All of this is simply to fit in with you, to be as unobtrusive as possible so that we can be recognized for our work,
I still don’t see how makeup fits into this. How does that help a woman fit into a man’s world? And I agree it’s terribly wasteful to spend so much money on it, especially when there’re probably huge markups on it (much like clothing, though I guess in that case if workers were paid decent wages, they gap might close considerably).
I don’t think women should have to or should believe they have to wear heels or makeup, speak deferentially or self-deprecatingly etc in order to achieve their goals. Men acknowledging this extra effort to ‘fit in’ is nowhere near enough to resolve. Should we work in VR? Wear blindfolds? Sad commentary that in women-filled workplaces like vogue, cosmo, women apply these pressures on one another, with few men in sight. Kind of hard to blame men for this case at least, right?
