After #metoo, a campaign against sexual assault and harassment of women, Japanese women are rising up on another ground with the #kutoo. Women hired under this banner on social networks are attacking a dress code that requires Japanese women to be perched on high heels at work. The activists gathered under this hashtag which alludes to the Japanese terms kutsu (“shoes”) and kutsuu (“pain”), express their fed-up with this straitjacket, source of pain in the feet, and claim the right to wear the shoes. shoes they want.
The movement was started by Yumi Ishikawa, Japanese actress and model, with a post on Twitter. His rant was picked up on social networks, many women hearing denounce what they consider an avatar of misogyny.
“Wearing uncomfortable and harmful shoes is not an obligation. Let’s eliminate misogyny together”, launched an Internet user on Twitter, taken up by the ndtv site. “Pumps are the modern equivalent of fixing the foot. It is a mistake to force women to wear them,” says yet another user on the microblogging site.
On Instagram, the designer Rika Asakawa took up the cause of this fight by crunching a Japanese woman boxing a pair of pumps.
The movement has grown to such an extent that petition launched on change.org for the end of this custom has already exceeded 17,128 signatories.
High heels, enemies of the feet
Although considered aesthetic by amateurs, wearing high heels is not without consequences for health. Walking in this type of shoe shifts the center of gravity to the front of the foot. This imbalance puts great pressure on the toes, all the more so as the centimeters at the heels increase. Women expose themselves by force to a certain risk of injury : Hallux valgus, ingrown nail, metatarsalgia(forefoot pain), ankle sprain, Plantar Fasciitis, sciatica pain… The knee joint, more bent under the effect of the heels, can also be damaged more quickly, and developosteoarthritis.
In 2014 in Russia, a deputy from a center-left party proposed toprohibit heels over 5 centimeters for the health of Russian women’s feet.
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