Why do millennial women think it's cute to put their bare feet on (public) furniture?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People do this on planes, putting bare feet on the open tray tables and arm rests and it is truly disgusting. I wipe down my area with Clorox wipes.

I'm trying to understand the physics of this. Have you been in an airline seat recently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:example,

How is that even comfortable? So bratty looking.

[Anonymous]

Yoga and flip flops are the reason I tuck my feet underneath or sit crosslegged with no shoes on.

I regularly sit crosslegged in a desk chair because it is so much more comfortable on my back. This is particularly true if my feet don't reach the floor. I do not play with my feet or put them on other peoples furniture.

[Anonymous]

Eww. I am 32 and wouldn't dream of doing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:example,

How is that even comfortable? So bratty looking.

i like that look

nice looking feet!

[Anonymous]

Ugh I saw someone do this at a friend's house. I didn't know the lady who did this, but I sat there shocked that she put her bare foot on my friend's coffee table.

I occasionally put my feet on my own coffee table when I'm alone, but I wouldn't dare do it at someone else's house! To make it worse, we were eating and drinking off the table

[Anonymous]

I would never put my feet up on a table where people could eat. I'm flexible and more comfortable curled up usually. I'm an older millennial. If I'm on a chair or sofa, I almost always have one or both legs curled under me. I always have sat like that. When I was a kid, my dad always laughed at me because he said I'd stand like a flamingo, sort of like the tree pose but with my toes curled under. I don't sit with my feet under me in formal settings, but I will at casual restaurants, theaters, planes, trains, home, public benches. If I can slip my shoe off I'll do that. If I can't, I won't put my foot on the furniture, except public benches.

In a car, if I'm on a long trip, I definitely put my foot/feet on the seat or dash. It's my car, I'll sit how I please. Shoes are coming off for that. I keep a pair of flip flops in the car for driving so I can slip them off and on easily, in case I need to stop for gas while my foot is up.

I get why dirty feet are gross. I get why shoes are gross. I get why shoes on furniture are gross. I get why feet or shoes around food are gross. I don't get why clean bare feet on a chair are gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed this is college -- like in class and at the library, especially -- but it continues into their 20s and 30s.

Why do women think it's okay to ditch their shoes and sit like a pretzel with their bare feet all over a public chair, at work, even as a guest in my home.

It's not cute it is not okay. It's acting like an attention-seeking entitled princess who doesn't think social mores apply to her.

I have nothing against clean feet -- but not on public items and no random houseguest should have the nerve to go barefoot on my furniture.

My girlfriend loves putting her feet up whenever possible but it’s either up on the dashboard while we’re driving or on me, Thank god my girlfriend hates shoes and goes barefoot all the time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I noticed this is college -- like in class and at the library, especially -- but it continues into their 20s and 30s.

Why do women think it's okay to ditch their shoes and sit like a pretzel with their bare feet all over a public chair, at work, even as a guest in my home.

It's not cute it is not okay. It's acting like an attention-seeking entitled princess who doesn't think social mores apply to her.

I have nothing against clean feet -- but not on public items and no random houseguest should have the nerve to go barefoot on my furniture.

My girlfriend loves putting her feet up whenever possible but it’s either up on the dashboard while we’re driving or on me, Thank god my girlfriend hates shoes and goes barefoot all the time!

Putting your feet on the dash is really dangerous. Show her pictures of what happens when people get in accidents while their feet are up.

[Anonymous]

I'm 34 and I put my feet on things all the time, although I almost always have socks on.

Hands are way dirtier than feet. Even mouths are cleaner than hands. I'd freak out more over people touching things than putting feet on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, can somebody please tell me what age group are these Millennials? I've googled and searched and many here claim that parents of Millennials are Baby Boomers. And then that would mean that some 35 year old is a Millennial? I do not see any 30 somethings with feet on the tables, I see a lot of 20 somethings and teens doing this, being disrespectful, lazy, having moms calling their bosses to tell that their kid is overworked. Is this actually happening with 30 somethings and almost 40 year olds? I am Gen X, born in 1970, if I got these things right? I see 18, 19 year olds and people in their 20s being really badly behaved, not 35 year olds. Please, tell me how old are millennials, as I am too dumb to figure it out on my own, and what generation are these 18 to 25 year olds today, in 2017. Many thanks and pardon my stupidity.

I’m 38 and technically a millennial. Which is why I eye roll posts like the OPs, because no, I’m a mother of 2 and a doctor, I’m not some irresponsible college student like these types of posts imply. Millennials are all grown up now. And yes my parents are boomers (born late 40s/ early 50s)

[Anonymous]

Were they raised in a barn?

Seriously, were they raised near the water, like a lake or beach, where people go barefoot a lot? Like Kenny Chesney, sang, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:example,

I feel worse because of her skin condition that blocks part of her face and eyes.

Bare feet are very sensual and sexy! Anybody who is grossed out by someone’s bare feet is the one with the problem. My girlfriend is barefoot pretty much 24 seven and pretty much uses only her bare feet with me to literally do anything and everything with me. She teases me, feeds me, caresses my face etc. people need to be more open minded and not so twisted about “morals” and the “social norm”.

[Anonymous]

Definitely would not put bare feet on someone's coffee table but think tucking them underneath you whether in public or someone else's house is a pretty standard way of sitting. Have not blinked an eye at this myself.

[Anonymous]

Once again, this is not a millennial thing, this is, you have some nasty friends who happen to be millennials. Ask them why they're nasty, or bet yet get new friends?