Choir: getting it out of my system
'Scuse me? I have two questions:
What the hell have you been smoking and did you bring enough for the rest of the class?
No, seriously. It may surprise you to learn that I'm an adult, not only past the age of majority but also possessing previous college experience. Treat me like a grown-up here: explain to me how "the guys are getting haircuts and shaving" is not only comparable to but surpassing the girls' efforts, which include not only having a decent haircut but styling and often curling it as well as shaving their armpits and legs and buying new nylons, buying appropriate makeup and applying it, and wearing a damn dress?
Okay, arson, murder, and jaywalking, I know.
If you think I don't respect your authority, hey, you're right! You try respecting someone who says something that asinine. Until you start treating me like an adult, I won't feel obligated to act like one.
(I will anyway, but it will be an adult who tends to ignore you whenever you say something stupid, which is happening with alarming frequency.)
Now maybe I'll be less tempted to say that in public. I hope. They're not as stupid this year as they were last, which is actually what I'm responding to. It's just building up in my head that they're not only imposing antiquated and draconian restrictions on the women in choir, but also playing to the at least borderline misogynist standards that women's faces (and bodies) are naturally less acceptable than men's.
They might not say it in so many words, but I put it to you: they say the heavy makeup is to make our faces visible under the bright lights/at a distance on stage. Fair enough. Why, then, do the guys only have to use bronzer, while the girls have to use foundation, blush and/or bronzer, heavy eyeshadow, bright lipstick, and heavy mascara? Are our faces just more important? Or are you not actually trying to make our faces more visible, but more visibly made-up?
Until they can explain this discrepancy to me, I'm only going to put in the efforts that I consider appropriate, since their sense of the appropriate appears to be malfunctioning.
(Rejected tags: egotistical egoist of egoism, rebellious feminist is rebellious, conflict for conflict's sake, tl;dr = "go to hell")
What the hell have you been smoking and did you bring enough for the rest of the class?
No, seriously. It may surprise you to learn that I'm an adult, not only past the age of majority but also possessing previous college experience. Treat me like a grown-up here: explain to me how "the guys are getting haircuts and shaving" is not only comparable to but surpassing the girls' efforts, which include not only having a decent haircut but styling and often curling it as well as shaving their armpits and legs and buying new nylons, buying appropriate makeup and applying it, and wearing a damn dress?
Okay, arson, murder, and jaywalking, I know.
If you think I don't respect your authority, hey, you're right! You try respecting someone who says something that asinine. Until you start treating me like an adult, I won't feel obligated to act like one.
(I will anyway, but it will be an adult who tends to ignore you whenever you say something stupid, which is happening with alarming frequency.)
Now maybe I'll be less tempted to say that in public. I hope. They're not as stupid this year as they were last, which is actually what I'm responding to. It's just building up in my head that they're not only imposing antiquated and draconian restrictions on the women in choir, but also playing to the at least borderline misogynist standards that women's faces (and bodies) are naturally less acceptable than men's.
They might not say it in so many words, but I put it to you: they say the heavy makeup is to make our faces visible under the bright lights/at a distance on stage. Fair enough. Why, then, do the guys only have to use bronzer, while the girls have to use foundation, blush and/or bronzer, heavy eyeshadow, bright lipstick, and heavy mascara? Are our faces just more important? Or are you not actually trying to make our faces more visible, but more visibly made-up?
Until they can explain this discrepancy to me, I'm only going to put in the efforts that I consider appropriate, since their sense of the appropriate appears to be malfunctioning.
(Rejected tags: egotistical egoist of egoism, rebellious feminist is rebellious, conflict for conflict's sake, tl;dr = "go to hell")