slayerangels:

radfemeudaimonia:

slayerangels:

porcupine-girl:

soyeahso:

quinzelade:

listener-blue:

antifeminist-nature-blog:

eee-in:

radfemeudaimonia:

when I hear “shaving is a choice!!” or “make up is a choice!!” I feel like the subtext is “the choice you should be making!!”

no it means “it’s a choice that you and you alone make so stop whining about it and if you don’t like doing it then don’t”

my god solve your own fucking problems it’s not hard 

^One of the things we can agree about.
Seriously. I say that makeup is a choice pretty much anytime it comes up in argument. I choose not to wear makeup.
Fuck, I went to a wedding last month and I didn’t wear makeup. Nobody judged me.
I went to several job interviews this spring and I didn’t wear makeup. I don’t wear makeup at my retail job and I have no intentions of wearing makeup at my co-op job at the hospital.

Seriously grow up.

Exactly.

I also choose not to wear makeup. I have never worn makeup. Not even once. I have never felt judged for it. At the ripe old age of almost 40 I have made my way through school, through university and through 18 or so years in full time employment without wearing makeup. I have worked in catering, it hotel front of house, in retail.. I have never worn makeup in any of these positions. And now in my job as a dispensing optician, in which part of the job is helping people to be happy with their choice of new spectacles and therefore appearance/fashion is often an important factor, I do not wear makeup. I have been to a multitude of social events over the years, both casual and formal, and I have never worn makeup to any of them. I have never felt that my choice to not wear makeup has held me back in any part of my life. I have never felt that I was not accepted into social groups or any working environments because of the fact that I do not wear makeup.

Makeup is a choice. It is the choice of every individual whether to wear it or not. There is no subtext. Make up is a choice. Full stop. And the same goes for shaving.

and im over here plastered in it

:DDDD

I don’t wear makeup regularly but I also have very few blemishes and an even skin tone. I don’t shave my legs regularly, but the hair on my legs doesn’t grow in very thick.

I cannot say whether I would actually feel like the choice to eschew either of those things would really be available to me were it not for those particular circumstances.

Don’t dismiss and ignore the societal pressure placed on others based on your own set of unique circumstances. Damn.

It’s great that you’ve never felt like people were judging you for not wearing makeup (not soyeahso, the self-righteous people above). But just because you don’t feel like people are judging you doesn’t mean they’re not. 

Research has shown time and time again that women who wear makeup and otherwise conform to beauty standards are taken more seriously and are more likely to be hired and promoted. Have you ever, in your entire life, not gotten a job you interviewed for? You have no idea why you didn’t get it. Even if they told you some other person had this or that qualification, the person interviewing you might not even be aware of their own internal biases. They might have just had a general impression of you as being “less professional” and not really known why.

And even if you can somehow guarantee this has never happened to you, the fact remains that it happens to other women all the time. Congratulations, you happen to have picked the right industry and the right employers, not everyone is that lucky!

Yes, makeup is a choice. Shaving your legs is a choice. Etc etc etc. But it’s not a choice made in a vacuum. And pretending like it is isn’t “empowering” – it’s demeaning. You’re demeaning all the women who are pressured every day to conform to beauty standards for one reason or another, telling them it’s all in their head when the research shows that you are wrong.

i’ve never worn makeup.  my Mom has never worn makeup. My Mom’s women friends who I grew up around never wore makeup.  My sisters never wear makeup.  Some of my friends did and some didn’t.  Maybe some women feel like it’s some kind of big deal? I don’t know.  I never felt pressured to wear it. I never felt weird.  I just did my own thing and others do theirs.  I kinda feel like those studies are probably bullshit.  How do you make a controlled study over whether a person wearing makeup gets them a job or not in the real world? lol. I’m pretty sure a woman not wearing makeup can be prettier and “conform to beauty standards” more than I could while wearing it lmao. But if some women feel like it’s some kind of life altering shit to wear makeup or not, I think they might care too much about what other people think.  Society is never gonna be fair, that’s just something you have to deal with.  Everyone has to.  Grow up and deal with your own problems is good advice, especially over something as trivial as makeup.  

And the OP is saying “choice is subtext for you should choose it”.  What? lol

ok so why when you go to the supermarket and there’s a make up aisle it’s clearly for women to spend money on and not men

because it’s usually women who wear makeup and who want to wear it? so that’s how marketing works. but some men wear it and they can go into the aisle and buy it if they want to.  there’s no law about it.  you know that right?