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AuthorsNnedi Okorafor
Have you read her works? Did you like them?
I have her novel "Akata Witch" which I haven't read, yet.
Locus has published an interview with her that I haven't read yet, either.
I did, however, read her short story "The Palm Tree Bandit" and I loved it! Absolutely recommended, a very feminist tale.
At which shoe size does it become almost 100% objectively confirmed that the owner of the shoes is a male?
Women with feet - or height and other body parts such as hands, heads, wrists, calves, ankles, thighs, shoulders, ears - that are larger than is standard or typical for the majority of our sex already face enough prejudices and practical difficulties in life as it is. Suggesting that someone can be "almost 100% objectively confirmed" as male based on shoe size is sexist, misogynistic claptrap that just makes the lives of women with large feet harder.
Engaging in this kind of judgmental typecasting just plays into and perpepuates the kind of shallow, sexist thinking that gender identity ideology is based on. So I don't get why you've made a post on Ovarit asking others to join you in doing this. It's especially out of place in the Gender Critical circle, which the sidebar says is supposed to be
a women-centered, radical feminist oriented circle to discuss gender from a critical, feminist perspective.
Are you saying that feet and hand size are not good ways of clocking someone then?
Trans ideology spreads stereotypes about gender roles but hand and foot size are not gender roles just biology...
Are there really women who have hands and feet larger than an adult male out there for that same matter?
Are you saying that feet and hand size are not good ways of clocking someone then?
Yes.
Are there really women who have hands and feet larger than an adult male out there for that same matter?
Yes. Women and men both come in a wide variety of sizes. Some men have small hands and feet compared to others of their sex. Some women have large hands and feet compared to others of their sex.
I’m 6’2” and a UK size 9. I struggle to find shoes in my size although there are option now (there used to be issues even getting 8s when I was a kid).
All the women in my family are tall, the men even taller. Size 9 is the biggest the women’s feet in our family go, the men go up to as size 15. The issue is, if we had even taller female family members, would their feet be even bigger?
Yes, most women aren’t as tall as me, but we do exist and it’s hard to get shoes to fit. I can’t really see most women having size UK 11 feet, for instance.
And you're going to learn how to tell someone's exact shoe size from just looking down at their feet for a few seconds?
I don't think this is very viable, at most you could just keep looking down at people's shoes and then when you come across a TIP try to apply prior knowledge there to see how successful you are
Well I was thinking of taking a look in the shoes itself when the person is not wearing it maybe...
Please don't lol, it's weird. And you don't need to go that far tbh, if you didn't clock them at first sight, you will when they start speaking or gesturing.
I am still curious about what is the largest shoe size a woman can have... XD
The size that matches her foot size, which can include sizing out of standard women's sizing, particularly if she's very tall or has a medical condition. There isn't a failsafe cutoff point beyond which only men can tread, sorry. Always outliers. It's a combination of things that end up clocking TIMs, not a number on a shoe.
I see... I was wondering if it was possible for a woman to have a larger feet than a bloke...
Largest I've seen was 11, personally that is. Of course this was a woman's 11.
There aren't a whole lot of situations where you can do that, are you afraid of being TIPfished?
There are quite a bit of countries where people take off their shoes when inside of buildings actually...
That's an odd question. It's the kind of question the larping men ask each other to get info on how/why they get clocked.
Yeah, it's either that or a non-native speaker. I get that feeling from many hellooo fellow ladieeez-style posts.
That being said, I think the more informative statistic is the average shoe size for adults. This is proportional to height. Are men really outside the realm of female height, making man-feet outside the realm of female feet? Sort of. Very few women are even as tall as the average man. (There's a graph of the situation here.) So the average man-sized foot is very likely to belong to a man.
For female-sized feet the statistics are a bit more favorable to the TIF, just because there's a big tail (in statistical terms) of short men.
English is not my native language yes... I would rather not reveal what my native language is due to privacy reasons as that could reveal my location but I study several languages English included...
Agreed. Seems sketchy as you can google this very easily.
Can they really wear female shoes though? It would be uncomfortable would it not?
They don't have to wear "female shoes," though. There have been all sorts of "women's styles" made for men for decades. Because male erotic cross-dressing and male drag acts have been "a thing" forever. The factory-made ones go up to women's size 17.
https://otherworldshoes.com.au/collections/high-heels-for-men
https://www.shoecup.com/collections/pleaser-pink-label
https://janetscloset.com/shoes-boots-heels/
https://www.thedragqueenstore.com/collections/heels-for-men
I've seen heels in men's sizes, the 13 is what I imagine a giant wears lol. It's ginormous.