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.

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.

You are not a movement whose purported raison d'etre is to embody women's power, though. You are an individual, not a social statement.

I am sitting in the oncologist's office for my three month check up.

I am wearing a dress.

This is your brain on Tamoxifen.

apparently, lipstick is no longer an economic indicator, but nail polish is.

Perkins,

I cannot believe it has been 3 months already! Congratulations on this milestone and I hope things go well.

So, I may get an x-mas fail this year. Our family is celebrating x-mas this coming weekend, so I need my presents by Friday. Last night I placed a big order with Think Geek. While doing so I discovered that it takes "one to three business days" for them to ship your order. So I paid for overnight shipping. But the "one to three business days" could mean it gets shipped on Friday or Monday, which would obviously be too late.

How long does Think Geek typically take to ship things out for folks here? I'm sorta' assuming that overnight shipping means they'll expedidte getting the stuff out... what do folks think?

You are an individual, not a social statement.

But I, an individual, can participate in a social statement. And if that social statement has an effect of taking back lipstick for the people who actually wear it, it's for the good by my reasoning.

tommy,

I have only ordered from them once or twice and they have been pretty speedy, but this time of year? I don't know.

good luck!