Should women wear make-up?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

20. A woman who wears make-up is NOT a traitor to her gender

but lately I have been left with the impression that women who have been fortunate enough to have been born with desirable body features and employs them to her personal benefit has left other women at a disadvantage. Explicit or not the message is they should stop doing what they are doing.

I'm not prepared to say that.

I don't consider myself unattractive and certainly not an, "ugly lesbian troll just for not wearing makeup." I have been the object of attention plenty in my day, even when I didn't want to be (ask me how I got my username). However, I have felt -- pardon the pun -- the siren song of using my looks to gain advantage. Don't tell me that an opportune smile and doe eyes can't exploit a man's congenital stupidity. I'm no Kate Upton but I'm no piker either.

But I have no desire for such things. I want to be known on my own terms. I am stronger than any preconceived notion, cultural expectation or first glance. I write my own fate and so should every other woman/person and if they decide to write it in rouge than let the world beware.

If beauty is as superficial as we have been told than it is the beholder we should pity, not the beholden.