TicklishLurker said:
Do you REALLY appreciate all we women do to try and look good?
I ask cause guys never seem to notice.
I'm sitting here right now with some of that "at home chemical peel" stuff on my face to reduce the size of my wrinkles and help clear up the acne and it got me thinking - do men know or care that we do this stuff? Sure, we do it partly to make ourselves feel good, but we also do it for you.
We wax - sometimes extremely tender areas.
We shave.
We pluck.
We dye.
We wear uncomfortable shoes that make us want to cry.
We spend money we don't have on products to burn off the top layer of skin, fry off our hair, on pedicures, manicures - and some of those nail care people are REALLY rough, I've gone away crying. Hot wax dips.
And if we get any praise at all, it's a grunted "Hm, nice" and that's it.
Do you guys like it? Or shall we all just give up?
You know, just once it would be nice after I've spent a great deal of time on makeup, and pre-makeup beauty treatments like the peel, to have a guy come up and say, "I'm not saying this to come on to you, but I appreciate the time you took to try and look pretty, and you succeeded."
Well, maybe not those exact words, but something along those lines sure would make me feel good and make me more likely to do it in the future rather then just shower, shampoo, and pretty much otherwise go out "as is."
One thing you have to know about me is that I am the exception to EVERY rule.
I practise what I preach to the best of my abilities. With that said, I'm going to give my opinion without a hint of incincerity.
I think women who go through such hoops are idiots.
I am, to this day, trying to pinpoint the exact time in history when someone told you all that having short, thin eyelashes makes you ugly. Honestly, when the fuck was the last time you got complimented on the thickness of your eyelashes by any guy you have ever met in your life, ladies?
At my place of work, there are a lot of young women. A few years ago, NONE of them wore makeup to work. Natural as tree bark. Not a single fucking one of them looked bad. As a matter of fact, it definately reinforced my position that makeup is a pointless waste of time. I now want to discover a way to wash it all from the planet...Maybe a flood will do.
I digress...One day, one of the young women came to work dolled up. Makeup, nice clothes, to whole nine yards. Now, mind you, the reason for this is because I think she had a date. Fine, whatever. That's just natural in the dating world. I can't have a say on that, as it would be pretentious and intrusive to preach. That is how it goes. The guy, I am sure, went through equal steps as well, I assume.
HOWEVER...Shortly after that, she began to wear makeup on a regular basis. Then one of her friends at work did as well. then another woman started to. and another. And another...You get the picture. Now they ALL do.
FOR CHRIST SAKE, WHY????
After seeing them in the raw, I really began to question the point of makeup in general.
Look. I can see how makeup and other products are indispensable when social functions are involed. And I can and will freely admit that ALL of nature uses beauty, grace, and other implements to attract a mate(pecocks come to mind). Aside from that, I am finding it less and less important these days.
Now I don't mind perfume or cologne. We just don't like bad smells. We cover up. Fine and okay. At this point, some might call me a hypocrite. Fuck you. At least I'm taking steps to increase a better, judement free world. Which is more than I can say for most people who seem happy in their world of shit. ANYBODY can pull the old "when will we get past such pointless social excercises?" speech out of their asses, but how many of those who ask these questions will actually go through the legwork to start a new trend?
That's why I appear to be a crazed revolutionary. I do my god damnedest to implement my personal credo. Apparently, for some reason, it is not considered sane to do so. From what I gather, you are only supposed to pay lip service to this type of thinking. Not actually implement it. I suppose that makes me a tree hugging hippy that is in need of professional help.
Sorry. Just airing out some issues with jackasses who ask more questions than actually look for answers and then call ME up to task when I find solutions they don't like...AHEM.
I digress again...So, we use perfumes and colognes to cover up the smell. Alrighty and okay. What the
FUCK do you need body spray for? I saw this stuff, for the first time, in the ninties. I didn't understand the point then and I don't now. Why the hell do women need body spray? There has NEVER been a point in history where it was considered socially required to strip and roll in a field of daisies so that cute boys will like you(unless, of course they are watching, I guess). You have no need for body spray. Now they are showing those HORRENDOUSLY sexist ad's for some spray called AXE. I want to ask the guys, at this time(a brief seguay), a question: How many of you are actually stupid enough to buy that shit?
I really hope that there are very few women who feel they need body spray. I know I have come across some women who use it in the professional field. Bankers, lawyers, etc. God, do they stink.
I haven't gotten to the point of decrying shaving as unnatural, as of yet. But, I notice that I have a weird habit of evolving my perception every few years. I figure it is only a matter of time.
Meh. I'm done for now. I don't think I have anything more to say...Yet.
