âMake up isnât about men! Itâs for me!â
Make up is how we assure men theyâre the default. Every default setting is reserved for men. Everything default in humans is the boy version of things now. A resting face is male. A smile is female. Textured skin is male. Flawless skin is female. Small, normal eyes are male. Big eyes are female. Colorless lips are male. Colored lips are female. Bushy eyebrows are male. Shaped eyebrows are female. Plain clothing is male. Pants are male. Good quality is male. Cotton is male. Covered up is male. Costumes are female. Skirts are female. Poor quality is female. Polyester is female. Naked is female.
Responsive is male. Quiet is female. Alive is male. Inanimate is female. Active is male. Passive is female. Curious is male. Stupid is female. Wanting is male. Desire-less is female. Self interested is male. Discontented from self is female.
Everything about masculinity can be summed up as âwhat is normal and neutral for all humans.â
Everything about femininity can be summed up as âmarking women as âotherââ
The entire point of gendered differences is to mark men as the default. Their thoughts, feelings, perspectives, health symptoms, needs, perceptions, and priorities are the default. Even when a woman recounts a story a man wasnât present for, his account of it is seen as more reliable. Because he is who we default to. She is âother.â Toilet paper is provided because itâs needed by men. Itâs default. Pads and tampons, just as important, are luxury or personal items. If anything, annoying to have to see because they donât represent the default state. The presence of something female that doesnât please a man is seen as something out of place that needs to be cleaned up and removed to restore life to its default, male state.
Make up isnât about beauty. Itâs about men hating the idea of women being as naturally occurring as they are, and having a right to our own realities. Itâs deeper than looking pretty. Itâs deeper than sex. It isnât about whether your make up is natural looking, either.
When a man says he likes a natural looking woman, he means, âTextured skin and dullness and natural eyebrows are MENâS THING a woman who has those is broken.â
It doesnât matter if youâre a goth or youâre typically feminine. The point is that you donât resemble the men.
In countries where a veil is required for women, does it matter if her hijab is kind of ugly? Is that the point? No. Most women arenât wearing luxury fabrics or brand new hijabs. Theyâre wearing whatever they have. The point is that they are identifiable as female so men can treat them differently and not accidentally like equal humans.
When women arenât required to wear dresses anymore, we start being required to wear make up. We are always required to do SOMETHING. Look at the Elf on a Shelf type dolls where they put lipstick on the girl ones. No matter what, the boy version of things is always the natural, unchanged, normal default. And if they make a girl version itâs that. Thereâs an elf. And thereâs a girl elf. We are a spin off of men. Thatâs how they see us.
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