Yeah but can you wiggle your little toes independently?!
My mom has longer second toes, and she always said “It’s a sign you’re descended from royalty.” She also said stuff like “An ancestor ran away with an Indian princess” and “We’re descended from Sir Francis Drake” so my mom, though I love her, does not have a fully-functioning bullshit sensor.
Dunno, kinda sounds like shes bullshitting you
The toe thing was definitely a little tongue-in-cheek, but the other two she seemed to fully believe. When I pointed out that Drake didn’t have any children, or at least not legitimized, she acted confused and said it was something that the family had always said. Well… someone was bullshitting someone!
is it not supposed to be??
Without looking into the actual stats, it's so incredibly common it's normal. There are pedantic pros and cons to both; it's trivial. But more people have a second toe shorter than the first.
Pedantic, haha.
Feet causing you problems?
Pedantics.
Gotta call a toe truck
It just makes a lot of shoes and socks uncomfortable and it’s bad for your back
From what I’ve been seeing I think a lot of shoes are just uncomfortable as-is. My longer big toe gets pushed around by the side of a slimmer shoe and shoes in generally aren’t quite wide enough around the toes for most people’s feet.
Shoes are fucking horrible. There is no reason we should be shaping our feet to match our shoes. It's like a way less extreme version of Chinese foot binding, but it's so common it's insane. Bunions and foot pain aren't normal, they're normalized. Wide toe boxes! We need wide toe boxes!
Thank you for attending my Toe Talk
I have duck feet, and always assumed 'wide' shoes were just how a well fitting shoe was supposed to feel.
Then I bought a cheap pair of barefoot style shoes, which often have ridiculously large toeboxes that some people avoid just due to how they look.
It was nirvana; finally, a shoe that truly fit! I can never go back now.
Also @Soup@lemmy.world, you might wanna try some if you haven't!
Link to the shoes?
I started with these. Unfortunately only available on amazon, but they were an affordable way to try them, and they've been surprisingly durable!
Once I confirmed that I loved the barefoot style, I eventually invested in some vivobarefoot boots as well, and those have been fantastic. (If you go that route someday, look for them on eBay and wait for a deal).
Okay, cool! I thought you meant those toe shoes at first. What makes them "barefoot" shoes? Is it just the wide toe box?
For me, I actually go up a full shoe size when I stand vs when sitting. I got my feet sized all through childhood and my 20s and always had horrible pain in shoes, and ended up learning this when I went to a podiatrist. My feet squish out like playdoh when I stand up. Lol. I've been treating my podiatrist shoes with kid gloves for years now because I lost the food insurance lol
Toe shoes would qualify as barefoot too, but I they're just a more extreme version I think.
Barefoot shoes usually have 3 traits:
This video does a good job of explaining why those other two traits are desirable.
Wait, it's bad for your back? Why?
My lower back problems started pretty young. Never would have thought my stupid long long toes would be related.
It effects your posture, gait, and weight distribution which all effect the pressure and strain on your spine
it's an anatomical variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_toe
The Culture section of that article is a wild ride. Like phrenology for feet.
Hello fellow person who can’t wear Birkenstocks
I was always told people with a long second toe have dominant personalities
I'm a half and half. Left foot has a shorter second toe, right foot has a longer one.
We're gonna need you to pick a side.
My own personal no-evidence theory is that if the person has particularly long fingers, their second toe will be longer than their first.
I comply with this theory.
Hello fellow Mo-Toe-er
My mortons toes are quite long. My fingers are really normal.
mine are the exact same length. never broken a toe.
Can confirm there's a relation.
I'm one of those. It sucks. I keep breaking them.
Never broken a toe, but both my long 2nd toes are curled. I have size 13s as an adult, and I remember outgrowing shoes frequently but still wearing them past when I should have because I hated shoe shopping. I think I basically bound m y feet out of laziness.
I used to think the same thing about my toes, even down thinking I did it myself ...
Then I had kids who have my weird curled toes too, and I know damned well Ive never let them wear shoes that are too small. Theyre just built that way.
Really? My mortons toe is a good amount longer than my big toe, but neither foots has ever been hurt. Also, my toes are very controllable and I can pick up all sorts of stuff. They're sweet.
I've only ever broken one bone... And it was the tip of my second toe on my right foot.
All I'm hearing is that you guys have inferior skeletal systems which is completely unrelated to the toe length
Your big toe is the protector. Have you never stubbed your toe? Now imagine that the little one is the one that gets hit instead. Snap.
That's like saying your eldest kid is the protector. No, you are the responsible adult, it's your job to take care of those little piglets. Protect and take care of your toes like they're the five pairs of identical twin kids of your feet.
If your toes have special needs, there's always steel tipped shoes. 👷👍
I stub my toes constantly. I also have a longer second toe than big toe. Still have never broken a bone in my feet or anywhere else, for that matter.
I simply choose not to stick my toes.
Or that they do kickass stunts that just happen to rely on their extra long 2nd toes.
What? It’s not like, everyone? Huh. TIL.
One of mine is a mallet toe. I need to get that fixed sometime.
It would be pretty neat to be able to flip someone off with your hands and feet.
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