Women's feet are a mess (not so with men's feet)

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27. My feet are living proof

of what bad shoes can do to women's bodies. Not just their feet.

Years ago I saw x-rays of my feet.

Oh. My. God.

The bones in my feet are shaped like
this: ~

Like a stretched-out "S".

My shoes eventually take the same "S" shape.

The arches are non-existent.

My left foot has arthritis near the heel.

My knees are painful and swollen and missing a significant amount of cartilage (if I bend them even a little bit while standing, anyone listening to them from six inches away can hear squishing and grinding).

I can't even wear shoes with a heel more than 1" high anymore, and the toe box must be rounded and very deep.

And in 2008 I had Plantar Fasciitis for four months straight. Let me tell you...it is one of the most painful things I've ever had besides an infected tooth. Worse than childbirth. Someone described it as "like walking on bloody stumps". That is putting it mildly. It is torture.

Some of the shoes young women wear these days absolutely horrify me, and I want to shake them and tell them they're setting themselves up for some bad things later in life.