Fifteen Questions About Some Stuff

[deeplyunhip]

The poll urge was really bad tonight. Thus this is especially long and the questions are especially unrelated. ;)

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

Her precise argument was something like, 'a woman who comes to the office with no makeup and her hair unbrushed will never be taken as seriously as a woman who is polished and nicely made up' (not a direct quote, because I don't feel like going back there and having it make me boggle all over again). And a couple of people stepped in to point out that 1) putting on makeup and brushing hair are NOT equivalent elements of grooming, and 2) um NO.

She was reacting to a comment that she thought was saying that people who wear makeup are not worth knowing (which, OK, also is NO), but she didn't seem to think *she* was saying anything insulting or generalizing, even when women who don't wear makeup to the office popped up to disagree. Anyway.

You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?

Yeah, I would expect any place with a significant Hispanic population to have at least been forced to consider the change... maybe it's the higher concentration of Italians in New York, who want their man Columbus recognized? I don't know...