Talk:Fuck-me shoes

Requested move 14 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) –Chase (talk / contribs) 22:28, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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Fuck-me shoes → Fuck-me boots – The terms is more usually used with "boots" as the final word, as can be seen when doing a seach with Bing or Google. Boot Blues (talk) 12:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. Simple Google search gives 28.7 million hits for shoes vs. 14.8 for boots. And personally have never heard the phrase using boots but always as shoes. older ≠ wiser 18:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
  • Like Mandruss said, the phrase needs to be in quotes. You get 28.7 million hits for shoes and 14.8 for boots, but when you use quotes, you get 115,000 for "fuck me shoes" and 348,000 for "fuck me boots". Melonkelon (talk) 22:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
    • Wel, if you really want to get down to brass tacks and let Google eliminate duplicate entries by going to the last page for each, there are 247 results for "Fuck-me shoes" and 191 results for "Fuck-me boots". And consider Google Books: 5,480 for "Fuck-me shoes" and 529 for "Fuck-me boots" Still no evidence that boots is more common usage. older ≠ wiser 23:54, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - WP:COMMONNAME specifies, "Wikipedia prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in reliable English-language sources)". Usually this means something narrower than a simple Google search, such as a search of Google News Archive. However, that search yields too few hits to be statistically significant (less than 50 each), so I resort to a simple Google search. I don't know exactly how the proposer came up with their results, but I currently get almost 10 million hits for "fuck me shoes" and about 350,000 hits for "fuck me boots". (Note that the phrase needs to be in quotes for the most accurate results, otherwise the hit counts include partial matches like "fuck shoes".) I commend the proposer for doing this request for move rather than just moving it without discussion, which they might have gotten away with on such a minor article. They show a better spirit of collaboration than many editors with fifty times their edit count. Well done. ―Mandruss ☎ 18:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
  • NOTE: "fuck me shoes" is now showing 115,000. I swear it was at over 9.9 million before. I'm at WP:RDC trying to find out how that can happen. ―Mandruss ☎ 21:40, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

	Google Search hit count	Google Books hit count	Google News Archive hit count	Average percent- of-total
"fuck me shoes"	115,000 (25%)	5,480 (91%)	36 (45%)	54%
"fuck me boots"	350,000 (75%)	529 (9%)	44 (55%)	46%

So far, it seems shoes beats boots by a significant margin. Boots has a big lead in Google Search, but that includes every little forum/blog/personal web page in the Webiverse, which is not what we mean by "reliable sources". If anyone wants to suggest other verifiable metrics to be added to the mix, knock yoself out. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Ngram Viewer at Google Books gives some interesting results, also showing "fuck-me shoes" in the lead, and showing that it originated about 15 years before "fuck-me boots". ―Mandruss ☎ 03:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Actually, all of the above has been wasted effort. According to Boot, boots are a type of shoe, in the general sense of the word "shoe", as in footwear. But shoes are not a type of boot. "Fuck-me pumps", another common term that already redirects to this article, are clearly not boots. So "shoe", as the more general term, is the obvious choice for the title as it encompasses everything covered in the article, whereas "boot" does not. The only change needed is in the first sentence, as follows:

Fuck-me shoes, alternatively fuck-me boots, is a derisive slang term ... should be

Fuck-me shoes, fuck-me pumps, and fuck-me boots are derisive slang terms ...

―Mandruss ☎ 04:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose clearly not, since many of them are not boots at all. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:52, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
• Does this sort of footwear have another name that does not contain a 4-letter word? I always knew them as "kinky boots". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm sure it does, since as the first sentence says these are slang terms. The article is as much about the terms as the footwear the terms refer to, so it's impossible to eliminate the 4-letter word. ―Mandruss ☎ 07:18, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

CFM shoes 76.120.162.73 (talk) 20:26, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. The Google Book evidence above is decisive and I've only heard the phrase with shoes before. -- Calidum 20:45, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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Local variation.

In Australia, back in the days when most women wore high heels, they had to be RED ones to be called this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:e448:d401:7939:6060:703e:86e8 (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

German has the concept of the fick mich Frisur, a hairdo with similar connotations. Nearly choked on my beer the first time I heard it, used by a waitress in a bar to describe, somewhat disdainfully, a younger colleague… Mr Larrington (talk) 00:24, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

wrong boots!

as an american raised on mostly 80s (college) slang, i have never once heard "fuck-me shoes". fair enough, maybe it's regional.

and fuck-me boots, aka come-fuck-mes, refer to a particular kind of LOW CUT slutty mini boots. usually made of like velour. none of these thigh-high leather boots with spike heels etc. would qualify. those were sometimes "slut boots" or "hooker boots", but FMBs and CFMs were low things, with pretty minor heels.

i think the proper name may be ankle boots. is no one with me on this interpretation?

btw, we also had "fuck me clogs" -- for one particular style of clog -- but, again, no fuck-me SHOES. 2601:18A:8080:EA60:E01B:FD2A:1BC3:720C (talk) 06:17, 15 July 2024 (UTC)