It's not discrimination. There's just no market for it. Western economic models are designed to chase a dollar and abandon ideas that don't sell. So if more people were interested, then the boots would be available.
Don't count on it. The world experienced drastic change with the boomers, and they did move the needle a little, then they grew up and pulled back, but then gen x picked up where they left off, then they got older and pulled back, then the millenials (my generation) were to save the day, now the oldest among us are rounding 40 and starting to settle down into our own version of conservatism (which would have been VERY liberal by the 1950's standards. Now we have gen z, and they're going to usher in an era of enlightenment?steamman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:10 pm I think with generation z coming along we will see rapid change within a few years. I look forward to the day when I can walk into any clothes shop and there will only be clothes, not men’s and women’s. For footwear it is more problematic, but there is no reason why styles can’t be extended to larger sizes.
The jury is still out on that. I've not been impressed so far. Progress is being made, but it's VERY slow and requires a lot of blood sacrifices (literally). I'd say ever since the New World was settled, or maybe even going back to the Protestant Reformation (or to put it better- the coming of the age of print and literacy) the civilizations of the world have made two steps forward and one step back. We've been in this dance for centuries. Two steps forward and one step back.
I personally believe we may be in a "one step back" period right now. Gen Z is coming of age during the cusp of another wave of fascism we haven't seen in almost a century. I predict dark times ahead, and many gains over the last few years will be lost... but not forever. In my opinion, and based on some of the footage I've seen and stories I've heard, the boomers were a lot more "liberal" than gen z. It will take several generations to overcome the religious fanaticism (Christian Taliban) that is slowly gripping western Republican Democracy. Many lives and freedoms will be lost in the process. They must be lost, for only in loss can we truly understand what we had, and thus we begin "two steps forward" all over again.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
But no, don't count on gen z to save the day, they're still the same old vice ridden, greedy, self centered, asshole bunch that their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc were.... in a simple phrase: they're human, with all human faults, folly, vanity and vice in tact. And since the dawn of time, humans only grow when they are injured. This is not me being cynical (though you may disagree)... this is be being a realist.