Who would have guessed?
Admin begs for PROOOOOF!!! and when I post it, he pretends he did not see it.
Cope, Admin. Cope.
I think I will post more...
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Having tiny feet as a guy is hell
Not sure if this is the correct sub for this, feel free to remove it, or, if you know where to, redirect it.
Some backstory: I was laughed at and ridiculed for having tiny feet since I was a teenager. It started with girls at my school who were pointing at my feet and laughing. Took me a while to understand what was going on since I paid no thought to my feet at all before that incident. Later, I overheard my aunt asking my mother why my feet were so small. Another time, when I was looking for shoes for my graduation in a shoe store, and I said that the shoes were too big, a woman working there laughingly said that my feet are tiny and even girls these days have bigger feet than me.
There were countless incidents later on which I don't want to recall. Surprisingly an overwhelming majority involved women. Now I'm not some misogynist or anything, it's just an interesting fact. I only got two comments from men, and they were more in the vein of "Huh that's weird". My friend once said, "Wow your feet are tiny, they look like geisha feet". He apologized later when I told him that this is an insecurity of mine.
Anyway, all those incidents led to me being highly insecure about my feet. That means not taking my shoes off if I can, or if I have to, hiding them to the best of my abilities to avoid unnecessary comments. Shoe shopping is a nightmare if I have to interact with the workers there. Wearing open shoes, sandals, etc is impossible, I can only imagine how comfortable it feels in the heat of summer but alas not an option for me. The insecurity would kill me.
It doesn't seem to be a popular problem. It seems I'm one of the rare unlucky outliers. I've been searching about this topic occasionally both here and on Reddit - not much comes up. Most of them devolve into three kinds of responses: 1) "I have the opposite kind of a problem, I have big feet". Ok, but aside from practical issues like finding shoes, which, mind you, people like me also have, what's the problem exactly? It's kind of expected of men. 2) "Nobody pays attention to feet". My experience strongly contradicts this. Maybe they don't if you fit some kind of expected range, but once you're an outlier - watch out, all eyes are on you! 3) The usual dick-size shoe-size stuff which anyone with half a brain knows is not real, and I'm living proof. Plus the joke is banal.
For the record, I'm a 30 years old male, 5'7", skinny, feet size 6.5-7 (38,5-39 EU), very narrow, high arch. Most of the shoes I wear are size 8 since I don't have much of a choice. Some fit ok, some not.
Where I live a considerable amount of women have bigger feet than me, I'm not talking about men. Hell, even teenagers have much bigger feet. Men my height or lower have feet that are bigger by 2 to 4 sizes. It's ridiculous
I've been battling with my perception of my appearance for a long time. Height, weight, weird long crooked nose, and countless others - all of them are either a non-issue by now or were turned from a flaw to a feature in my mind. My feet remain an unsurpassable obstacle for me.
Does anyone else have the same experience? Any advice on how to deal with this shit?
So far, general advice from what I’ve gathered from whatever I could find on the internet seems to be: suck it down, it’s not a problem. That’s not helpful.
@The Prowler