Wedge sneakers
There are things which embody all evil in today's modern western society. To this day no-one, though we were at times acutely aware of their ominous presence, had seen, heard or actually felt what these things might be.
Now we know.
Wedge sneakers.
It is my personal belief that they were dropped on earth in an inconspicuous package, by organisms from another planet, galaxy or universe - depending on how persistent they are in wanting to conquer a lump of magma as insignificant as this one. Yes they did, they wrapped the first ever pair of wedge sneakers in an ordinary shoe box and dropped them on some street corner, not too busy, but sure to attract a steady flow of the right kind of girl/ woman who would see a shoe box and wonder what's inside. Meaning any girl or woman. And so it came to be that the first pair of wedge sneakers was worn by the first woman ever who wore wedge sneakers. And, humans being the herdish lot that we are, very soon other women were struck by the oddness of these wedge sneakers. Not by their beauty, for these shoe-like deformities are ugly as hell. Too many straps, a strange tapered shape that makes your foot look like it's been shortened by a couple of inches with a blunt tool, and then a narrow, high wedge stuck underneath the foot bed, which makes women - perfectly good-looking, elegant women - prance around like rheumatic emus.
'I have got to have those'. It is a thought we women usually get when seeing another woman who has something, anything, that we haven't seen before and which seems at the time like it might be a fashion statement. Often followed later on by remorse, guilt (over the price), shame (over making a fool of yourself hobbling about like a lame giraffe).
Wedge sneakers were brought here by aliens as the first step in their program to conquer us: step 1: first eliminate the stronger sex by making sure they can't walk properly.
I for one will serve my race and my planet by making sure I can walk properly - run even, if I have to. For this purpose I will vow to never, never, NEVER wear wedge sneakers. Go ahead, fashionistas, I will not judge you. But someone has to stay vigilant.