#not to mention classist bc good makeup is expensive and learning how to apply it takes time and effort that not everyone has

[shamebats]

You can be like "isn't it messed up how grooming standards are exempt from the usual laws protecting people from gender discrimination? Your employer can demand that you wear makeup if you're a woman, they can even specify what kind exactly. The monetary and time investment that comes from societal expectations and workplace policies regarding makeup is an undue burden placed exclusively on women. It's a normalized form of gender discrimination which there is barely any pushback against because we've all been so effectively brainwashed by marketing from a very young age" and I can guarantee you that someone will come crawling though your bedroom window to shout at you about how fun and artistically fulfilling wearing lipstick is for them personally.

it’s been said so many times but it IS genuinely depressing to talk about how cosmetics are predatory and meant to make women more consumable and are pushed. but there always has to be someone saying “well i LIKE wearing makeup and look good in it so actually it’s empowering and if you critique this multi-billion dollar industry and its insidious nature you’re anti-feminist/hate women :/” like. We are not getting out of this alive, i fear