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From: garret@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Trisha O Tuama)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: Makeup? Why the fuss?
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Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 11:10:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 11:10:46 1984
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Two thoughts on this subject:

  a) make-up is part of a whole contradictory culturization process
     most women go through -- you are too female (and must shave various
     parts of your bodily hair, bathe several times a day, etc.) AND you
     are not female enough (and must artificially enhance your "feminine"
     features through the use of cosmetics, padded bras, etc.)

  b) the cosmetics business makes billions of dollars in profit; the
     sector that traffics in make-up has built an extremely profitable
     product line based in part on exploiting the insecurity and vanity
     of certain women (and men -- Marshall Fields now has a Clinque
     salon in the middle of it's mens store)

Trisha O Tuama