LaMa
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 05:52 AM
It is my opinion that all women are born crazy and schizophrenic by default... 😝
On a more serious note: schizophrenia occurs among both males and females. That alone already contradicts his claims (made further on in the newspaper article). Moreover, it certainly occurs in non-western societies with no high heels too.
So I think this is humbug. |
Nettie
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 07:51 AM
I think women who wear heels are crazy anyway so it really wouldn't surprise me! |
Maegan
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 07:58 AM
That's what I was thinking. After all, I'm a little nuttier than is normal (according to my husband), and I have worn heels just a few times in my life. And even still, I have worn probably not more than 2 inches.
I did read a story about a woman who wore stilletto (sp?) heels every day since she was a teen (in the 40s), now she can't wear normal shoes at all. Her calf muscles sort of permanently put her foot into that tip-toe shape.
She seemed to have all her functions - she was in a nursing home, but only b/c her family wouldn't take care of her , not b/c she was a nut. |
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 | 08:55 AM
A family friend of ours has been wearing high heels for most of her life, and I can attest to Maegan's story: the lady I'm talking about has to buy high-heeled slippers too, exactly for the same reason.
But that's all there is to it, the rest is obviously BS in my opinion. |
Accipiter
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 08:39 AM
Hmm, I'd always thought it was the designers of those shoes who were insane. . .
And Maegan, I read an article about shoe styles a long time ago. From what I remember, high heels became popular in the 1300's. Or it may have been the 13th Century. They fell out of favour in the 1500's, then came back with such a vengeance in the 1600's that eventually one of the French kings had to set a limit on the height (apparently the fashionable women kept toppling over and being a hazard). |
Tru
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 11:51 AM
That would mean that professional dancers who spend most of their days on their toes would be a bit crazy too. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 12:26 PM
How about "Your Honor, I know, I killed my husband -- but it was temporary insanity, I was wearing high heels!" -- "Oh, then it's ok, you may go, miss -- but you be careful with those shoes next time, you hear? On your way now, on your way!" |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 12:41 PM
That would mean that professional dancers who spend most of their days on their toes would be a bit crazy too. - Tru
That pretty much sums up my experience. Yup.
:lol: |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 06:17 PM
Okay, would anyone class me as crazy?????? |
Accipiter
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 06:51 PM
Smerk, I'd answer that question, but then you'd probably delete my answer. . . |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 | 07:27 PM
Aww...go on! I promise I wouldn't!
*crosses fingers behind back* |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 01:11 AM
You are a "shiela" are you not???
😕 |
Smerk
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 01:19 AM
And your point is? 😕 |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 01:24 AM
Not sure whether I should answer that or not!
:gulp: |
Smerk
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 01:47 AM
Damn...I'm never gonna get an answer! :lol: |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 01:54 AM
I answered ya... sort of! I'm just not brave enough to come right out and say it point blank.
😏 |
Smerk
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 02:03 AM
Hmph...it's not as if I can do anything much to you from here. The worst I could do if I was truly pissed off is delete your post. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 02:09 AM
AND not be my friend anymore!
:down:
Do you know how cool it is to be able to tell my buddies that I have an authentic Australian hottie as a friend???
😛 |
Smerk
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 02:12 AM
:lol: Mark, I doubt that I could ever be that annoyed with you. |
Maegan
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 05:32 AM
"That would mean that professional dancers who spend most of their days on their toes would be a bit crazy too." -Tru
Well, if by professional dancers you mean ballerinas and such, they don't actually wear heels, there is not impact on heel or calf in that particular manner.
But...if you mean strippers (or peelers), then heck, all the ones I've known are one tassel short of being in the crazy house. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 07:59 AM
I don't think he was saying that high heels are the only cause of schizophrenia, just a potential cause.
He sold me when he said "Reduced cortical activity changes dopaminergic function, which involves the basal gangliathalamo-cortical-nigro-basal ganglia loops." |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 08:01 AM
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Maegan
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 09:22 AM
Being diagnosed and being treated are two different things. Besides, I find most non-modern diagnosis suspect, simply b/c things have changed so much - 150 years ago a woman might have been thought to have a heart condition that caused her death, and it actually have been breast cancer.
So a 'diagnosis' of schizophrenia might not have been recognized as such, and say, out of 10 actual cases of schizophrenia only half of them were diagnosed by a medical person as such (thought I'm sure with a different name), while the other 5 were given a diagnosis of any other diseases or ailments. |
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 | 08:03 PM
I don't think wearing high heels publicly implies or causes any mental disorder. It can only hurt your feet and legs, that is for sure. I have seen and sat beside hundreds of women wearing high heels and I can only say they are more confident feeling that their feet is arched.
See my narrated and illustrated weblog of women wearing high heels going to work, supermarket, bus stop and much more places.
<a href="http://metrovoyeur.blogspot.com">Illustrated and narrated street women high heel shoes weblog</a> |
Heel Linda
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 | 07:05 AM
Do high heels make woman crazy? I do think it is. Like my older sister, while she is in high school, she showed no interest in high heels. However, when she was admitted into the college, she bought quiet a few high heels, it soon became a part of her life, I do think every woman like high heels. |
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 | 01:55 AM
They fell out of favour in the 1500's, then came back with such a vengeance in the 1600's that eventually one of the French kings had to set a limit on the height |
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 12:38 PM
A family friend of ours has been wearing high heels for most of her life, and I can attest to Maegan's story: the lady I'm talking about has to buy high-heeled slippers too, exactly for the same reason. |
