Do you step in dogshit or gum often, then? I'm pretty careful to avoid this stuff in shoes or not, because I dislike both stinking and sticking to everything :P
If you're really concerned about the social stigma, then say that instead of making up dumb reasons. (Though that's a pretty silly reason in and of itself in most places. We can expand the argument to all sorts of things which people are unreasonably prejudiced against, fill-in-the-blanks for yourself, and which one would plainly see as unreasonable to ban. Additionally, there is something to be said for normalizing things like the normal condition of the human foot... and then again, I often do wonder why people spend any time looking at other people's feet. This is why I gave up on socks for a while, because I was tired of explaining that if my socks didn't match, it was because I hadn't done laundry, not because I was starting/following some trend. Why people thought it was any of their business, I *don't* know....)
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If you're really concerned about the social stigma, then say that instead of making up dumb reasons. (Though that's a pretty silly reason in and of itself in most places. We can expand the argument to all sorts of things which people are unreasonably prejudiced against, fill-in-the-blanks for yourself, and which one would plainly see as unreasonable to ban. Additionally, there is something to be said for normalizing things like the normal condition of the human foot... and then again, I often do wonder why people spend any time looking at other people's feet. This is why I gave up on socks for a while, because I was tired of explaining that if my socks didn't match, it was because I hadn't done laundry, not because I was starting/following some trend. Why people thought it was any of their business, I *don't* know....)