An Interview With the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to WikiFeet
Back in the fall, I received an unexpected text from a man I had just started seeing. “Are u on wikifeet?”
Assuming he was joking, I laughed and said no. Then he sent me a link to my wikiFeet page. I had never actually heard of the website — basically an encyclopedia of celebrity foot photos for fetishists and foot enthusiasts — until that moment.
To be clear, I am not a celebrity. I have decent Twitter following from having reported on politics for over a decade, from tweeting jokes about politics and appearing on cable news sometimes. But I was pretty shocked to be looking at my own wikiFeet profile, which included my full name, birthday, and photos of me and my exposed feet, dating back to a family vacation in 2013. The images seemed to have been lifted from my Instagram page, which I keep public because I share my work and media appearances there sometimes. My feet had a very sad 3.5 out of 5 stars rating, which categorized them as “okay.”
The discovery was surreal; I wasn’t offended or unnerved, though I can understand why someone would be. I mostly thought it was funny, and posted a video of me wiggling my painted toes in a flattering filter to my story “for my fans,” as a joke. Within minutes, a screenshot of it showed up on wikiFeet.
I don't blame anyone, seems harmless. I just don't understand it.
I wear Birkenstocks and shorts more often than not. Now that I'm over 50, my toes are getting pretty gnarly. My nails are hard as nails. Often I'll get some fashion snob, and the authority of what one should wear and of those who should not wear what, staring down at my toes as we talk. I like throwing at them...
"Hey! HEY! My eyes are up here! Don't objectify me!"
There was a King of the Hill episode (Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet) where Hank's wife winds up being tricked into posing for a foot fetishist's web site.
There's a fetish for everything out there. Feet are nothing compared to some of them. People are messed up.
The sexual impulse is fairly easy to draw astray at certain times of a young person’s life. All it takes is an association being made between sexual relief and a body part or article of clothing, and a lifetime bond is created. This also applies to boys who get molested, although the circumstances matter a lot. A straight up rape won’t turn a boy gay but a slow seduction just might. It’s why gays are so sensitive to restrictions on pedophilia. It’s how they make more gays like themselves.
It’s why gays are so sensitive to restrictions on pedophilia. It’s how they make more gays like themselves.
There should be mandatory life in prison for pedophilia for sure.
The death penalty has the problem that it strongly motivates the pedo to then kill the boy after molesting him. Also, wrong convictions can be overturned, but not with the death penalty.
I don't blame anyone, seems harmless. I just don't understand it.