might disagree with their positions, I find their arguments well researched and put forth - but a great many of them just go on on riffs, propping up their airy claims on things that just aren't so. 

[HappyinHeels]

Whilst I was not aware of the political leanings of the Mail, Telegraph, and Times I nevertheless am aware of the focus of surveys of journalism students at such places as Columbia University in NYC. When asked as to their principal reason for pursuing journalism a plurality of respondents said it was to change the world. It would seem activism infused with emotion is more important than investigating and fact-checking and source vetting. This certainly is the case with that pernicious social media engine. It is undeniable the left-of-centre slant in corporate journalism these days. When I look at the fantastic spread of gay parades around the world I wonder how it happened until I realise the media got behind an international agenda to push. Equality is important but equality in journalistic expression is also important especially when one says they are doing a "public service". HinH