Heels

This picture here is exactly my view of high-heeled shoes.

I believe that they are meant to objectify and force submission upon those who wear them. I believe they're a great device for forcing submissives to be careful how they walk and where they step, especially in heels as severe as ballet boots. It's the same as forcing a submissive to wear spreader bars as they walk about, or keeping them otherwise bound.

I have no problem with high heels. I enjoy both objectification and the objectification of men in a typically female accessory. What I don't enjoy is the idea that heels and other typically female clothing make those who wear them more submissive. Gender, gender-identity and clothes do not a dominant or submissive make.

However, just to contradict myself, I've also never understood the ideal female dominant wearing high heels. Perhaps it's just to be taller.

I think I've internalized the male domination/female submission of the world and it frustrates me. I hate the idea that men feel they ought to crossdress so they can be humiliated as women, but I love the idea of women dressed as men in order to dominate.

Sigh.

Photo from The Perfect Wave.