The Hey Girl series completely cracks my shit up.

I like dressing for the cause. I think if it's properly managed it helps visibility. And I felt a sweet rush of compatriotism when I saw other people dressed in purple at work on Spirit Day.

March 8th, 2012: Show the power of women on International Women's Day by wearing red lipstick.

Wait, how does wearing cosmetics display "power"? Seriously? Buying into the corporate message that we aren't good enough and attractive enough as we are (and that being "attractive" is what gives us worth), so we need to buy their product and wear their product to conform to a societal standard of impossible beauty is how we display "power"?

Maybe I missed the first part.

I really need some purple tops, or at least one, for the Alzheimer's. I'm not wearing their t-shirts, and other than that, all I have is a fleece scarf, and it just doesn't show team spirit.

Oh, meara, I got some towels and some scented candles for my aunts. They've bought me scented candles in the past, so I figure they think it's a good gift, and who doesn't want new towels?

So the frat circulating the rapey survey has been suspended. A member of the national organization is coming to campus to pay a visit.

Sounds like these young men are in trouble.

I didn't know lipstick was such a tool of the man.

Yeah, it seems odd to choose red lips to show power.

Love the roller derby "Hey Girl". Love them all. Love the Gosling. Still very distracted by the Not!Gosling at work.

I didn't know lipstick was such a tool of the man.

Multimillion (billion?) dollar industry based on convincing women that we don't look acceptable unless we buy their product? It's not foot-binding, but it's not exactly some pretty pigment in a tube that exists in a societal vacuum free of performative expectations, either.

If I were in the habit of wearing lipstick anyway, I might think about it as a solidarity thing. But since I never wear makeup and don't own any, I don't see how buying a tube of red lipstick is going to be in any way empowering.

I'd maybe be able to wear it for 15 minutes before wiping it off. The feeling of makeup on my skin gives me the creepy-crawlies.

I feel comfortable wearing lipstick for reasons I value, and for reasons I choose. I enjoy the makeup I wear, and don't feel oppressed for having bought or worn it. I'm pretty okay repurposing my own aesthetics for me.

I wear heels for my own reasons too.

The frat questionnaire came out because:

Though the full questionnaire hasn't been released, according to student blogs, the last question got out when a new member sent the document to a teaching assistant instead of his homework

I'd love to think that was Freud at work, or someone trying to evade taking responsibility for exposing the behaviour of the frat, instead of just a really stupid mistake.