my second toe is longer than my big toe

so i googled it and all sorts of things came up! its a 'disorder' called morton's toe!

http://www.foot.com/info/cond_mortons_toe.jsp

i find this rather amusing.. i have thicker calluses under my second toes. i hate wearing shoes because the second toe on my left foot would always rub and annoy the hell out of me.

anyone else have this?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton's_toe

more info!

 

I did pick up this gem from the Wikipedia link:

"In shoe-wearing cultures it can be problematic: for instance, in causing nail problems from wearing shoes with a profile that doesn't accommodate the longer second toe."

I've got a simple solution - don't wear shoes!

 

exactly!! my left foots second toe rubs on the inside of shoes so much that it aches all the way up to my hip... (guess i already said that)

down with shoes!

 

I've heard it called monkey toe i have found that it give you an advantage when it comes to climbing palm trees

 

I have that situation too. I don't recall having any specific problems from it, but it probably does cause wearing regular shoes to be less comfortable. I'd be willing to bet that a higher than average percentage of barefooters and flip-flop people have this condition.

If you want to be an ass the next time that a chain store tries to throw you out, you can tell them that they are in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) because of your medical condition. Big corporations are scared to death of that law.

 

i've gone to court barefoot thanks to this act.

 

I read somewhere on the internet that having a longer second toe is common among people with high intelligence.

I'll have to agree, having a longer second toe must create discomfort in regards to wearing shoes. A longer second toe must be constantly banging up against the toe box inside the shoe. Ouch!

 

Not necessarily. In my best walking shoes, there is no contact there at all. I'm not sure exactly what the trade-offs are, since I haven't walked with anybody's feet but my own.

 

Well, in the Wikipedia article quoted and referred to by Boogabah, Morton's Toe has become known in art (especially sculpture) as "the Greek foot" and has been idealized in statues for a long time. The statue of liberty's feet are shaped the same way...

However, as being an owner of Greek feet myself, I can easily subscribe to the higher intelligence theory... Us people are intelligent enough to go barefoot!



Wiggling Greek toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

I was reading too fast, and thought for a moment that you wrote "Geek" instead of "Greek". I laughed when I realized that the second paragraph works either way!

 

so wait a minute.. does this mean i've got some greek blood/dna in me?

 

Does that mean higher intelligence is a disability too? If I had a palm tree, I would almost feel like trying to climb it. My toes say I can and my intelligence says I should not. Great, now I have an internal struggle to contend with. This is all Morton's fault!

 

i've always wanted to do that too! but gravity doesn't like me...

 

"Geek Feet"... nice, really. Sounds almost like a new barefooter sub-group. Or followers of Wil Wheaton.
Maybe I should have put a typo deliberately, there.

Hey, Boogabah, congrats on hitting the 18,000 posts score.
I wouldn't do the palm tree thing, either. In my case, gravity likes me too well, therefore pulls me back onto the ground.

Wiggling earthbound toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

It can be. You know the old saying. Ignorance is bliss.

 

Wow. I always thought it was just me, and I never actually bothered to look it up... thanks for the info links.

 

Brigitte Bardot had this "problem", and if you look at pix of her with bare feet you will see that one second toe was hammered at the middle joint, instead of just below the nail as usual. Her second toes are much longer than her big toes. I wonder if that was the reason why she became one of the first recreational barefooters in Western Europe; she was walking around St Tropez in all weathers with bare feet in 1954.

 

I'm a Morton's Toe guy too. I always figured it was pretty normal. Funny to learn it's not!

But I was checking out that foot.com website mentioned in the first post of this thread, and it doesn't really say anything about going barefoot, except for one stupid statement saying something like "going barefoot may result in plantar warts, because the virus enters through a cut on the foot." How asinine to claim the URL "foot.com" and then be so ignorant about going barefoot. I tried checking out their forums to see what people had to say about going barefoot, but the website seems screwed up, and doesn't show any threads.

 

Nah... just that you're intelligent!