[mcpackieh]

It's not some sort of footphobia (where does America even come into this? I am American and taking off shoes is the custom in any house that somebody makes a pretense of keeping clean. Do you think we all live in barns?) It's about the judge not having any of trappings of a judicial proceeding, she wasn't wearing a robe and was generally behaving very informally. Taking off her shoes was part of that. Taking off her shoes to protect the floor shouldn't have ever come up because she should never have been in the house in the first place. Since she wasn't acting like a judge, she wasn't entitled to judicial immunity.

[matheusmoreira]

> where does America even come into this?

> I am American and taking off shoes is the custom in any house that somebody makes a pretense of keeping clean.

I've watched way too many movies depicting americans wearing shoes not only inside their home but in bed. Always weirded me out and I always wondered if this was a normal thing.

So... Is it true?

[khazhoux]

> I've watched way too many movies depicting americans wearing shoes not only inside their home but in bed

This indeed is how Hollywood popularly depicted Americans, as wearing shoes to bed, in the bathtub or shower, while swimming, and so on. There's the famous line the the Humphrey Bogart / Katherine Hepburn film "A Time To Stand" where the robbers tell Bogie they're going to clean him out, and he says "you can take anything you want, but you're not getting my shoes!"

There was an episode of This American Life where they delved into Hollywood's preoccupation with people never (ever) taking off their shoes, and one of the things they go into is how Johnston & Murphy (old shoe company) was one of the biggest funders of the original Silver Age studios. It was maybe the first instance of product placement, right up there with cigarettes. Of course Congress eventually got involved in the late 50s and pushed the shoe industry out, paving the way for movies like George Pal's "The Time Machine" which scandalously showed Yvette Mimiuex's bare feet. The French were laughing at us, though, with directors life Truffaut and Godard already showing casual barefootedness in their experimental shorts ("La Pantoufle Perdue" being the best-known and most influential).

[RoyalHenOil]

It is normal for Americans to wear shoes indoors, but it is also normal for Americans to have a no-shoes-indoors policy.

To a large extent, it depends on the local environment. In places that are snowy, muddy, or sandy, people are more likely to expect guests to not wear shoes past the mud room. But in places where shoes stay reasonably clean, people are less likely to ask guests to remove shoes.

I have never heard of anyone wearing shoes in bed. That's super weird. Which movies show that?

[matheusmoreira]

> Which movies show that?

Home Alone (1990) immediately comes to mind.

https://productplacementblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/...

[michaelmrose]

It's perfectly normal in a lot of homes to wear shoes throughout the house but not in bed.

[vips7L]

...is everything you watch on TV true?

[matheusmoreira]

Most aren't but many things are.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevisio...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnreali...