Ladies, watch out! Men’s Rights Redditor warspite88 is on to you! Your painted faces don’t fool him! Your concealer cannot conceal the truth! He knows your lips aren’t really that red! He knows your eyelids aren’t really that blue!
Yes, that’s right: it’s time for another angry MRA rant explaining to us why women wearing makeup oppresses men, somehow.
In a post with the delightfully over-the-top title “Men’s rights are directly tied to the power of paint and powder. Ill explain,” warspite88 sets forth his theory:
It is my belief that women have become so beautiful through the use of makeup that most women and men are influenced dramatically and view women more as goddess and men as dogs. The power of makeup has helped to fuel a war against men’s basic human rights.
Uh, what?
Lets face it, men are ugly compared to women, right? Many men feel sorry for women or think it is oppressive that so many women wear makeup.
I’m pretty sure most men don’t get angry when a woman puts on lipstick. That’s just you, dude. Well, you and a thousand other MRAs.
Well, if you dig really deep into history and our modern use of makeup, you will see it points to one key element of humanity, Power.
Wait. I thought female power resided in the ass, not the face. Didn’t Warren Farrell write a book about that or something?
Power to attract those you want (or label unwanted attention as harassment as a result of powder power)
Powder power? Is that like miniskirt power? You are Warren Farrell, aren’t you?
Power to influence Power to feel good about yourself (vain or not) Just a few examples
Dude, sorry to interupt your little rant here, but would it kill you to put periods at the end of your sentences?
Makeup is expensive, a huge industry, so money and making others pay for your power is in high demand.
I had no idea the women were so devious. Making men pay for their makeup, which they then use to make men pay for … more makeup. Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s ingenious. At least until the makeup-using manipulator is found dead in her apartment, lipstick tube still in her hand, crushed by the gigantic boxes of makeup she conned poor male suckers into buying for her.
[W]e see it in every day life, in relationship, those trying to get relationships. we see it in business, court rooms, churches, places of power. We see it in schools, young girls even. We see it in the media oh yes those sexy Fox women, wonder why those women were hired? Why they put on so much makeup? Take a guess boys, take a guess white knights. Take a guess MRMs.
You seem a little fixated on the Fox News women.
The power of paint and powder to influence others minds, their reactions, their actions, it is one of the most deeply rooted human aspects of power projection yet few ever take it seriously. The power of makeup to make women beautiful to seduce and control a horny man or a white knight has built kingdoms, it has destroyed kingdoms, it has had major political influence around the world for all of history.
Behold, the most powerful woman in history:
Weird. I feel an almost irresistible urge to buy that woman some more makeup. MUS T RESIST.
There is a reason why most women use makeup, because it gives them power, subtle, acceptable power that few men can ignore.
Women’s sexuality, it is natural and men are pawns to it because men are wired to view women as sexual objects. … So when men see a woman dolled up with makeup more often than not his head falls head over heels with lust (not love) desire (not caring).
His HEAD falls HEAD over HEELS with LUST.
His HEAD.
Let’s just think about this for a second. How does a HEAD fall head over heels? A HEAD DOESN’T HAVE HEELS IT IS JUST A HEAD.
Does it borrow some heels for the occasion? Does it hold the heels in its mouth? So many questions.
The power of beauty and charisma that comes with paint and powder changes the world.
So how is it related to mens rights?
Oh, this oughtta be good.
Go outside, yes leave your computer. Go to any public place and watch people. Watch how men react to women who are dressed sexy or wear more makeup.
Uh, ok. But then I’d have to put on some pants.
Or just watch this stuff on TV.
Yeah, on second thought, let’s not go outside at all. Let’s base our entire knowledge of how men and women interact on old sitcoms and Fox News. You know, the news channel with all those sexy Fox women.
Anyway, so how does this relate to Men’s Rights?
Men are ugly compared to women with paint and powder right? How dare men show attraction to beautiful women, they must be pigs! Right?
Uh, what? Is this your actual argument? Are you actually trying to make some sort of sense? Or are you just typing?
White Knights love beautiful women on the outside , oh yes the white knight shield of justice is like a mirror to reflect the beauty of any female even a woman who murders her husband or rapes a boy.
Wat.
But a white knights sword is dripping with the blood of innocent men who dare even attempt equality with a beautiful woman.
Damn, this got dark, really dark, all of a sudden.
The power of paint and powder, it has affected every one of you reading this at some point in your life. it will again.
Well, not if one of those white knights has stabbed you to death, I mean, yikes! But let’s not get hung up on details.
It is not evil or wrong to wear makeup in my opinion but it is important that we become aware of how much of a paint and powder worshiping society we have become.
Is it any wonder men’s rights and well being have been left far behind in society that craves women and their paint and powder? Just saying.
Just saying?
JUST SAYING?!!
THAT’S how your ending this post?
Dude, your cockamamie thesis is that evil makeup-wearing, husband-murdering, boy-raping women rule the world, while easily manipulated white knights are going around wantonly stabbing any Men’s Rights Activists they can find.
And you end your rant with “just saying?”
Really? I mean, if you’re going to put it out there, fucking put it out there! Commit to it! End with something, you know, dramatic.
“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!”
You know, something like that. Something cool.
End strong! End big!
Just saying.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering about that Grabthar’s hammer thing:
—
What part of “shut up about it” did you not understand, Emil?
PS : That was a rhetorical question, not a suggestion that you talk some more. Do not talk any more.
Emil, do fuck off, pumpkin.
I’m sorry, but I feel rather strongly about having my arguments twisted, ignored and misrepresented. It’s a part of that honesty thing. I will leave you alone now.
LAST WORD!
Know when I said earlier that I’d encountered men like this before and never enjoyed the experience? Behold as history repeats itself.
*rolls eyes real hard*
*looks around for flounce-scoring chart*
Here, have a cute fluffy goat eating some flyers. It’s much more interesting than Emil is.
http://alongwayforrice.tumblr.com/post/91997282396/the-adventures-of-fluffy-goat-in-xiahe-china
Yay goats! Here, have some award-winning baby goats as well!
Rants like that make me want to wear a lot more make-up. Bring me my eyeliner! I have men to destroy!
No, he’s just some plastic bags caught in the breeze that people mistook for wild dogs. Plastic. Bags. PLASTIC. BAGS.
Hmm, I’ll say 7/10. A solid flounce, short and pithy, with flourishes of insufferable sanctimony and a fauxpology opener.
But Katz, he was so, like, profound and shit.
You know, if this argument (that makeup = power) was valid, wouldn’t that make mimes the most powerful group evah?
I mean, if mimes are awful enough that even the Patrician is scared of them… Hmm, maybe makeup IS power!
@samantha:
Are you by any chance thinking of the Wodaabe? They have male beauty contests judged by women, in which the guys are all done up in makeup and finery…quite the spectacle!
Bina
That’s really cool! It’s actually cute to make into a love story, a better love story than twilight.
Sorry twilight fans.
I never knew I was violating the Geneva Convention by wearing eyeliner and mascara. I guess I’m going to be tried for crimes against humanity now.
Dustedeste
http://shrewsburyconservatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/marcel-marceau2.jpg
Just look at how POWERFUL he is!
fruitloopsie:
No joke, after I saw Marcel Marceu’s “The Maskmaker,” I immediately gained respect for mimes everywhere. That’s power, right there. Pretty sure it wasn’t the make-up though…
Warspite88 has it all wrong haha. Women wear makeup primarily to attempt to look like the “ideal” woman they see portrayed all over magazines and television, or because they simply feel makeup makes them look/feel better about themselves. It also acts as a way to conceal flaws, since women’s value is associated with how “fuckable” they are. I always see MRA / Red Pill types of men going on and on about how men “age like fine wine” and women “age like milk”, and so males power and appeal only gets stronger as they grow older, while women hit 25 and suddenly become bag ladies trying to latch onto some “beta-male” because now she is ugly and needs a man….lol. Seriously, so many dudes on the internet talk just like that.
I swear MRA’s sound like crazy conspiracy theorists sometimes. “THE POWER OF PAINT AND POWDER – BEWARE OF THE WOMEN’S VOODOO MAGIC TRICKS, GENTS, IT’S A FEMINIST CONSPIRACY!!!!”
Heh…any love story is better than that, with the possible exception of Fifty Shades of Ghaaah.
But yeah, that would be a good story idea, or maybe a fantasy tale set on some other world, but based on similar notions. The Wodaabe have been of interest to me since I saw them in National Geographic several years ago. These guys should read that mag. They might even learn something!
@cassandrakitty
Don’t joke about cooties. Ten thousands of boys growing up in the US perish to it every year.
Ok I have to share my two cents on this. As a woman who typically does not wear make up. No, it’s not because I don’t care about my appearance (I do not like the insinuation that only people who care about their appearance wear make up and vice-versa) but I just never cared to wear it. When I am in the office there is a lot of pressure to “look professional” and for women, includes make up. I can’t say I agree with it. I do just as good work without it, and my work attire is appropriate and clean. I love how there is no mention by the OP about women who don’t wear make up… I know there’s tons of crap written by “manosphere” folks about how women should wear make up and if they don’t they are gross, lazy, unfeminine or whatever their insult of the moment is. So which is it dudes? Basically it comes down to if you wear make up you are shallow and if you don’t you’re lazy. What the ever loving fuck. There is literally no winning.
So, men can go by with barest level of personal grooming and think they are “committed to honesty”. It almost like there are no society enforced standards on how much grooming men must do to not be consider slobs.
I’m bemused that someone with such commitment to “honesty” would be writing fiction. Fiction is full of LIES. LIES, I tell you!