While you've often mentioned how your female coworkers react and accept you in heels, I can't help but wonder how it is for you to walk down the hallways outside of your immediate office. Having also worked in a large government office building, I found myself having to interact quite frequently with other departments and activities, attending meetings and functions outside my immediate directorate and eating lunch in the large cafaterias that are prevalent in all large government buildings. What kind of reactrion to you get from people outside of your personal work environment? When you have to go to another place within your building to discuss job requirements or gather information to prepare a job description, do you wear your heels? What reaction do you get from these people outside of your assigned office? And, I am sure there are other men in your office besides yourself. How do they react? As well as men in other departments? Do they accept you in your red slingback pumps as readily as they would if you were JeffB wearing wingtips?
Although I've been acquainted with you here at hhplace since you originally became a member, and greatly admire your openness, courage and perseverance, I know there has to be more to the story of people within your local work setting than just those in the immediate proximity. It's those poeple that I am interested in learning about. After all, there isn't anything more that we (high heel wearers like us) would like than to be able to put on our heels when we get dressed each morning and go out and about the community, doing our normal, routine life activities without a second thought of what's on our feet.
Firefox, calv, and others in London come as close to accomplishing this as anyone I've ever heard about. And, of course, you. Firefox, and some of the others, have made it clear they aren't at all bothered at wearing there boots or other heels in public. But, for a person to wear them as openly as you do while in a large government building here in the USA (expecially in the Washington, DC area) is extraordinary.
You have my (our) complete admiration. Keep it up and keep us posted. |