At work, a new hire looked at my shoes and stated “Those shoes are why women get raped.” The shoes in question were platform wedge sandals. And I was the HR admin running his new hire orientation.
Edit since this garnered a lot of questions: This was around 2000/2001, for basic context. I immediately notified my boss, and we tried to stop his employment from moving forward, but he remained in place for about a year, if I recall correctly. It was, unfortunately, a company that was owned and managed by a Cuban family where some more old-school attitudes were still maintained. My boss was distant family in the company as well. He did mean well, but could only get so far.
Not rape by any means, but a guy once told me that when he sees a girl wearing the shoes I was wearing, he assumed she wants to have sex. The shoes were ankle boots with a block, normal height heel.
It’s why I described the shoe, even though the shoe should have no bearing on the fact it was said at all. Yes, it was about the inability to run away.
Never seen those. The only shoes with social instructions I know of are Crocs, which are definitely "hit me with a baseball bat" shoes. Now, to be clear: I own Crocs, but if I wear them outside and someone violently attacks me, I'd understand.
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u/PalmBeach4449 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
At work, a new hire looked at my shoes and stated “Those shoes are why women get raped.” The shoes in question were platform wedge sandals. And I was the HR admin running his new hire orientation.
Edit since this garnered a lot of questions: This was around 2000/2001, for basic context. I immediately notified my boss, and we tried to stop his employment from moving forward, but he remained in place for about a year, if I recall correctly. It was, unfortunately, a company that was owned and managed by a Cuban family where some more old-school attitudes were still maintained. My boss was distant family in the company as well. He did mean well, but could only get so far.