Stiod Sharing: Foldable High Heels

Have you heard of Marte den Hollander? No problem if not, I did not either until I thought I had an Stiod and went researching.

I kind of feel some stiod are mostly a wish. But however. This designer created these shoes with heels that can be folded into comfortable flats. It  just makes my wish/stiod true and I am pretty happy and hopeful I’ll see these versatile shoes on the stores.

Soon we will be able to rock and roll all night in high heels and rest in our way home, with a cute and comfortable pair of flats.

 

 

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Stiod Opinion: Gender Inflection for saving women equality

Presidenta Dilma (credit: Wikipedia)

I’d like to thank a linguist friend for the insight. Portuguese is a gender inflected language. That means if you say “beautiful woman” in Portuguese, you have to mark “beautiful” such a way it tells you it is feminine. Check: “Bonito” (masculine beautiful) and “Bonita” (feminine beautiful) etc.

Now Brazilian President (the Brazilians speak Portuguese) shall to inflect the word President (presidente and presidenta) etc. Now there is a law for that. It does not exactly control the spoken language, but at least the written ones, diplomas, certificates etc. So, if you are a master it will be different if you are man or woman (mestre, mestra), if you are Chemist (químico, química) etc. It was not so in many professions that were common for both genders.

It represents a step forward if you think of the position of women in the work market etc., but it is in fact a step backward: just think of the freedom of sexuality/ gender. Sad. Moreover, you cannot rule a language, or dictate about a field you are not expert in.

To the presidenta’s and other politicians’ trying to be “politically correct”, I give her some tips:

• Allow women having menstrual leave two or three days a month at work and school;
• Demand women having long hair (and forbid that from men), so to say their femininity;
• Free makeup program: It is not fair women being ugly and less feminine – check her look before and after her journey to the presidency.
• Epilation in the state health clinics (different kinds, for respecting the woman’s personality)

I do like Dilma Rousseff in a bunch of aspects, and admire her as politicia. But let’s be realistic, she`s not linguist and did she consult any of them, tell me so I satirize her/him instead,

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