Cracked's crypto-feminism continues

[sabotabby]

The 6 (Wrong) Questions Men Love to Ask About Women. The last two particularly made me go "yes yes yes!"

For a site largely about superheroes, boobs, video games, and rampaging animals, they do seem to have a lot of feminist writing.

Comments

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Question 3 resonated with me, but the rest I find alien, probably because I don't know many people and avoid like hell any people who believe in or fit into such social stereotypes.

I don't get the idea that women who wear make up and shit are not doing it to attract men. I mean, I am sure some are not, and that some are trying to look attractive to women or just to anyone, and that some just enjoy dressing up, and some like a particular style or just want to hide spots, but surely under all these apparent reasons lies the fact that women are seen as sexual objects and men not much, and that women are made to feel shit if they do not conform to ideas of female attractiveness?

[sabotabby]

Well, I don't actually wear a lot of makeup, but I'm lucky enough to have relatively clear skin. When I don't wear makeup, very few people comment that I look good. When I do, both men and women tell me that I look good. From this, I conclude that most people find me more attractive when I wear makeup. It's also frequently remarked upon that I don't style my hair and so on.

You're right about the underlying notion, but the people who enforce this notion are quite often women, not men.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I agree that people who enforce it are often women, not men, but I am usually leapt upon for making such claims as it is argued that women cannot help it as they are vitcims of the huge social pressure to conform looks-wise, which is a fair point, but I wish both sexes would just get over it.
Most men I know prefer no make up on females. I think make up should just be for fun and worn by men too if at all.

I have crap skin so I do have covering up make up, but it usually looks worse than crap skin!

Every few months I toy with the idea of wearing make up and then panic because I think I would look and feel silly and also because once one has started it might be hard to stop and I could not afford to buy that much make up. But if I were paler in colouring I might not look silly wearing it. I conform to gender stereotypes in other ways, like removing leg and arm hair as my hair is thick and black, and removing my moustache, although I really am tempted to grow a big twirly one one day to shock people...
I hate the fact that I conform to social stereotypes, and I do feel it is because of what men think more than what women would think.
But I am very insecure about looks as I used to get men making nasty comments at me in the street before I shaved legs and arms!

[curgoth]

FEMINIST HULK SMASH PUNY PATRIARCHY KYRIARCHY INTERSECTIONAL HEGEMONIES!

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

That just about sums it up!

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't wear make up even if it were in vogue for men to do so. I'd be absolute crap at applying it, I know from years of attempting to do nail polish right. Then again I am one of those boys who prefer unmake upped women. If you want to meh, I'll be complimentary and all, but don't do it on my account.

I've beem trying to talk my 6 year old niece out of wearing make up for months now...though that's really 'cause she wears too much.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

six years old. wah!

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I blame Hannah Montanna.