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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably so, OP.  I remember when I was a teen, and used to think the best example was "cover up."  Just says it right there, cover up the real you!

(and then get zits and blackheads and start that whole product cycle...the rat race of skin beauty.  I remember reading an article, years ago, where Lauren Hutton (model) spent three months in the desert wearing nothing and said her skin never looked better)

Anyways I agree, but the high heels situation is the thing that irks me the most, probably because it both hinders women's mobility and ruins their feet (so mobility and health).  I wear them sometimes but not the crazy height that is in nowadays. I live in LA and yesterday was watching three women in amazingly high shoes totter around a CVS; it was ridiculous.  It's ridiculous watching these women try and WALK. That being said, the shoes were pretty.[/quote]

I agree with this poster completely. Seven sisters grad here, feminist, sometimes non-shaver. In college I had a joke campaign called -- the Anti-Panty Rebellion -- "let's storm the citidels of crude male nomenclature!" (they're called underwear.) But now I occasionally wear makeup, and periodically wear and reject mostly sensible heels. I have two girls and I want to raise them not to feel they need to wear heels, shave their legs or wear uncomfortable "panties." I don't think makeup is as problematic for me, as long as it is fun and optional. Women have been wearing makeup going back to Cleopatra and beyond. Plus, you could always do angry makeup or a slash under your eye. Think of it as war paint -- if  you want :)[/quote]

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