Purchasing and using make up is damaging to women (while still considered a “proffesional” requirement for many places of work).
Ways it is damaging:
Mentally
Individually: not healthy to cover up your own face and contour it into something else. Many women cannot go out without a full face of make up. That isn’t healthy.
Societally: setting a terrible example for other women and girls. If all they see are other heavily made-up women then they will continue the cycle of covering up their faces too.
Physically
Clogging your pours with gunk isn’t good. Your skin is your largest organ. It needs to breathe.
Can’t cry without ruining make up.
Can’t swim without ruining make up.
Can’t eat without ruining make up.
Can’t lay your head on a pillow without ruining make up.
Highly restrictive.
Unhygienic in general.
Financially
Waste of money that could be spent on literally anything else. Hobbies, learning new skills, yummy food ect.
Make up is crazy expensive, and all major companies are owned by men.
They manufactured a problem (the bare female face) to sell a “solution” (their overpriced products).
Buying makeup is voting with your wallet, and telling those executives that exploiting women’s insecurities is a lucrative venture.
Environmentally
Lots of the materials used aren’t sustainable and/or can’t be recycled. Packaging too.
Ethically
Lots of make up is made by underpaid workers, many of whom are women. Not just sweatshops, but having to risk their lives and health to go into mines to make your sparkly eye shadow.
Time-wise
Women are getting up hours before they need to to paint on their faces. Plus all the time spent learning to do whatever contouring and other bullshit is on trend.
Could be spent sleeping in. Spending more time with friends/family. On fulfilling hobbies or new enriching skills.
I depict women wearing makeup only to signal they are obedient to femininity practises. It’s rarer that IRL to normalise the natural, bare female face. Same with shaving. Same with the use of misogynistic slurs.
When it shows up in-comic, it is conforming women who stand out like sore thumbs and look strange, not women who are natural and unaltered.
Don’t have as strong a feeling about hair dye. I’ve had my hair plenty of stupid colours for a bit of fun. That said, look at the marketing. Like “anti aging” creams and serums, it’s not men being sold hair dye. It’s not men being convinced they need to hide grey hairs. When men age they’re “silver foxes”, when women age we are “old hags”.
Suffice to say, go wash the gunk off ya face, ladies. Chuck out your razors and hair removal bs too.
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RUSTY! WHY WAS I NOT MADE AWARE OF THIS PAGE EARLIER?? THE RED SQUARES ARE DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE!
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Theh8ar
Just curious, Do you have some sort of problem with hair dye and make-up?
rustyhearts
Yeah a feminist + moral objection.
Purchasing and using make up is damaging to women (while still considered a “proffesional” requirement for many places of work).
Ways it is damaging:
Mentally
Individually: not healthy to cover up your own face and contour it into something else. Many women cannot go out without a full face of make up. That isn’t healthy.
Societally: setting a terrible example for other women and girls. If all they see are other heavily made-up women then they will continue the cycle of covering up their faces too.
Physically
Clogging your pours with gunk isn’t good. Your skin is your largest organ. It needs to breathe.
Can’t cry without ruining make up.
Can’t swim without ruining make up.
Can’t eat without ruining make up.
Can’t lay your head on a pillow without ruining make up.
Highly restrictive.
Unhygienic in general.
Financially
Waste of money that could be spent on literally anything else. Hobbies, learning new skills, yummy food ect.
Make up is crazy expensive, and all major companies are owned by men.
They manufactured a problem (the bare female face) to sell a “solution” (their overpriced products).
Buying makeup is voting with your wallet, and telling those executives that exploiting women’s insecurities is a lucrative venture.
Environmentally
Lots of the materials used aren’t sustainable and/or can’t be recycled. Packaging too.
Ethically
Lots of make up is made by underpaid workers, many of whom are women. Not just sweatshops, but having to risk their lives and health to go into mines to make your sparkly eye shadow.
Time-wise
Women are getting up hours before they need to to paint on their faces. Plus all the time spent learning to do whatever contouring and other bullshit is on trend.
Could be spent sleeping in. Spending more time with friends/family. On fulfilling hobbies or new enriching skills.
I depict women wearing makeup only to signal they are obedient to femininity practises. It’s rarer that IRL to normalise the natural, bare female face. Same with shaving. Same with the use of misogynistic slurs.
When it shows up in-comic, it is conforming women who stand out like sore thumbs and look strange, not women who are natural and unaltered.
Don’t have as strong a feeling about hair dye. I’ve had my hair plenty of stupid colours for a bit of fun. That said, look at the marketing. Like “anti aging” creams and serums, it’s not men being sold hair dye. It’s not men being convinced they need to hide grey hairs. When men age they’re “silver foxes”, when women age we are “old hags”.
Suffice to say, go wash the gunk off ya face, ladies. Chuck out your razors and hair removal bs too.
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