Well, Bluestar, here are the heels I'm wearing right now.
And, yes, I know that men used to wear corsets, wigs and pumps. And carry purses. And they weren't even laughed at for writing poetry.
I understand that men in heels has a certain novelty that would be otherwise lacking in female participants. Then again, I would be impressed to see anyone walk a mile in four-inch stilettos. Yikes!
What kind of annoys me is this. The concept for the fund-raiser seems to connect "men putting themselves in the woman's position," with rape. As if men are rapists, unless they learn to "put themselves in the woman's position." Or as if the consensual inconvenience of heels had something to do with the horror of being pinned to the floor and violated by a stranger with a knife and possibly an STD.
On the other hand, if "Wearing her shoes" were simply about understanding the pain of rape victims, rather than some larger feminist message of "You men don't know how hard it is to be a womyn," I'd be fine with it. And I'd expect women to be walking too, not just us hard-hearted men, that need to learn some sympathy and stop raping people.
Or am I just over-analyzing?
