Our Dear Little Death Culture 2

Today, Gentle Reader, we are going to talk about makeup and cosmetics.  Not how to use them, nor brand selections, but what an absolute bill of goods that women have been sold.  I have seen many women, made up and plain faced.  Give me plain faced, any old day.  They are beautiful. so naturally and plainly beautiful, so shining with the faces they were born to wear. I think I mentioned in a previous post about an esteemed colleague of mine who spent some time in hospital during her mental health recovery.  This is an individual who has always eschewed makeup and simply doesn't care for it.  On her file one of the nurses had indicated that since she was not wanting to wear makeup then she must be getting worse.

What does this say about our culture?  That a woman's preference to not wear makeup is somehow used to denigrate the state of her mental health?  By a mental health professional!  That it is considered normal for a woman to be expected to hate her natural looks.  Yes, it is!  The cosmetics and fashion industries are so clever, so deft and manipulative the way they delude and brainwash little girls beginning with Barbies to hate themselves.  Oh, yes, but Barbie also inspires little girls that they can do and be whatever they want to do and be: astronauts, fashion models, doctors, fashion models, lawyers, fashion models, scientists and fashion models.  The unspoken message is that they have to look as perfect and as beautifully proportioned and made up as Barbie (a real joke, given how absolutely weird this doll's proportions would be if they were applied to a living human being) if anyone is going to seriously consider their cv.

I have long wondered about this incredible pressure that women are under to make themselves as young, attractive and sexually appealing as possible.  And to think of all the adjustments and accessories and virtual self-mutilation involved: makeup, creams and lotions, manicures, foundation garments, hair dye, cosmetic surgery, botox and more, all intended to sell women on the idea that the body and face that God gave them are not good enough and that they have to somehow sell themselves like hookers in order to survive in our contemporary culture of death.

Our Culture of Death is really a culture of self-hatred, a culture based on illusion, a collective loathing of the truth.  Whether it's Islamic fanatics forcing women to wear burkas and niqab or else they're considered whores, or whether it's secular consumer fanatics brainwashing women into tarting up like whores because they're otherwise seen as too ugly, it's the same lunacy.  Fabric burka or cosmetic niqab, they are all saying the same thing: women as they are, are not good enough and men are very much the arbiters of these lies.