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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>natasha@natasha.cc<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] how did high heels happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Looking at high heels is like looking at sculpture -- Blanco Manolo, Jimmy Cho, Prada YSL !!<span style='color:#1F497D'>..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK. Natasha, I am glad you responded to this. You have that aesthetic art thing going. To me, high heels look like a sculpture of a torture device.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> Looking at a leg in high heels is aesthetically pleasing<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>It just looks painful to me. Perhaps I am overthinking it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> Wearing high heels feels sexy.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is exactly where I was going. I have long had a notion that those kinds of shoes are auto-erotic somehow. I am trying to figure out what is the hetero male counterpart. All I can come up with is good sturdy work boots. They feel manly as all get out. I wouldn’t expect women to find them sexy, or seeing a man in those shoes sexy, but when I wear them, it speaks to the reptilian core of my brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Understanding that we have a reptilian cortex does not mean we stop having one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Not all high heels are uncomfortable. I have a pair of Softt 3" heels that are more comfortable than my gym shoes<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK again. I am not claiming any expertise in this area. My bride doesn’t wear them, never has. But watching old movies this week, I noted that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, except backwards in high heels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja. We know this child isn’t doing this for height. She is taller than average, but would prefer to be petite. Looking at her genetic makeup, it is unlikely she will be less than about 5 ft 9 inches (Europeans and others who use a sensible system of measure, this is nearly 2 sigma tall for women. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Stop worrying about this. Be glad that she isn't asking for a set of jock straps<span style='color:#1F497D'>. </span>Natasha<o:p></o:p></p><p>Oddly enough, if she were a jock, this particular family would likely have been more comfortable than if she has displayed these girly girl tendencies this young. They are sports types, not fashion types. We don’t know where these particular genes came from. But I can assure you, this child has an eye for fashion. She knows way more about it at age 6 than I do at 51.<o:p></o:p></p><p>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>