Wearing make up is sign that just maybe you are not dealing with a radical feminist.
Posted on 03/05/2019 5:29:36 AM PST by mkleesma
“Can I put some of your blush on?” my six-year-old daughter Penny asks, expertly climbing onto the bathroom counter and sliding next to me.
“Sure,” I answer, focusing on a steady hand as I not-so-expertly apply eyeliner to my top eyelid.
We sit in companionable silence while I apply a subtle amount of makeup for my night out with some girlfriends, and she cakes on the blush until it achieves the exact effect she’s looking for.
A few years ago, my kids started to take an interest in my makeup, a very small collection of tubes and compacts that I apply rarely. My two oldest, now almost seven and five, would line up each item and ask me to explain what each thing was used for. I don’t know why I was shocked by their interest — of course these mystical and adult-seeming contraptions would delight my children. At the time, I felt conflicting emotions and wondered if painting my face while raising my children to be feminists was a contradiction.
She works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is as bleeding-heart-leftist as PBS ... so it’s not really surprising
...who is raising lipstick lesbians.
For a large part of the population, it is a reflexive and instantaneous statement: “I support feminism” which is sometimes followed by some sort of “ ... but ...”.
I think Feminism is evil.
Women are fine. Women can hold any job, run companies, whatever. But they need to win the slots by merit, just like a man.
Feminism is a bad political philosophy which is less about supporting women and more about tearing down the values of western civilization. Look at Sarah Palin — on the one hand, she claimed she was a feminist. But the feminists hated her. She was a mayor, a governor, a business owner, a media personality, an author and a vice presidential candidate. Did the feminists support her as a remarkably successful woman? Hell no — they despised her for her support for western values.
I am not a feminist and I am reluctant to support anyone who speaks well of it.
Actually, I am amazed that (1) the liberal writer is actually a female, (2) the liberal writer has children who survived into birth, and (3) the few children who survived her womb who are putting on makeup are themselves female.
Feminism as defined by the modern left is insanity.... Period.
Hopefully the children will turn out normal in spite of their mother.
You put on makeup but you don’t shave your armpits.
Women don’t dress up to impress men. They dress up to impress women.
I suspect she’d be fine if she had little boys that wanted to wear makeup. God blessed her with little girls instead.
The look like a lady of the night but still a feminist posture of the left is a couple decades old now.
The only way she’d have currency with this would be if it were her little boys so indulged.
If one didn’t know what it stood for and heart the word feminism for the first time, one would think it was a good thing.
I like my women feminine. It sounds almost old fashioned and sexy in a good way.
Boy would that person be shocked to find out what it really means.
Don’t kid yourself, they do both. But in our age of narcissism, with the ubiquitous, digitally enhanced selfie, you do it to please and reassure yourself.
Pray for our culture.
I fully expected to read that her sons were putting on makeup and being raised as feminist.
Can a 100 pound female "fireperson" carry yo out of a burning building? A grown female has the strength and athletic ability of a 14 yer old boy.
Wearing make up is sign that just maybe you are not dealing with a radical feminist.
Agreed. But I would not support any rule that says “Women are not allowed to be firefighters”. In my opinion, women can certainly be firefighters — as soon as she can demonstrate her ability to carry me out of a burning building. That’s where the “win the slot by merit” part comes in.
I think Feminism is evil.
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You’re confusing philosophical/ideal feminism with the political/social feminism that has the loudest megaphone and the most power and influence.
But that’s nothing new. You can look into any area where a genuinely positive ideology gets co opted by activists and the power-hungry... from civil rights all the way to award granting organizations. They lose their true goal when the puppet master who they was going to give them legs dangles them on other strings of political goals.
Real feminism is about all the good qualities of women. Political feminism is about advancing leftist social goals and attacking anyone who doesn’t.
Is she putting make up on her sons.
Or did she abort them?
K..I have to confess to only reading the head line.
And original statement may be out of line.
It may be out of line no matter.
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