KuriGohan&Kamehameha
想死不能 - 想活不能
- Nov 23, 2020
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Does anyone else hate the cultural expectation that anyone who is feminine must wear makeup, that makeup is the standard??
To be honest, it makes me even more suicidal. I am allergic to many different cosmetic products and without fail, makeup always makes my eyes water and my breakouts worse. Due to the sensory issues stemming from autism, "beauty" products feel like sandpaper on my skin.
Now, lots of people get upset if you tell them that you think makeup is harmful. Objectively, it is bad for your skin, but I find that the beauty standards perpetuated by its existence and acceptance in society and culture are far more pernicious.
As an art form, I respect makeup. I understand that in films or theatre, it is advantageous for the actors to wear it. However, I hate how it is pretty much a societal obligation to frequently put that goop on your face if you are unlucky enough to be a young woman in the modern world.
Most of the images we see in media are shopped and airbrushed anyways. They aren't real people, they're tampered with and doctored up to make you think that you can look like the digitized humanoids in the pictures. Kids will grow up not knowing what real people look like if all they are exposed to is unrealistic and often grotquesely impossible depictions of the human anatomy.
I very rarely wear makeup because it will make me look like I've had a random cry baby event when it starts running down my face. Still, people act like I am insane for not wearing it or spending loads of money on the junk, and other women especially judge me for it. I am looked down upon all the time for refusing to burn my skin with these products, and I'm sick of it.
Especially, I am sick of the way people twist your words to make it look like you think no one should be allowed to wear makeup, when you say that it shouldn't be a pressured expectation that is shoved on you ever since you were old enough to buy artificial fruit scented buy one get one free pound shop lip gloss.
Yesterday my boyfriend told me that I am a judgemental person for not liking makeup, and that somehow I am hateful towards other women and taking away their agency by calling out unrealistic beauty standards when I see them. He also said that I am insecure and have an inferiority complex due to my appearence, and that it's unflattering.
Why do people seem to conflate not holding people to ridiculous standards with, "we should ban makeup forever no one is allowed it is a satanic lovecraftiain sisyphean plague upon humanity?"
What do you all think about this?
To be honest, it makes me even more suicidal. I am allergic to many different cosmetic products and without fail, makeup always makes my eyes water and my breakouts worse. Due to the sensory issues stemming from autism, "beauty" products feel like sandpaper on my skin.
Now, lots of people get upset if you tell them that you think makeup is harmful. Objectively, it is bad for your skin, but I find that the beauty standards perpetuated by its existence and acceptance in society and culture are far more pernicious.
As an art form, I respect makeup. I understand that in films or theatre, it is advantageous for the actors to wear it. However, I hate how it is pretty much a societal obligation to frequently put that goop on your face if you are unlucky enough to be a young woman in the modern world.
Most of the images we see in media are shopped and airbrushed anyways. They aren't real people, they're tampered with and doctored up to make you think that you can look like the digitized humanoids in the pictures. Kids will grow up not knowing what real people look like if all they are exposed to is unrealistic and often grotquesely impossible depictions of the human anatomy.
I very rarely wear makeup because it will make me look like I've had a random cry baby event when it starts running down my face. Still, people act like I am insane for not wearing it or spending loads of money on the junk, and other women especially judge me for it. I am looked down upon all the time for refusing to burn my skin with these products, and I'm sick of it.
Especially, I am sick of the way people twist your words to make it look like you think no one should be allowed to wear makeup, when you say that it shouldn't be a pressured expectation that is shoved on you ever since you were old enough to buy artificial fruit scented buy one get one free pound shop lip gloss.
Yesterday my boyfriend told me that I am a judgemental person for not liking makeup, and that somehow I am hateful towards other women and taking away their agency by calling out unrealistic beauty standards when I see them. He also said that I am insecure and have an inferiority complex due to my appearence, and that it's unflattering.
Why do people seem to conflate not holding people to ridiculous standards with, "we should ban makeup forever no one is allowed it is a satanic lovecraftiain sisyphean plague upon humanity?"
What do you all think about this?