Many guys have asked me- "Why can't I be accepted wearing heels? What is the problem?" Well I reckon the problem is society's desire to procreate and reproduce. You must realise I spout along a bit sometimes and these are just my personal philosophical views, but there you are - take it or leave it :-)
The same forces which act against lez and gay people act against TV's and guys who wear heels. Man has got to meet woman and they have got to have babies, and anything that threatens this can be seen as "evil", especially by people who have limited capacity for deeper thought, or those who have been indoctrinated quite heavily in this respect. Phoenix (Stories page) had it right when he said that people were often primed with these ideas when they were younger.
Certain items have been selected by society, almost worldwide, to allow women to be differentiated from men even when they might be quite physically similar otherwise. These include skirts/dresses, long hair, jewelry/makeup, and high heeled shoes. If you are a guy and you wear high heels, you are breaking one of the rules and you are "threatening" procreation. Thus you may attract some unwelcome attention from individuals who don't have the mental capacity to make this distinction without short circuiting a few of their smaller number of neurons.
However, I think guys can get away with wearing heels if this prejudice is broken down a bit and they are still obviously guys. In the same way as they can wear long hair and earings and still be respected as guys. Heels are just the next bastion to go. However, the key thing is that they still have to be obviously guys to be accepted generally. If gender is blurred too much, then some people are going to have problems with it. That may not be you or me, but "some" people is "enough" people to cause a bit of conflict.
I've said before I don't have anything against TV's. However, I don't think these people will ever be accepted by society in the same way that men wearing heels might. The reason is that some of these TV's are so good that they "threaten" people's perception of the ease of free procreation (wrong but true) while the other TV's are so bad that they look very silly.(Sorry to the "bad" TV's but its just my honest opinion - I don't mean to be harsh).
Now I thought at one time that men in heels did not look good, but having seen it in the flesh a bit and on the web, I'm afraid I have had to alter that opinion. I think men wearing heels can look good, but to gain general acceptance they still have to be men. When a woman wears trousers, she will often try to give out some feminine signals by wearing very high heels or letting her hair down etc. If men wear heels, maybe they must do the same in their own way.
Of course, this may all change as perceptions of fashion norms change, but for the moment it's your job to change them by opening people's eyes. Its not really my problem, but it's something I would like to see change, because heels can give great pleasure to women, and I'm sure they can do the same for many men as well in the right circumstances.
