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while i sympathize with many of their plights, there is a point at which i stop having sympathy for male makeup artists
there is a point at which it just becomes the same old tale of "this is a women's sphere, only women can use this, but if you want to do it *professionally*, you'd better be a man because women can't be trusted with it now that it's important work"
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you see it in cooking, you see it in sewing, you see it in teaching - a cook is female, a chef is male. a person who sews is female, a fashion designer is male. so on. so forth. only men are allowed to have influence and vision on the direction that things will take. women, as second-best, are expected to just consume and follow, as per the misogynist status quo.
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in fact, to get REALLY fucking spicy, there is a massive problem - especially in these sort of spheres of fashion, etc. - with gay men, usually white and cis, who feel that they never need to answer for their own misogyny because they are gay.
that's not how it works. being gay is not carte blanche to belittle, look down upon, and harass women. "it's ok honey i'm gay" is not a response to "wait no, stop grabbing my breasts".
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it's not a coincidence that many of these same dudes will wrap themselves in casual transphobia up to their eyeballs, because they think misogyny is fine, and therefore they're allowed - if not honor-bound, "cause i'm gay!" - to hate many things that are typically female. "ugh, pussies are so GROSS, can you IMAGINE even HAVING one? AWFUL, DISGUSTING... i'm so glad i'll never have to deal with one near me 'cos i'm gay!"
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not even getting to the attitude that this can get magnified into in some parts of the drag scene, where women are objects to be lampooned and mocked in hilarious caricature and not valued for anything else - except shutting up and sitting down because *they* know the *right* way to do *everything*, including *being a woman* better than women would ever think of.
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so yeah, i'm not exactly cheering the hardest about how jeffree star or some shit is ~breaking boundaries~ by being ~a man in makeup~.
men being taken more seriously than women, in fields that are meant to be women's spaces, is at some point just the same old tired misogyny we've been hearing this whole time. by all means celebrate the individual accomplishments, but recognize the pattern as you do.
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i guess i should clarify, just in case
i don't think makeup is the domain of only women. i don't think fashion design or nursing or teaching should be, either.
but these are things where the patriarchy has said "that's for women"... but also "if you want to do it seriously or professionally, you have to be a man."
it's just the same old patriarchal "only men are worthy." i'm tired of it.
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@wigglytuffitout I don't remember the details but isn't jeffree star a creep or a racist or something? Feel like I've heard a lot of bad stuff about him
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@productidea oh god yeah, i barely know the tip of the iceburg there but he's a thoroughly detestable person. his attitude of "listen up you silly bitches, THIS is how it's SUPPOSED to be" that he just exudes ended up spawning this entire fucking rant lmfao
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at some point a man telling women patronizingly they are doing makeup all wrong and he's there to save them from themselves is just the same old tired song and dance.
and "but i'm not straight!" is not a get out of jail free card. you can be gay and still be a misogynist.