Ancilla
Thankyou for your 3 responses to my thread spanning across 11 hours - this must have been on your mind alot. This thread was no joke!!! (even if some of it was ridiculous). Yes makeup makes me sick, and that's my own issue, but I also think the whole world has been brainwashed into thinking that makeup makes people look good, when in fact it makes them look horrible.
I don't like wearing make up because I can't be bothered to put it on in the morning. But when I do wear it it's not because I have a problem with the way I look, it's to look professional. I love my low maintence look, but my boss doesn't, because it communicates to our clients that I can't be bothered to look professional for work (which is true). So, like it or not, in our society when a woman wants to look professional, in any field, make up is part of it. .
Exactly! Who says that makeup = professional? NOBODY! Well, nobody except for Loreal and Cosmopolitan magazine, and the slaves who have been indoctrinated by them, so basically everyone, except for me.
You're a guy. Why are you talking about make up??? .
Uuuh, what? Firstly, this thread was not just targeted at women or anyone at all. Secondly, why can't I talk about makeup? Do I have to be a wearer of makeup in order to discuss it? It bothers me greatly, and I feel I should speak out against it. Someone has to stand up and say enough is enough, and remove the blindfolds from peoples' eyes, and that person is me.
Another important use for make up: it helps people's features show up under the bright lights of a studio. Which is why men who are on TV wear eyeliner.
lol. That is hardly important. I'm sure the world could do without this vital application of makeup.
It's also important for women who've had cancer treatments or if they have that skin condition that Michael Jackson had. I saw an interview with an Afican American man who had that condition and he's a TV journalist. His face is literally two different colours and if he didn't have make up his viewers would find his appearence two distracting and he'd loose his job.
The world is vain. I don't need to look at a pretty journalist, no-one does. Journalists are there to read the news, not look pretty. People are uncomfortable looking at a guy with a skin condition? Boo hoo, get over it people. Not everyone can look as good as Greta Van Susteren.
First of all, it makes me uncomfortable that a guy would start a thread about make up. I mean, why should it be any of his business if a woman wears make up?
I'm actually kind of uncomfortable that you're uncomortable with me starting a thread about an issue I am passionate about. You've mentioned above that makeup is worn by men too - it isn't the exclusive domain of women. You don't own it. Its like saying that christianity should only be discussed by christians.
Third, its pretty crazy that he'd want something banned just because he doesn't like the way it looks or smells. Like, I have family members who are allergic to perfume. If they smell it, even from a distance, they have a severe allergic reaction. So, should perfume be banned for the good of people like them? Well, no, because people should have the freedom to wear perfume, they should just be aware that if anyone can smell them when more than a foot away from them, they're wearing too much and they could be putting people's health at risk. See, this really reminds me of Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Make up was illegal (as well as a heck of a lot of other stuff) and women had to wear burkas. It was a pretty oppressive for women. I guess we should all be glad that Sharp isn't a dictator.
I admire your passion and zeal for liberty and freedom. I don't share it. Sometimes its good to ban things in the interests of the common good. I'm glad that murder and theft are illegal, because they have more bad consequences than good. Makeup is the same. I still do not see a valid reason for its commercial availability. It makes people focus on their appearance. It makes people vain. It is a means by which people try to make themselves look different from the way that they really are. Its existence gives people a method by which they can conceal aspects of their face which they do not like - and that's crazy. But most of all, it makes me retch. And THAT is why makeup should be banned.
