supergee | Makeup

Our culture is full of men who are as insistent about women covering their faces with paint as the Wahhabis are about women covering their faces with cloth. Now other men (and, I am sure, some of the same ones) are saying that makeup is a form of fraud equivalent to men lying to get sex.

bart_calendar has some sensible remarks. I also agree with

firecat: "The notion of having to put on a clown face every day to come across as properly female is scary."