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Nikia

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10. I tend not to walk "like a girl"
Sat May 5, 2012, 03:45 PM
May 2012

Because I walked a lot as a child and despite having below average physical coordination, I was a good runner and very efficient. I walk faster than average without unecessary side to side hip movement.
Many women do tend to walk slower and have more hip movement in order to look more attractive. Some of this is on purpose. Other times, I think that it is caused by wearing shoes that make it more difficult to walk fast and efficiently like heeled shoes or even dress flats are narrow and don't have rubber or other comfortable bottoms. I know that many women, even feminists, defend wearing restrictive foot wear. I suppose that if you think that it makes you look good and don't find it overally restrictive, keep wearing it. Insisting that it is a vital part of being female though, is just wrong.

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