I think that it might bother me, if a man, not be able to wear, something, anything. As a woman, I can wear anything.. at least when I was thinner, I could wear a men's shirt and tight jeans, say, and have no one make conjectures re my sexuality. Men do have feminine aspects, whether gay or bi or not, but have more barriers socially to act that out than women do their masculine attributes.
On makeup, I have no idea. I have as a california woman barely used any make up in decades, too damn much trouble. It has seemed that women in NY use it much more than we do. Yes, a little concealer, some lipstick, color on brows if you are nearalbino. A little something if your undereyes are nearing swampy green.
I make up for this lack of interest with earrings.
Now there is another frontier for men, besides the odd ring or two.
I do enjoy wearing jewelry, there is just something about accessories that I really like. But putting some gook on my face and acting like it makes me prettier than my natural face, even if I have scars and blemishes (which I do), is completely absurd and unnecessary.
As for women's clothing, I have not nor do I expect that I will ever have an urge to wear skin-tight, form-fitting, try-to-squeeze-an-extra-inch-in clothing. That was all left behind in the eighties, thank god!
Subtle makeup - yes. Garish makeup - no.
Makeup should be used to "enhance" your natural beauty, unfortunately, some people try to "create" beauty through makeup !!
Quote:Dying of grey hair has been socially acceptable for men for some time but I don't bother with that either.
I didn't know it could kill you! I'd better get my locks colored ASAP.
Quote:It was originally just a cigarette, I wonder what cig and fag have in common? Oh....
My one piece of information in the world. Prolly wrong. "Fag" or "faggot" comes from the old word for a bundle of firewood. Something you burned. For a cigarette the relationship is pretty obvious. For homosexuals it's pretty awful: think the holocaust.
As to makeup... absolutely not. Don't understand it on menfolk or on womenfolk. The idea of walking around with stuff smeared on my face is -- well, I don't much care for the thought.
While we are on the topic, has anyone else noticed that the boys on 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' don't actually dress that well?
Quote:While we are on the topic, has anyone else noticed that the boys on 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' don't actually dress that well?
Blasphemer! I suppose you're going to say the Melissa and Joan Rivers were ugly dresses to the Oscars, too.
Heh heh....Mrs. cav met Melissa once, at an Oscar party and says in real life she's startin' to look like Skeletor.
I've been told more than once that I am a dead ringer for a young Charles Bronson.
Can you imagine makeup on that mug?
(Well, maybe I'll try just a little eyeliner.)
Spackle, gustav. Spackle.
hmmm, patiodog with make-up.
it could work.
I'm uncomfortable with synthetic fabrics next to my skin, never mind goop.
Burt's Bees makes some wonderful, natural products...
Absoluteleeeeeee, sozobeeeee!
There are some lovely natural cosmetic products which would not be harmful to the patiodog.
Slight tangent -- A year or so ago, a treehugger-hippie-bio-cosmetics chain store called "The Body Shop" advertized with posters saying "We don't test our products on animals. We use tyrants instead". Below that headline, there were pictures of Ghaddafi, Ceaucescu, Saddam Hussein, and I think Robert Mugabe, terribly mutilated with lipstick, makeup and eye shadow.
I loved that poster. This thread, combined with the pictures of Saddam Hussein's interrogation, brought the memory back to my mind these days.
make up...men??? uh uh. how could I get all grabby on you if i'm worrying about getting your foundation all over me?
i think not. If i am not wearing it, neither should you be :-)
hehehe, the sister of the Body Shop's founder works here. She'd be quite amused by your description of it, Thomas. I'll have to save it for her.
Only time I wear make up is when I get drunk and smear my ex-girlfriend's lipstick all over myself while locked in my bedroom listening to "Every Rose Has it's Thorn."
Other than that...hell no. Wicked gay.
