InStyle: Blame Men for Uncomfortable Shoes

We have never encountered a man as obsessed with women’s shoes as InStyle’s Hal Rubinstein apparently is. Granted, it’s his job.  Still, take a look at this confusing—and confused—paragraph from March’s “The Look”:

Despite their ridiculously sexy appeal, or maybe because of it, stilettos are forever damned as one of men’s most diabolical inventions in the never-ending quest to ensnare women in male fantasies.

Damned stilettos?  Men being diabolical?  We don’t even know what that sentence means, but we’re totally on board. 

Fine.  But who are you going to blame for these towering totterers?

Men.  That’s who he just said was to blame for those other uncomfortable shoes, right?

We’ll bet a trunkful of Manolos that you can’t find one man who has ever said to his honey, “Why not get out those stacked platforms I love so much.”

We’ll bet a trunkful of Manolos that the vast majority of men never even comment on—or notice—the shoes worn by their “honey,” stacked platforms or not.  Which is why blaming men may be problematic. 

They don’t think that way.  But women do.

Hal, you’re confusing us again.  But never mind—once we’ve collected our bounty of Blahniks, we’ll never consider this matter again.  At least until the next time you bring it up.

Further corroboration of Hal Rubinstein’s obsession: As If He Even Looks At Your Shoes