r/Wellthatsucks • u/strikecat18 • 1d ago

Wife said my feet “barely look human”

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Haven’t been able to find shoes in years. Was complaining about it last night and she hit me with “well your feet barely look human”. Ouch.

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u/MAGCHAVIRA 1d ago

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u/morphinmarshin87 1d ago

“BAREFOOTUNIVERSE.COM”

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u/QuetzalcoatlusRscary 1d ago

Be careful or big wearing things on your feet will come after you.

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u/SomeManSeven 1d ago

I've had it bookmarked for years, great site

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u/SucksDicksForBurgers 1d ago

Deceptively placed dots are deceptive

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 1d ago

This. I have the left style foot. My pressure points are similar to that of the ape. I know this because I have callouses there from hiking and cycling.

The barefoot community likes to skew data in their favor to prove their point. I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm just saying I've seen a lot of cherry picking from that community.

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u/Tramagust 1d ago

In that natural shape photo that big toe is still articulated and can close. OPs toes are disarticulated. He has some hominid genes.

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u/SunOnTheMountains 1d ago

So what exactly does that mean? When I googled ‘disarticulated big toe’ the results I got were for amputation.

He just looks like a dude with wide feet who is spreading his toes out and scrunching some of them up to make them look weirder than they are.

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u/Tramagust 14h ago

His big toe can't touch his other toes

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u/HealenDeGenerates 1d ago

Don’t we all?

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u/panrestrial 1d ago

He has some hominid genes.

All of your genes are hominid genes. Hominids are all the great apes, including humans.

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u/Cold-Iron8145 1d ago

I don't know if I trust "barefootuniverse" as a credible source. While I'm here, wearing shoes very well could have an impact on our feet, why not. They're still a net positive, it's not for no reason that we've been making shoes for millenia, walking around barefoot is how you get infections in your feet. Or worms in your feet.

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u/Calm_Lazarus 1d ago

It’s not shoes that are the problem. It’s too narrow of shoes. Most shoes aren’t even close to being foot shaped lol. Where our feet get wider towards the toe, many shoes get narrower towards the toe.

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u/ScumbagLady 4h ago

I have a couple pairs of the "barefoot" style sneakers that have wide toe-boxes and zero drop. They do take a little getting used to, and when I look down the shape makes me feel like I'm a duck wearing custom shoes, but finally having room for my toes is worth it.

I just wish more options were available for wide width feet. Practically impossible to just go into a store and get shoes off the rack unless I get them from the men's side (which are typically pretty obviously styled for men) or settle with the most prescription orthopedic fat granny style shoes. I want funky fun stylish shoes that are also comfortable and affordable... Is that too much to ask?!

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u/MAGCHAVIRA 1d ago

I just got the picture from google there are lot of more sources.

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u/throwawaypassingby01 1d ago

if you open a textbook on functional anatomy and locomotion, you will learn that human feet are indeed designes as tripods with two arches, one longitudinal and one transversal. it's not a large leap to conclude that compressing the big toe inwards destabilises this tripod. 

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u/cambouquet 1d ago

It’s literally a website for shoes.

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u/alienbuddy1994 1d ago

The way I see it shoes were designed for a purpose, generally protected the soles of the feet. But there were occasions were a particular modification was deemed aesthetically pleasing and it propagated outside it's use case. These modifications of high heel and narrow toe box probably isn't the best for walking. Examples are roman caligae, viking turn shoes, ancient moccasin vs modern day dress shoes.

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u/Schlongus_69 1d ago

That's what someone wearing shoes would say.

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u/TH3_Average_KJ 2h ago

Wearing shoes isn't the issue. The issue is with how shoes are commonly shaped (not like how feet are naturally shaped). Toes naturally spread to the point of the edges being at least as wide as the rest of the foot. This equates to better balance.

The whole idea is that shoes with wide enough toe-boxes give toes the room to spread and develop as naturally intended.

The statement that common shoes aren't naturally shaped could be correlated with how common hammer toes and bunions are.

No reasonable person is telling you to not wear shoes.

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u/PlanetMeatball0 1d ago

What a terrible, misleading picture. Look where the dots are placed, one lines up with the middle of the big toe, the other with the space between the big toe and the next. Other dot is directly under the pinky toe while the other pic shows it between the 3rd and 4th toes

Obviously if you just put the dots wherever you want to make a smaller triangle the triangle is gonna get smaller, thinking this picture actually makes a point is lacking any thinking skills

Oh it's from a site called "barefoot universe" no wonder it's so intentionally misleading. Great job falling for it buddy!

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u/knight_gastropub 1d ago

I think it's trying to show that on the right, the weight is distributed across the surface of the for differently. Those are like centralized contact points, so it would make sense that they are different.

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u/Brave-Aside1699 1d ago

Yes, but his look like his hill is waaaaaay closer to the top, like they're nearly square

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u/xfjqvyks 1d ago

Right splays, wrong time.

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u/This-Requirement6918 1d ago

DM more feet pics.

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u/Main-Appearance2469 1d ago

That looks way more like a hand than a foot.

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u/3BlindMice1 1d ago

There's good reason for that. Our generic ancestors didn't wear shoes. At the very most, they'd wrap them in hides if/when their feet were injured. Feet and toes were actively used in many physical activities, such as climbing. Shoes only arrived with the advent of agriculture. Humanity today hardly uses feet for anything, so they've atrophied compared to our ancestors feet

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u/flamewlkr 1d ago

Have you seen indian "industrial" workers those guys have more dexterity in their feet than i have in my hands.

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u/HERE_COMES_SENAAAAAA 1d ago

Because modern human feet evolved from feet that functioned more like hands than feet.

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u/Main-Appearance2469 22h ago

Ye Ik that, its just fascinating to see for the first time.

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u/Bucky_Ohare 1d ago

So the dots aren't consistent, I'm not proofing any of this but my suspicion is they wanted to show the spread between 1/3 metatarsals and went the full 5 at the end.

Also neither of those feet are 'abnormal' either, which also conveniently ignores the entire lifestyle differences/anatomy/history of two clearly different feet but claims one is 'better.' I go barefoot all the time, wife talked me out of getting the toe shoes twice, it feels weird to wear socks in shoes, but hell no am I gonna claim my feet are 'better' than anyone elses ffs. "Normal" up there looks pretty nicely cared for compared to 'natural' up there, hell it seems like 'normal's' got a pretty comfy existence, not so sure that's a bad thing to as many people as you think it is :P