Now THAT is a high heel! Ouch!

(Not sure I like the phrase "stripper slipper" in the title, though. It feels like slut-shaming.)

I'm not really any kind of shoe expert, but the only difference I noticed was the "bow" was gold. I'm also not really a shoe fetishist, so I missed the pornographic aspect, too, I guess... Sorry...

I'm honestly confused... is the reference to porn/stripping because the shoe has a higher heel than it did in the original movie?

But the shoes that strippers wore in the 1950s (when the original Disney Cinderella was released) were not as high as they are now. I don't quite see the connection?

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I wouldn't call it "pornification" but seeing how many women still ruin their health with these things I'm a bit disappointed they choose to market heels as high as these to young girls as a sign of "beauty".

Dunno if it's pornification, but if you check with fashion historians, heels are shorter as you go back in time, generally. Working women wore heels daily and so they were a lot shorter (more practical).

I can see an argument to be made that the shoe aligns with a general trend toward increased sexualization in public social life since the 1950s. The higher the heel, the more the woman (or man's) posture is changed so that the buttocks and chest protrude, and the legs visually seem longer, all of which are sexually attractive to many people. There is certainly an argument to be made that sexualizing the attire of children's characters is not a good idea.

On the other hand, if you showed the two pairs of shoes to a young child today and asked which was better (even a bright, computer generated version of the old pair), he/she would almost certainly pick the newer one. Children have been so exposed to sexualized versions of femininity, that they would almost certainly see the new shoes as "prettier," though they would likely not know why. I take issue personally with Cinderella stories for other reasons as well, but I can also see how Disney would need to be very creative to both avoid doing this and to continue selling movies at their current rate. Certainly, they have the resources to hire the brain power to do it, but by make a multi-million dollar blockbuster when you already have the muli-billion dollar Disney Princess brand?

Alas, sex sells, even to those who don't know what they're looking at.

I don't get it.

The new shoe is clearly more sparkly and has a higher heel, but I don't see how either of those things makes it a "stripper" shoe or indicates that the new Cinderella is "pornified."

Lots of things marketed to little girls are sparkly. Sure, maybe a lot of stripper costumes are sparkly, too, but then, so are were the costumes worn by the male ice skaters at the last Winter Olympics. So the "glittery" part doesn't seem to make it a stripper heel.

Next, go to the women's section of a shoe store and look at the height of the heels. You would actually be hard pressed to find a shoe with a heel as low as Cinderella's original shoe. They exist, and they can be found, but they're almost guaranteed to be very conservative shoes intended for the workplace. If you're looking for a nice shoe for a party--not a slutty f***-me shoe for a club, mind you, just a nice, pretty shoe for a wedding or a formal party or a ball or whatever--you're going to wind up with a shoe with a heel about that height. The new Cinderella shoe might be a little higher than average, but it still has nothing on the ultra-high, ultra-pointy, ultra-strappy, ultra-sexy shoes you would wear when you're going out to a club and trying to look hot. So the height of the heel doesn't seem to make it a "stripper" heel, either.

Reading the comments, it sounds like no one can see what makes the new shoe a "stripper" shoe. I checked the links at the bottom of the post, but they all reference books that discuss pornification in general, but don't shed any light on this case it particular. Perhaps Dr. Wade could provide us with some clarification?

Actually, what I notice is how much bigger the prince's hand is than Cinderella's foot on the left. How does she walk?

I don't think the person who made this even knew how heels works.. I mean the slipper doesn't seem to be designed correctly. Just look at the heel : it should be supporting the end of the foot, that's why it's called a heel, but this one seems to be supporting the arch. Whoever gets to wear this is gonna have a rough time trying to walk naturally.

I think it's just a timely update to go along with the fashion of our era. It isn't overly high or a stiletto.

I think some of you guys are kind of missing why this can be classified as pornification. Yes, there is the increase in height and sparklyness, but I think it has more to do with the cinematography. The camera treats the shoe as more of a sex object than in the original movie. It goes over the curves slowly, it lingers on small, pretty things before showing the object as a whole, and it treats it the same way cinematography often treats sexualized women in cinema and advertising- not as a complete thing, but as a collection of pretty details.

Ouch - the arch on that is insanely high. They make me think of those fetish en pointe shoes.

The trailer reminded me more of a car commercial.

Pornification or commodification? Originally, the shoe was incidental, a symbol sure, but just a piece of an overarching story. By focusing on it, it's tapping into our desire to own pretty shiny things. Marketing marketing! But just cause it's capitalistic doesn't make it pornographic, in my opinion, as someone who does porn. Sex workers wouldn't wear silly shoes like that. Celebrities would (and do, judging from the impractical angle of some designers, yeouch)

I always wondered why a "slipper" would have a heel at all. I don't associate the word slipper with heeled shoes.

WTF? A "stripper shoe"? That's a normal-looking high heel. And this is coming from someone who doesn't wear high heels.

Oh, and good job linking to that sex-worker-phobic, body-policing TERF Gail Dines.

The fact that the slipper is made of GLASS would appear to pose a bigger problem for Cinderella's mobility than the height of its heel.

The first thing I notice is the lack of humans. It's all about the object. Lust after it, it's glittery and shiny, that's what you want. The story used to be about a relationship, now it's about a prize.