I very much suspect the whole 'walking like a girl' thing is evolutionary, a compromise between the need to be able to stand upright effectively (trending to narrower hips) while not over-compromising the width of your birth canal (trending to wider hips).
Just thinking aloud here.
(28 Apr 2022, 00:35 )Culmor Wrote: [ -> ]I very much suspect the whole 'walking like a girl' thing is evolutionary
That's one of the questions I have.
"Carrying angle" is also explained by the width of hips. However, have you seen police women (with fully equipped belts, that widen the hips significantly) who carry their arms exactly like "men" without tucking their elbows in?
Also, men with relatively wide hips do not keep their knees together.
Can it be the angle of the hip-joints?
I am not sure that bimbo walk cycle is quite normal though. Even for women it seems exceedingly jostly, like the whole purpose is just to basically keep twisting yourself around, not particularly comfortable for normal people but it makes sense for strippers and catwalk people.
Most girls I know tend to just walk like normal people and the only exception I know comes from people on stilts, heavy boots, armor or really high heels as they tend to be more exaggerated to deal with weird center masses. Ie wearing heels likely causes your center mass to drift forwards, causing people to arch back a bit to compensate. Wearing a lead apron, heavy boots or carrying a large backpack causes really aggressive moves to adjust for the added weight. Stilts just magnify your existing moves and cause a very high center of mass requiring many large adjustments.
Yesterday I spent 2 hours on the phone. All this time I was walking back and forth in a corridor in 3" wedges + 1" platform. Though 3" does not sound impressive (size EU39), I walked ~3km. That's my longest prancing in high heels!
While the shoes are extremely comfortable (will post photos later) - nowadays I wear them as my usual overday "slippers", I must say, I was close to cramps and next day (today that is) some muscles do hurt! 😂 (I usually switched to 4" in the evening 😋 )