The purpose of the action was to support an initiative in favor of the fight against violence against women. Some have criticized the interest of this gesture.
They marched in heels and sort of broke their faces. Canadian politicians took a few steps in high-heeled shoes last Thursday in support of an initiative to combat violence against women, but video of the event posted on social media drew heavy criticism.
By doing so, the policies aimed to support the “Hope in high heels” event, initiated by the Halton Women’s Place association, which fights against violence against women.
Through this event, she intends to integrate men into this fight by symbolically making them wear heels during a march to be held this year in September in Canada.
“We wore their iconic pink heels today in support of this important cause,” Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra tweeted.
“Their ego is fragile”
This video viewed hundreds of thousands of times around the world has come up against many criticisms from men. In response, the Canadian minister denounced “their fragile ego”.
“An organization that fights violence against women has been coming to Parliament for years asking MPs to help them promote their work. Yet a group of men in distrust speak out when they see men wear high heels, which shows how fragile their ego is,” he commented on Twitter.
“They have other means of combating violence”
Some of the target of the video also wondered about the usefulness of the sequence, like Stéphanie Lamy, a feminist activist and co-founder of the collective Abandon de Famille-Tolerance zero.
“It’s really a very symbolic action, and which does not really fight against violence against women, whether we do it with public figures or with anonymous people, why not, but here we are talking about elected officials, and they have other means of combating violence against women, for example by legislating or by putting budgets on the table,” she said on BFMTV.
According to the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, 184 women were killed in 2022 in Canada, which is a 20% increase from 2019.
