It's like people having breast implants

What Sex and the City did was to mix up an appreciation of pumps shoes with an assertion of one’s identity as a strong, successful and independent woman. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, its creators transformed shoes into a tool of self-actualisation. And this is something that certain cultural commentators have taken issue with.When I asked Germaine Greer why she thinks so many women see shoes as an expression of their identity, she replied: “I very much doubt that women really think that. It’s what they’re told they think. It’s like people having breast implants and saying that they’re majestically empowered by having a bottom grafted onto their chest. It’s a delusion but it’s a delusion that’s probably common enough to be exploited by marketing.”
 Perhaps marketing has been able to exploit this delusion so successfully because there always has been something special about black pumps. Foot fetishists existed long before programmes like Eurotrash began poking fun at them in the 90s and toe-sucking was going on for hundreds of years before Sarah Ferguson and Madonna introduced the practice to a whole new generation around the same time. Articles from: http://www.ushoes2014.com/wedge-brown-wedge-c-39_48.html

It's like people having breast implants