Look it's been a month or so since I last had an opinion, let me show you it
So faire_weather had this survey about men and makeup, and it made my hind-brain twitch and then this rant popped out.
I don't support anything that could make make-up more mandatory instead of less. (And if you don't think it's mandatory, try getting a job if you're a women without wearing any. Women have been fired for not wearing any). Basically any other opinion I have on this is superseded by the previous opinion. And I don't even get why I'm so viscerally angry about make-up out of, well, anything else. I mean, it could absolutely be awesome and fucking with gender roles/androgyny and all sorts of interesting stuff...but I'm so fucking angry about the expectation that I should be wearing make-up everyday (like bras, fuck, the fight I've had with my mom about that, I'm a god-damn A cup, I barely bounce why I jog. the only fucking thing a bra does for my is make my breasts look bigger and make them look more round, to which I say FUCK THAT NOISE, MY BODY IS NOT MADE LIKE THAT. And honestly, I just really hate make-up. I hate how much money it costs, I hate how much time it costs, I hate how it feels on my face, and how it messes up my glasses and how it gets on everything and how I can't rub my eyes and and and) that I couldn't even look at the survey in fun.
And, I think it's partly because make-up is mostly the one western middle class white female "beauty" ritual I can mostly get by without doing (because I'm youngish and healthy and have access to health care and preventative medical treatment and exercise equipment and can afford shit like healthy food and have the time to make it and eat it), I mean, like, I hate shaving everyday but I started so early I literally can not stand the way hair on my legs feel. I can get to about day three before I'm so uncomfortable that my choices are drug myself or go shave. I hate menstruation (I basically want to give all the inhouse girl parts to science or something, I'm not going to fucking use them), I hate that I can't just get a buzz cut without it impacting my potential employment because as much as I like my curls I really hate the amount of fucking time it consumes everyday and I hate having to have four times as many clothes as men because the lines about what's appropriate for such and such event are so much more ambiguous (and god forbid you wear the same fucking thing more then once), and I hate how everyone agrees that it's easier to be short when you're a girl (like clearly I'll have someone taller around to get the shit on the top shelf for me anyway, why worry?) and I hate how I have to have four times as many shoes as men and...
So what I'm saying is, I find a dude in some mascara and eye makeup hot, but I don't want any of it socially mandatory for anybody. Because, people have uneven skin, and scars and freckles and dark circles and pimples and I wish we were more comfortable with being imperfectly human.
I don't support anything that could make make-up more mandatory instead of less. (And if you don't think it's mandatory, try getting a job if you're a women without wearing any. Women have been fired for not wearing any). Basically any other opinion I have on this is superseded by the previous opinion. And I don't even get why I'm so viscerally angry about make-up out of, well, anything else. I mean, it could absolutely be awesome and fucking with gender roles/androgyny and all sorts of interesting stuff...but I'm so fucking angry about the expectation that I should be wearing make-up everyday (like bras, fuck, the fight I've had with my mom about that, I'm a god-damn A cup, I barely bounce why I jog. the only fucking thing a bra does for my is make my breasts look bigger and make them look more round, to which I say FUCK THAT NOISE, MY BODY IS NOT MADE LIKE THAT. And honestly, I just really hate make-up. I hate how much money it costs, I hate how much time it costs, I hate how it feels on my face, and how it messes up my glasses and how it gets on everything and how I can't rub my eyes and and and) that I couldn't even look at the survey in fun.
And, I think it's partly because make-up is mostly the one western middle class white female "beauty" ritual I can mostly get by without doing (because I'm youngish and healthy and have access to health care and preventative medical treatment and exercise equipment and can afford shit like healthy food and have the time to make it and eat it), I mean, like, I hate shaving everyday but I started so early I literally can not stand the way hair on my legs feel. I can get to about day three before I'm so uncomfortable that my choices are drug myself or go shave. I hate menstruation (I basically want to give all the inhouse girl parts to science or something, I'm not going to fucking use them), I hate that I can't just get a buzz cut without it impacting my potential employment because as much as I like my curls I really hate the amount of fucking time it consumes everyday and I hate having to have four times as many clothes as men because the lines about what's appropriate for such and such event are so much more ambiguous (and god forbid you wear the same fucking thing more then once), and I hate how everyone agrees that it's easier to be short when you're a girl (like clearly I'll have someone taller around to get the shit on the top shelf for me anyway, why worry?) and I hate how I have to have four times as many shoes as men and...
So what I'm saying is, I find a dude in some mascara and eye makeup hot, but I don't want any of it socially mandatory for anybody. Because, people have uneven skin, and scars and freckles and dark circles and pimples and I wish we were more comfortable with being imperfectly human.