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Y'all are missing the point here.

I hate having to put this on every post I make critiquing makeup culture here, but here we go: if you want to wear makeup, nothing wrong with that.

But do you really want to, or is it just better than the alternative?

From a young age, we’re bombarded with images of women in full faces of perfect makeup. These women, they’re the ones everyone should want to look like. Often, the beauty YouTuber with 10 products on isn’t even considered to be doing a lot of makeup to look especially glamorous or fancy, she just looks “normal.”

We’ve all joked about doing your makeup for an hour to look like you just woke up, but seriously, how weird is that, when you think about it? We consider the sight of a woman’s bare face to be so ghastly, that we encourage them to wear a dozen products to look like she’s wearing none. It’s a “natural” look! Just, you know, without all those ugly parts. Because EVERY woman is fed the idea that she is inherently ugly from day one.

But, okay, you say, but no one is FORCING women to wear makeup. No one is holding a gun to anyone’s head. If you don’t like it, just stop wearing it! It’s a CHOICE!

To that I say… is it?

Is it a choice we can make, free of consequences if we choose not to wear it?

Makeup is considered to be so vital to a woman’s existence, because that is the message we are taught from an early age, that it’s considered lazy to not want to do it. Sloppy. “Makeup is super empowering! Why not just try it? Just do it!” Jobs are less likely to hire women who don’t wear it. People are so unused to a woman’s bare face that they look at one and assume she’s sick or something. And, yes, not wearing it can lead to you becoming a subject of mockery. And if you speak up about how absurdly unfair this whole system is, you get accused of being bitter and ugly.

How can you look at a system that makes women feel insecure as an inherent part of its business model, that makes little girls start wanting to wear makeup at the age of eight (or younger!) so they can “become pretty,” that is built on the message that YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH THE WAY YOU ARE, BUY OUR PRODUCT SO WE CAN FIX YOU, and have so many women believing it… and not think that maybe something is very wrong here?

Society rewards women who conform to a certain standard of feminity, and actively punishes those that don’t. And this gets even worse if you’re trans, fat, or a woman of color.

And now, it’s wrapped up in a feminist package, just like OP said. “Kill the patriarchy with eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man!” “Express yourself with our $60 worth of products!” “Conquer the world with blood red lipstick!” “Our product will make you EMPOWERED. Don’t you want to be EMPOWERED?”

But “empowered” really just means “treated with the absolute bare minimum of decency.” But the feminist rhetoric means calling out all this means you’re shaming other women, that you’re a BAD feminist, not a REAL feminist.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

the prompt was “flag of the crabs that were hunting me down for war crimes” and the hint was “gay pride”

we have dexters entry:

we have teddys entry:

we have the, objectively, far more boring original flag:

i hosted a round. the prompt was “The flag of Guam that I found on a book about Guam.” and the hint was “primary colors, a specific dreamworks protagonist, and a character ive thought about today”

and the results were ASTOUNDING

we have dexters entry: 

we have teddys entry:

and we have the original flag:

There are a number of students in my GCSE class that have behavioural issues and if they feel uncomfortable they can do anything from storm out of the classroom to throwing chairs and punching their tables. They’re great kids, they just dont always see the light at the end of the tunnel and when they are in stressful situations they dont know what to do other than lash out sometimes. They are 10 months away from their final exams and the pressure is being mounted on them in every aspect of their school lives.

Last week one of the students saw me making little origami stars. Its something I do when I’m feeling anxious to help me focus on something else. He asked if I could show him how to make them. He had been clenching his fists all lesson, which I’ve noticed is a tell that he is struggling to retain composure. I gave him a strip of paper and talked it through with him. Soon half of the class were asking me to show them. They all picked it up really quickly.

After about five minutes and about 8 stars later, the student sat back down and was in a much calmer and motivated mood for the rest of the lesson. Our next lesson I placed a box of paper strips on my desk and when I saw anyone getting worked up about their work I silently placed a strip in front of them and let them get on with it. The lesson after I was amazed to see that students would go up to the box of their own accord, pick up a few strips and head back to their desks to continue working after calming down.

the Drake and Millie situation? why is this being allowed to happen. I know it happens all over the world but here - right in the public eye it’s happening and nobody is thinking anything of it??? Or are turning a blind fucking eye??

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