Has Anything Changed?

[South_Atmo]

So, I came across a thread on X and it got me thinking. How are feet people represented in media now? I haven't watched TV in decades outside of the Marvel and DC shows back when they were still good 😆😆. But I'm from a time where if a guy was into feet, they either mentally deranged, or just the butt of the joke for an episode. When I was in my late teens and early 20s, that really used to bother me, but as I got older and more self aware, I could laugh along with it, so long as it was meant to be funny. The thing with me is that the representation of people like myself became less funny and far more eyeroll inducing because it was the same jokes over and over again. Theres the over the top weirdo that is desperately awkward and secretly (sometimes not secretly) smells women's socks or something. There's the guy who's perfect in every way,, from the woman's perspective, but he has a foot fetish. Hilarity ensues, the guy gets dumped or goes to therapy or something to get rid of it. Something along those lines to resolve the issue. There was nothing new or creative or even a serious conversation about it that led to an actual functional relationship. But I was curious, for those that still watch TV, or movies or whichever, has anything changed from... say... 2009? Lol.

I think about the scene from Robocop 2. (That famous scene amongst the lot of us. Lol.) It's quick, subtle enough that some people may not get that Murphy was into feet when he was still human, but it wasn’t like a big deal. It didn't affect how you looked at Murphy or his wife. It wasn't trying trying to sway you one way or another. It wasn't trying to say that something was wrong with Murphy.

 

[FeatherEndeavor]

Unfortunately within the past few years the representations I've seen on TV concerning people with foot fetishes is that they're a psychopath, that weird coworker, and things like that. I don't see too many storylines dealing with foot fetishes but when I do it's usually a character that the audience wouldn't like for some reason. The foot fetish is automatically associated with a bad person insinuating that anyone with a foot fetish is bad.

 

[South_Atmo]

Unfortunately within the past few years the representations I've seen on TV concerning people with foot fetishes is that they're a psychopath, that weird coworker, and things like that. I don't see too many storylines dealing with foot fetishes but when I do it's usually a character that the audience wouldn't like for some reason. The foot fetish is automatically associated with a bad person insinuating that anyone with a foot fetish is bad.

Ah... So that would be a "No". Lol. Oh well... That kind of sucks... you would think with so many people admitting to having one nowadays it would be different.
At least we still have our community. 🙂

 

[FeatherEndeavor]

you would think with so many people admitting to having one nowadays it would be different.

Even though the representations I'm seeing are not good I'm seeing fewer and fewer of those negative representations. So maybe the fact that so many people are admitting to it is slowly changing people's minds about it.

 

[South_Atmo]

Even though the representations I'm seeing are not good I'm seeing fewer and fewer of those negative representations. So maybe the fact that so many people are admitting to it is slowly changing people's minds about it.

Well that's a really good sign.