NEW STUDY AFFIRMS THE OBVIOUS …
By FITSNEWS || In a nod to our founding editor’s legendary shoe fetish, a French researcher has used four different experiments to “prove” that men are more responsive to women who wear high heels than they are to women who wear flat shoes.
And the odds makers take a beating, right?
The studies – performed by University of Bretagne psychologist Nicolas Gueguen – put women in four different situations and measured male (and female) responses. In one situation, women asked men to participate in a gender equality survey. In another, women asked for men’s input on food habit consumption. In a third study, men were observed trailing behind a woman who dropped a glove. In the fourth study, women sat alone in a bar and waited for men to approach them.
The results? According to Gueguen, 83 percent of men helped women in 3.5″ heels with their gender equality survey – compared to helping only 47 percent of women who wore flats. Similarly 82 percent of men helped women in 3.5″ heels with their food survey – compared to helping only 42 percent of flat-wearers.
Women only helped out 33 percent of time – regardless of the height of the survey taker’s shoes.
As for the dropped glove, 93 percent of men retrieved it for women in heels compared to only 62 percent who did so for women in flats.
And at the bar? Women in heels waited an average of seven minutes and 49 seconds to be approached – while women in flats had to wait 14 minutes.
So … what’s driving this love of heels?
“Change in gait, foot-size judgment, and misattribution of sexiness and sexual intent were used as possible explanations,” researchers noted.
Hmmmm …
What do we make of these results? Not much, really. It’s no big secret men think high heels are sexy – although we agree they can (and often do) misattribute sexual intent. One thing is clear: Whether it’s sexist or not, men are far more likely to respond to women who wear high heels than women who wear flats.
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49 comments
It’s simple: women who think they are sexy wear high heels. And nothing is sexier than a woman who thinks she is sexy.
Plus, they make us guys all rapey.
Speak for yourself. Horny does not equal rapey for all of us. Thank God!
C’mon,Buz. That was an obvious comedic throwback to the Liz article. Must I spell everything out?
Just not all that funny to me.
Nothing is.
Is this a cultural phenomenon or a biological phenomenon.
For instance, would this experiment have the same result among New Guinea
pigmies. The Chinese use to bind women’s feet in childhood.
I think first you would have to figure out if New Guinea pigmy women wear gloves. Good for at least a Million $$$ Federal grant money.
Just goes to show, you can’t keep a good fetish down.
So to speak.
The ones on the left don’t do much for me. The ones in the middle, are A-1!!!!!
Middle A+, Right A, Left B-. Lack of stocking and garters or fishnets = no extra credit points.
Yeah, it is kinda odd objectively…..but it’s undeniable heels are hot. Especially, as the Eagles sang, when “You got those pretty little straps around your ankles”
I want my 60 seconds back!
What a waste of my time!
fag….
Because an article titled “. . . study affirms the obvious” is so intriguing.
Go pack sand.
Excuse me if I refuse to give any credence at all to anyones’ opinion who names himself after two ghetto crackheads.
High heels make a women more attractive because they make her legs look longer.
anything a woman does to attract attention to herself, to make herself more attractive, is interpreted by men as “an easier mark.”
Wearing shoes that are painful and damaging to one’s feet, is interpreted by men as a special kind of vulnerability and social desperation.
Makeup and hair design may be time-consuming and inconvenient, but to really stand out, wearing cruel shoes, mutilating breasts, and facial surgery are much more dramatic.
I really like your comment. I’ve always felt the same way. I love beautiful women, but hate that many women have disfigured themselves to seek attention from men.
The first thing I thought of when you said “cruel shoes” was the ancient ritual Chinese foot binding that women used to undergo to please their man and reflect his financial standing.
actually, I stole “cruel shoes” from Steve Martin.
Thanks for the enlightenment, Gloria Steinem.
you’re welcome, generic prick.
I’m not a generic prick, I’m a very specific kind of prick, one who reviles pretentious, pedantic Post-modernist” “deconstructionalist” navel-gazers like you who’ve never realized there’s life outside graduate school.
life, huh? is that what you call it, you sick fuck?
Surely you have a better vocabulary than that….I must have sent a serious ripple through the amniotic fluid of your blissful academic womb.
“I don’t have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.”
That’s a little better, but not by much. D+
I really don’t need a report card from a bullshit, splooge gargling, bottle squatting pescadero.
It amuses me greatly how easily I can transform you from a wannabee quasi-intellectual spouting liberal claptrap, into a frustrated adolescent spewing potty words. But it’s sad when you get incoherent. I assume the word you were reaching for was “spooge”, and the only reference I can find for “Pescadero” is a small town in California.
Shows your limited knowledge of creative cursing.
I appreciate the artistic use of profanity as much as anyone, but it should have some sense of context and inherent meaning to make it effective….if I told you to “go cram a wombat up your Manifest Destiny”, would that make any sense?
I’d have to see citations proving none of it made sense to any sentient human beings. ;)
nope, splooge was the perfect word..
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Splooge
and pescadero
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/translate/spanish-english/pescadero
doesn’t say much for “the only reference you can find.”
you must be disadvantaged… are you living in the projects, maybe the son of a crack whore, or maybe a homeless kid making a living trolling the drag? You can’t be Mexican, because you don’t know Spanish, so I figure you’re black and on welfare.
My advice is.. don’t worry about what other people think… just don’t give up… just be yourself – it’s your best quality.
Sigh,,,how you must envy the track record of the proverbial stopped clock that’s right at least twice a day. “Spooge” is the commonly accepted synonym for jizz. And no, I’m not Mexican and have no interest in their language. I’m passably functional in German, but have no knowledge or interest in Urdu, Swahili, Pashtun, Spanish or any other gutter languages. Never been on welfare in my life, unless you consider 4 years in the infantry as being on the public dole.
If I were “black and on welfare”, my lice infested ass would be at the Richland County Public Library typing this on a taxpayer supplied terminal and stinking the place up….wrong again.
It’s odd though that a anarcho-Marxist Fawkesian type as your self would think calling me homeless or black would insult me….I thought your ilk worshipped those sorts.
“Spooge” is the commonly accepted synonym for jizz.
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http://www.orlandoforums.com/forum/lobby/17623-poll-spooge-splooge.html
unless you consider 4 years in the infantry as being on the public dole.
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worse.
If I were “black and on welfare”, my lice infested ass would be at the Richland County Public Library typing this on a taxpayer supplied terminal and stinking the place up
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I figured you were one of those high tech welfare guys who stole IT equipment to download porn.
You’ve got more issues than Life magazine.
Ah! Scholar-shaming rears its ugly head.
Ooooooo Catfight! Catfight! … :-}
Eh. Over-thinking it. But I like the way you express your ideas, anyway. At least, I like them better than those of that smug, trollish prick who is responding to them derisively.
Over-thinking things gives me more interesting ideas to express.
That was pretty good, right there.
I try too hard. :)
Makes my feet hurt just to look at them. OWWWWW!
Those pointy ends ruin it.. the newer style are wider – open toed. Looks much better, though probably hurt just as much.
Max, you may be a total “progressive” commie wannabe, but we do respect your sense of style … IBID below … thumbs up.
To my war weary eyes, “the more toe” the better.
Fuck a bunch of “progressive” – I’m a liberal.
Me too! I’m a “Classic Liberal” fur sure … (wikipedia come close.)
There aren’t enough of us.
Too fucking many Republicans.
Too many corrupt and hypocritical multi-faced poli-wogs, fur sure.
Duh! Back in the caveman days (which I barely remember) the high heels were made of stones and sticks, which made for some very entertaining trips to the powder room.
High heels are a distraction … To us red blooded savages.
I say, there should be a national holiday devoted to high heels. Like Black Friday or a White Christmas … How about a High Heel Holiday on or around April 1st … That’s a bit too close to taxsucker day, but in line with spring … when a young man’s fancy begins to thaw. … Let me know, I’ll bring the fireworks!