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[lashbear]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

There's a group on FB about making fun of people who wear Crocs. Event he title is mocking - saying Croc wearers look like a dumbass.

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I think by now most people who wear crocs know they are ugly and accept that fact, and are just fine that people think they choose comfort over style - that in-itself is a statement.

Now see, here's a group I firmly belong in. I happen to adore my Disney Crocs I bought back during the 2007 trip: the same ones I'm wearing today. I wear them for a lot of reasons: they don't make my [diabetic] feet ache after a long days walking, when I'm camping I can wade right through rivers in them and they'll dry quickly, when my feet swell (as they do a lot recently) the crocs are more confortable to wear than lace-up shoes. Lots of reasons.

I don't care if people make fun of me in private for wearing them. I'll never hear what they say or email their friends, and it's OK. Start up a group that I may stumble across and find my picture there, and no, I won't accept the fact that I've been selected to be publicly humiliated. I will be sad and very angry that people judge and ridicule me publicly for my choice of footware, particularly in an open forum where there is the chance I might see my public ridiculing for myself. Bonus points for that, I guess, especially if I acknowledge on that forum that I am upset about it.

So, should I just stop wearing crocs and wear "nomal" shoes to avoid the right and just punishment for my crime, which is being ridiculed in public? I guess so. The decreased circulation and possibility of losing my feet later in life is acceptable, because, after all, at least I'll "Fit the norm" for now.

...I wonder if they'll mock me for only having one foot?

Originally Posted by Prudence

But people who wear sweatpants to grocery shop? Or who haven't the foggiest clue how to dress fashionably? I might not be able to stop the internal snicker - that's human. But I don't have to snap a photo and post it publicly with the caption "world's lamest people". If a photo of me in a costume-like get-up makes the rounds - hey, I did it to be noticed. When photos of me going about my usual life get posted for public ridicule because I've been judged insufficiently attractive to be in public, that's pretty harsh. There are plenty of other ways I can make myself feel good that don't involve making other people feel bad.

VPM !!

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by lashbear

Now see, here's a group I firmly belong in. I happen to adore my Disney Crocs I bought back during the 2007 trip: the same ones I'm wearing today. I wear them for a lot of reasons: they don't make my [diabetic] feet ache after a long days walking, when I'm camping I can wade right through rivers in them and they'll dry quickly, when my feet swell (as they do a lot recently) the crocs are more confortable to wear than lace-up shoes. Lots of reasons.

And, when you pee in gutters along the side of the road and your pee runs downhill where you happen to be standing, the crocs dry quickly too!

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by lashbear

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So, should I just stop wearing crocs and wear "nomal" shoes to avoid the right and just punishment for my crime, which is being ridiculed in public? I guess so. The decreased circulation and possibility of losing my feet later in life is acceptable, because, after all, at least I'll "Fit the norm" for now.

Only to the extent you desire not to be potentially mocked for your choice of footware. I think we can drive ourselves crazy trying to dress and appear in such a way that no one ever will make fun of us. In the end, you have to wear what you like wearing, like what it says about you, and not bother yourself about the thoughts or comments of others, because someone somewhere will find something wrong about it.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by lashbear

...I wonder if they'll mock me for only having one foot?

Apparently not:

"If you have a mental handicap -- that's not funny. If you have lost a leg and you're on a crutch or in a wheelchair, some people may laugh at that, but we don't find it funny."