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⌈ Secret Post #2137 ⌋

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Except I don't think it's an okay response to say "it's a shitty, misogynistic system that disadvantages all women and puts pressure on them to act/look/be a certain way SO I WILL HATE THE (still disadvantaged) WOMEN WHO CHOOSE TO WEAR MAKEUP AND WHO MAY HAPPEN TO BE NATURALLY ATTRACTIVE. FUCK THEM." Be angry at the system, fine. But why on earth would you be angry just because someone else made a different choice in response to the shitty system?

Some people (including me) genuinely enjoy makeup, and feel good about putting time into their appearances. There is nothing wrong with this. Period. End of story. I am not choosing to shame another woman when I put on mascara in the morning, I am choosing to do something that I enjoy.

At the end of the day, yeah, all of our behaviors are conditioned by cultural ideologies, and that is unavoidable, but thinking about causality on that level is ultimately pointless.

I do not shame other women for not wearing makeup. I do not claim that makeup is crucial to women's existence. You do not have the right to hate me for making the choice to wear makeup.

Also, there are plenty of other skills we are pressured into learning and using, even if we are not naturally inclined towards them, and though I wouldn't pretend that they're the same (because they aren't backed by the system of misogyny in the same way), it's silly to pretend there are no comparable skills.

Also lastly (at the end of this tl;dr), I honestly don't think it's wrong that there are jobs that ask their employees to be "put together" visually. This doesn't mean being stunning, or even wearing makeup, but putting some effort into your appearance, if you will be a public face of a company. So what on earth is wrong with the fact that my putting myself together well for an interview for such a job gives me a leg up?