MEN WALKING ON WOMEN`S HIGH-HEELED SHOES

MEN ON WOMEN`S HIGH HEEL SHOES

Surely, high-heeled shoes are in a class of their own because to be able to walk in them, one really needs to be able to perform a veritable balancing act. But as we know, from time immemorial high-heeled shoes have been and remained a women`s affair.

However, that trend is perhaps about to change because according to a record carried in Chronicle newspaper, men were to march in women`s high-heeled shoes on the 5<sup>th</sup> of July (today) in Bamenda, capital of Cameroon`s North West Region. According to the paper, the demonstration is a solidarity gesture being staged in support for the over 200 girls who were kidnapped in the Nigerian town of Chibok in Borno State about two months ago and to this day have not been returned.

According to the report, the protest march was to start from the City Chemist Roundabout at 9 a.m. and then proceed to the Commercial Avenue Grandstand and was to be manned by “over 100 well-meaning men and boys”. The action was called for by a Bamenda-based organization known as `A Common Future`.

The idea is to send a message to the kidnappers that just as the walkers are having it rough in women`s high-heeled shoes, so to is child bearing, especially when heartless groups like the Boko Haram seem to find it so cheap to kidnap other people`s daughters. Chronicle quotes a press release announcing the protest rally as saying: “By marching in women`s high heel shoes, these men would be reminding the powers that be – especially member states of the United Nations – that they may be taking all their time because the (kidnapped) Chibok girls are not their direct  offspring. If they were, they would have known how the shoe pinches.”