I feel like this is the first big whiff I've read on Discourse.
First of all, business attire sucks shit. It's expensive and uncomfortable and ugly and doesn't work in any climate. The shoes without exception hurt to wear for a whole day. For men the style has not changed at all for the last solid century except to cycle from slightly looser to slightly tighter silhouettes every decade or so.
But second and more salient, why do you want the people at the helm of the instruments of our repression dressing in a way that indicates command and authority? Let them wear ballcaps and t-shirts with blazers and cargo shorts. Let their intimidation factor be as close to zero as possible so we see them for the clowns they are and people aren't cowed out of organizing against them.
Bahahahahaha this made me laugh so much. Sure it's a power move to show up in a super expensive custom tailored suit and the most buttery leather shoes, coiffed and manicured to the 9s. But man this piece made me feel old and fuddy 😅 And Elon couldn't dress like that if he had to because it requires a sense of style and self assurance that does touch him at all.
as a Hoka-wearer with a bad back that you don't care about, I think you're overreaching on your real point. you don't get to it until your final grafs but I happen to agree with you. the problem is that wanting to sartorially distinguish the enemy just isn't a thing we can afford to care about right now. we know who the enemy is. they've spend a LOT of money revealing themselves to us. so I'm gonna keep my Hokas, but I promise I still dress up for the theatre.
im tempted to give you a pass because you provide an essential service and are on your feet every day but when it comes down to it society needs its library workers to be wearing proper footwear like really weird boots or sandals made to look like the soles are books or something
I'm almost 60, I work retail and do an average of 8000 steps a day. I also have plantar fasciitis, and I wear ON running shoes with my jersey knit pants. And I'm not going back to flats, let alone Chelsea boots. Sorry not sorry.
I also find HOKA shoes ugly, but come talk to me when you have feet or back issues.
This is an even a worse take than claiming Ratatouille was better than WALL-E.
Which is quiet the feat (or feet in this case) since the climax of Ratatouille was Rat Chef replacing all of the restaurant's workers with unpaid scab labor while WALL-E's was the robot sacrificing himself to give humanity a chance to break away from the path of mindless consumerism.
Hi, person who was born with flat wide feet who has to wear orthotics or will literally break her fragile foot bones here, my shoes are expensive. $500 CDN for the shoes and $250 CDN for the orthotics. Sometimes I get a deal and they take $100 CDN off the cost of the shoes. I'm unemployed, so this is out of pocket expense. I can def add it to my tax return though.
I would never wear running shoes to work, unless I was SPECIFICALLY asked to do that. My work orthotic shoes look like chunky Mary Janes with velcro straps. I'm on Team LACES REALLY SUCK.
My sandals also have velcro, for that same reason. My dad bothers me about this and says that velcro is for people that can't tie their own shoes and kids. Did you know being able to tie your shoes is a benchmark for neurotypicals to tell how much of an adult you are or how smart you are if you're neurodivergent?
I also can't fit into women's boots comfortably. I can only wear mountain boots, even in the winter.
They have laces, and they hurt my feet something terrible. I usually refuse to wear them and wear my clunky Mary Janes instead...bounding over snow drifts like an elephant.
Noone has really thought about making shoes for autistic women with flat and wide feet. No-one even think women HAVE wide feet, because it's typically men that do.
I only have really three pairs of shoes, four if you count the boots from hell. Somehow, being practical with shoes as a women is anathema to actually being a women. :/
I'm envisioning Mirkinson or Aleks wearing these to a meeting, Cros giving him crap, then Cros getting unanimous approval in Discourse Blog Slack to go ahead and ravage, just not explicitly by name.
I'm assuming here the Women Of Discourse are too classy for work-Hokas, but that may be bad assumptions on my part.
shit take, dress codes are classist bullshit. there’s an infinite list of specific things to call foul on these people for. don’t get distracted with the paparazzi bullshit
Hey, at least they are wearing shoes. In the DotCom boom in San Francisco in the late nineties you could pick out the smells at the front door to and determine how far the company was from its IPO: dogs? Dogs + feet? Dogs + feet + pot?
Hey, at least they are wearing shoes. In the DotCom boom in San Francisco in the late nineties you could pick out the smells and determine how far the company was from its IPO: dogs? Dogs + feet? Dogs + feet + pot?
I feel like this is the first big whiff I've read on Discourse.
First of all, business attire sucks shit. It's expensive and uncomfortable and ugly and doesn't work in any climate. The shoes without exception hurt to wear for a whole day. For men the style has not changed at all for the last solid century except to cycle from slightly looser to slightly tighter silhouettes every decade or so.
But second and more salient, why do you want the people at the helm of the instruments of our repression dressing in a way that indicates command and authority? Let them wear ballcaps and t-shirts with blazers and cargo shorts. Let their intimidation factor be as close to zero as possible so we see them for the clowns they are and people aren't cowed out of organizing against them.
1. no it doesn't, no they don't, yes i like that it's good
2. because it's far more humiliating to me that the guys running society into the ground dress like dorks than if they looked the part
3. it's a blog we're all having fun here
Who replaced Cros with my dad?
child, it’s me. it’s your dad. it’s been me all along. tell your mother I love her
I've missed you so much, pops! 😭😭😭
Bahahahahaha this made me laugh so much. Sure it's a power move to show up in a super expensive custom tailored suit and the most buttery leather shoes, coiffed and manicured to the 9s. But man this piece made me feel old and fuddy 😅 And Elon couldn't dress like that if he had to because it requires a sense of style and self assurance that does touch him at all.
as a Hoka-wearer with a bad back that you don't care about, I think you're overreaching on your real point. you don't get to it until your final grafs but I happen to agree with you. the problem is that wanting to sartorially distinguish the enemy just isn't a thing we can afford to care about right now. we know who the enemy is. they've spend a LOT of money revealing themselves to us. so I'm gonna keep my Hokas, but I promise I still dress up for the theatre.
you are correct this blog was not directed at people who wear big shoes for medical reasons
I felt extremely personally attacked by this one Cros. Have you been hanging out around my office?
yes. im there right now. look behind you. too slow. im gone. now look down. i tied the shoelaces of your hokas together
As a library worker who was wearing jeans and hokas to work today, im in this post and I don’t like it 🤣
im tempted to give you a pass because you provide an essential service and are on your feet every day but when it comes down to it society needs its library workers to be wearing proper footwear like really weird boots or sandals made to look like the soles are books or something
I'm almost 60, I work retail and do an average of 8000 steps a day. I also have plantar fasciitis, and I wear ON running shoes with my jersey knit pants. And I'm not going back to flats, let alone Chelsea boots. Sorry not sorry.
I also find HOKA shoes ugly, but come talk to me when you have feet or back issues.
This is an even a worse take than claiming Ratatouille was better than WALL-E.
Which is quiet the feat (or feet in this case) since the climax of Ratatouille was Rat Chef replacing all of the restaurant's workers with unpaid scab labor while WALL-E's was the robot sacrificing himself to give humanity a chance to break away from the path of mindless consumerism.
running shoes with jeans wearer detected
nothing you say will ever make wall-e better
Hi, person who was born with flat wide feet who has to wear orthotics or will literally break her fragile foot bones here, my shoes are expensive. $500 CDN for the shoes and $250 CDN for the orthotics. Sometimes I get a deal and they take $100 CDN off the cost of the shoes. I'm unemployed, so this is out of pocket expense. I can def add it to my tax return though.
I would never wear running shoes to work, unless I was SPECIFICALLY asked to do that. My work orthotic shoes look like chunky Mary Janes with velcro straps. I'm on Team LACES REALLY SUCK.
My sandals also have velcro, for that same reason. My dad bothers me about this and says that velcro is for people that can't tie their own shoes and kids. Did you know being able to tie your shoes is a benchmark for neurotypicals to tell how much of an adult you are or how smart you are if you're neurodivergent?
I also can't fit into women's boots comfortably. I can only wear mountain boots, even in the winter.
They have laces, and they hurt my feet something terrible. I usually refuse to wear them and wear my clunky Mary Janes instead...bounding over snow drifts like an elephant.
Noone has really thought about making shoes for autistic women with flat and wide feet. No-one even think women HAVE wide feet, because it's typically men that do.
I only have really three pairs of shoes, four if you count the boots from hell. Somehow, being practical with shoes as a women is anathema to actually being a women. :/
I'm envisioning Mirkinson or Aleks wearing these to a meeting, Cros giving him crap, then Cros getting unanimous approval in Discourse Blog Slack to go ahead and ravage, just not explicitly by name.
I'm assuming here the Women Of Discourse are too classy for work-Hokas, but that may be bad assumptions on my part.
it's absolutely preposterous that you think i wouldn't call out any of the rest of the staff by name if they were offenders
how dare you I don’t wear hokas
the idea that i would wear these shoes is deeply offensive
It was a hypothetical!
are you seriously defending business attire, come on man
shit take, dress codes are classist bullshit. there’s an infinite list of specific things to call foul on these people for. don’t get distracted with the paparazzi bullshit
no its a good take running shoes at work is a dork move
care about better things
Hey, at least they are wearing shoes. In the DotCom boom in San Francisco in the late nineties you could pick out the smells at the front door to and determine how far the company was from its IPO: dogs? Dogs + feet? Dogs + feet + pot?
Hey, at least they are wearing shoes. In the DotCom boom in San Francisco in the late nineties you could pick out the smells and determine how far the company was from its IPO: dogs? Dogs + feet? Dogs + feet + pot?