You haven’t talked to enough women and 2. you haven’t met what is called “lipstick lesbians”. Lesbians who wear makeup and want to look good, do exist. So as usual, you are making stereotype calls that simply are not true. Not every woman who doesn’t wear makeup is a lesbian either. Just because I run to the store without makeup in my older age doesn’t mean I am a lesbian. I’m not. I’m married to a man and he really doesn’t care if I don’t look my best just to run to the store. I still wear makeup to work, special occasions, and when my husband takes me out, unless my eyes are giving me problems though. You really don’t know what you are talking about @thatoneguy as usual.
How common are those? Those women are so few, they are virtually non-existent. However, there are endless magazine articles talking about why women wear makeup, like this one for example. The proof though is simply right outside everyone’s door…go out in public and see how many women are not wearing any make up.
The fact that it is universal and has been around throughout recorded history means that women have some inborn desire to beautify themselves.
Cosmetics companies often rely on women’s insecurities – inculcated through years of exposure to images of physical perfection in mainstream media – in order to sell products, operating on the basis of “maybe she’s born with it, but probably not, so buy this concealer”. Its function as a means for covering up unwanted flaws or “unsightly” blemishes is hammered into us again and again. Many women spend hundreds of pounds each year on cosmetics, and as many minutes worrying about the way we look. In The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf makes a persuasive case that the beauty industry exists to control a generation of women in the process of emancipation. Keep us anxious, keep us hungry, keep us ever vigilant in our quest for physical perfection, the argument goes, and you keep us down.
As such, the message that your natural beauty is never enough is socialised into us very young
You don’t know what you’re talking about and 2. Name calling isn’t going to change that. 3. if what you say is true, we can turn it around and say similar about men- they all want to look handsome, muscular, and maybe even macho.
Backwards logic. You are claiming that things are what they are due to long term evolutionary processes. Evolution doesn’t work that way. It is not working to a goal, so it moves in random directions. How long has makeup existed? It’s a blip in the species existence. You have to do more work to show the connection.
When you said this, you said evolution has a goal. Just because we are doing something, it doesn’t prove it is instinctual. Being fooled by advertising happens because of instincts.
8000 years of makeup is less than 1/2 of 1 percent of our species time. And we were evolving for millions of years before that.
I agree in respect that evolution does not need a goal to be successful in greater complexity and survivability.
Natural selection is a passive selective mechanism that is only probabilistic in nature.