Should women wear make-up?

[The Straight Story]

98. What we need here is some good door to door work and some tracts:

The scene is a college dorm and our two new missionaries are Anna and Beth:

(knocking on door)

Amy: Hi..uh can we help you?

Anna: No, but we can help you. I am Anna and I see you are wearing the chains of the oppressor and myself and Beth are here to help you break them.

Amy and Sandy: What?
Amy: The only thing I am wearing is a dress to the dance tonight. Thank you goodbye!

Beth: Heed our words and open your eyes! That dress you have on was created by men to enhance your figure and how you appear, the makeup you have covered up with is a veil of oppression and objectifying you - you are being painted to be presented to the male of the species for his sexual gratification.

Sandy: You mean men will notice us at the dance tonight? Like the guys over at sigma delta alpha?

(Anna and Beth look sadly at one another and shake their heads)

Anna: A dance? The good book says such things, especially when combined with makeup and dresses, is likened to a female apocalypse brought on by the demon Manispig. Your lives will be terrible if you continue on this path. Yes, those men will 'notice' you if that is what you want to call it. They will lust after you, want to have sex and thus use your body their desires...

Amy: Go on....please, proceed

Beth: Men are the reason you are spending money on make up and dresses. You are selling yourself to them as a product, to be purchased and used solely for their pleasure. Women in our society - well just look at magazine covers. Does it strike you as odd that they don't have women on them who look like they just woke up? They don't care about the contents of women, just the packaging. If a man is attracted to you and wants to use you for his own pleasure is that what you want? Don't you want to be desired for what is inside of you? Since a man wants to be inside you shouldn't he see that as the most important part?

Sandy: We're going to a dance. We want to be noticed. And we plan on scoping out some men we want to have sex with, and trust me when I say we plan on looking at some packaging ourselves.

Anna: So...you are atheists? Can't you see how what you are doing is destroying the rain forests? They test that make up on rabbits and cut down the amazon so you can enjoy others looking at you.

Amy: They cut down trees so I can wipe by butt too, but I am not going to stop.

(Slams door)

Beth (looking horrified): So they libertarians and atheists? What has become of this generation sister Anna?

Anna: It is shocking my friend. We have our work cut out for us. They seem to believe they have a mind of their own and desires of their own. They do not understand that the desires they have are wrong and controlled by men who don't wear makeup or dresses.

Sandy: I think we are needed at this party. We should follow them to it and invade the den on iniquity. We have truth and the word with us.


Tune in next week for the next thrilling episode "Party of the damned"