Friday 24 August 2007

Fuck me shoes

Wired is carrying a report on the "Aphrodite" shoe which is aimed at prostitutes. The shoe, carries an alarm which when activated sends a signal to the local police along with a GPS location?

Which brings to mind another phrase "are you shitting me?" Did whoever designed this shoe not think for one second that putting a 9 button electronic device on the heel of a shoe might just be a tad tricky to use?

The first time I came across "fuck me shoes" was when feminist and academic Germaine Greer launched an attack on the columnist Suzanne Moore. Greer described Moore's appearance as "hair bird's-nested all over the place, fuck me shoes, and three fat layers of cleavage".

When you see Moore you get Greer's point:

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