Dear Friends of shoeless happiness: Although we do not do any disadvantage to anybody and in our culture feet do not form part of pudendal body parts, contrary to our genitalia, according to what many of yours have related, going barefoot in public is disapproved, discriminated, persecuted and sometimes even forbidden. Without any real reason! Just because we have our own way, different from that of majority! Majority always is right? Once upon time they believed that world is like a disk… Now it’s enough! There is a minority, the homosexuals that make noise allover the world, so that majority knuckle under to them and, especially in Brazil, laws are modified according to their wishes. Although I am a “hetero”, I take off my hat to the gays, such a fuss they make about to stop their discrimination. In this sense we should learn from them: even we barefooters should make more fuss in public about our rights, to stop our discrimination.! * Barefoot Is Elegant: Suit, shirt well ironed, with or without necktie, with or without hat, long well pressed trousers, their legs slightly rolled up, no shoes! The indigenous Kuna tribe, in the San Blas Islands at the Atlantic coast of Panamá, their chiefs go like that: nothing ridiculous, they look just aristocratic! Long robe or elegant shorter dress or a trouser-dress of the choicest, elegfant coiffure, ornaments, but no shoes! Go like this to formal receptions, official events, theater, opera, dancing bars, museum etc. … As there is a risk of being rejected at the entrance, don´t try it alone, but go within a group (everybody barefoot)! Your rejection would cause more disgrace. In the case of rejection: go all to next pizzeria or movies: no fool can spoil our evening fun! Organize elegant official event of your own. As organizer nobody can reject you. * Gourmet Goes Barefoot: Reserve in an elegant restaurant a table by phone call. Now you have juridically a contract. Not a single word about your bare feet! The surprise will be, when you arrive so asking for your reservation.. The bigger your group (all barefoot!), the more difficult to reject you! Days after send the next barefoot group into the same restaurant, especially, if you have been rejected at entrance! Just tactics of attrition! * Rich People Go Barefoot: If you have to buy anything expensive: furniture, expensive household appliances, a car, a house or whatever, try it preferentially in establishments known for their intolerance against barefooters. There you go, well dressed but without shoes! When the watchman or any employee tries to reject you, insist in claiming for the manager or head of the section. When he comes, tell him the buy you want and ask him simply, if he wants to lose it, only because you are barefoot? Frequently, however not always, works. Some days later send the next barefoot customer into the same establishment, with even more reason, if you have been rejected.! * Youth Goes Barefoot: The do not allow your son/daughter enter their school barefoot? When I was young in my mother country Germany, there have been corrupt physicians tha gave medical certificates to free pupils from sports, to avoid that a bad mark in Physical Education might spoil their school report. I think that still today, even in the USA or UK there should exist such a friendly “MD Tricster”. Consult him and claim for a medical certificate that for orthopedic reasons your child is forbidden to use shoes ore any footwear all the time. Complete idiocy, but with signature and seal of a MD! You even might go to court (at least threaten to do so). Recommend this angel/devil MD to parents of other young barefooters! * Barefoot Is Whatever… Look for other themes like those presented here and act. * As all have seen, it is helpful to execute your projects in the form of barefoot groups and not alone. INTERNET is very helpful, not only the Hip-Forum, but also Twitter and Facebook to join more people. Interchange all your experiences: to laugh about human stupidness will make the work of yours all really funny and entertaining. * Any time press will come to make an interview with yours! This is the moment you have struggled for. Open your mouth: - why going barefoot betters your awareness of life, - why it is so important for you, - your rights you are claiming for in front of the rest of society! This is the unbloody and completely non-violent campaign plan of Barefeet Power!:sultan: If any enemy of barefooters behaves especially badly: insults you, turns violent against you, use a handy phone with a digital cam and film it all! Then publish in the INTERNET! Illegal? Don’t worry! Even no-barefooters will feel repulsive such a behaviors and people. Such an establishment owner will not only lose barefooters as customers and finally might stay with none. He might close. This is the more severe pace of Barefeet Power!:devil: Shoes never again! :afro: Greetings, yours truly: Toivo:sunny:
Well, OK, then! I love going barefoot...it's healthy, interesting, and different...sometimes OUR way....sometimes the HIGHWAY.....
wow......understandable, but seriously? Maybe in some other countries, however generally the UK is pretty cool with bare feet. Best of luck with this x
Please do not compare discrimination against gay people with discrimination against barefoot people. Going barefoot is a choise, sexual preference isn't.
I just have this in my head: If three people a day do it, imagine three people a day walking in and singing a bar of Alice's Rastaurant and walking out! And they may think its an organization, and if 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walked in and sang a bar of Alice's Restaurant, friends they may think its a movement, and that's what it is....
