It’s sexist, the tribe will shout, and if someone wants to wear uncomfortable-to-the-point-of-hobbling shoes, that’s their right. Respected journalist, there was a message being signalled that work does notĬancel the need for women to be super-feminine. So, it seemed to this viewer that we were meant to see those spikey shoes.Įven though this was an interview conducted by a serious, hard-working, Set up for this discussion often showed the journalist’s feet, his didn’tįeature.
I don’t know what Mr Turnbull had on his feet –Ĭould have been high-heels or ugg boots for all I know. When his book came out, and, while the interview was competent, the The stilettoed journalist was interviewing Malcolm Turnbull Negative, critical, dark – such are the adjectives tossed at the heads of horrible people who wonder out loud about such things as silly shoes. And it took a 30-year-old American whose essays are elegant, sharp, persuasive and yet provocative, to convince me that it’s ok to say it.īefore I came across Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, I’d reached a kind of sad paralysis, convinced that things like silly shoes being worn in inappropriate situations was something few people noticed and even fewer cared about, and that those who do (such as I) must be horrible people anyway. Why would anyone – whatever gender – choose to wear unwalkable-stiletto-heeled shoes when at work, as a journalist, conducting an interview? As they say on Twitter – there, I said it.
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