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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Changing standards of female beauty (Is: the empowerment of women)
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 22:44:17 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1993Jan3.014408.18528@toolz.uucp>
- todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
- > It's sad that fashion dictates that women must hide behind a
- > mask of makeup to be "beautiful."
-
- Yawn.
-
- > The idea that women are
- > attractive only when you cannot see their real selves
-
- Their "real" selves? What, if I may be so bold as to ask,
- is a "real" self? And why is a "real" self obscured by
- a little mascara and lipliner?
-
- > is an
- > idea perpetuated by men because (1) it support a multi-billion
- > dollar cosmetics industry owned mostly by men,
-
- Oh puh-leeze.
-
- > and (2) it is
- > demeaning to women to not be able to be accepted as they really
- > are.
-
- Women somehow aren't really themselves when they put on
- a little powder?
-
- > Thus, men are able to maintain a power structure that
- > obviously favors men and puts-down women; and makes lots of money
- > in the doing!
-
- Snore.
-
- > As long as women continue to smear that ridiculous colored
- > stuff all over their faces, they cannot be taken seriously.
-
- By you, perhaps. I don't have any problems taking women
- seriously whether or not they're wearing makeup.
-
- > Don't even ask me what I think about high-heels!
-
- Let me guess. You don't like them?
-
- > Rember the "bra burning" of the 70's? Maybe it's time to
- > have a "makeup burning" of the 90's.
-
- Well, no, I don't remember the "bra burning" of the '70s.
- Perhaps you'd like to tell us about it.
-
- Arne
-