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In fact, a woman is often rewarded for faking it.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

A woman can fake her sexuality, her orgasms, her facial features, her height, her boob size, and her hair color without being punished for it. In fact, a woman is often rewarded for faking it.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Up until about 1955 or so, there was a law in England forbidding a woman to use these artifices. It was all a part of the old 'Witchcraft Law' and nobody had taken any notice of it since the days of Mathew Hopkin, but it stayed there until comparatively recently

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

Men fake it too. They wear raised shoes, fake tans, clothes to accentuate parts of their bodies, take pills to give them hard-ons when they can't, dye their hair, lie about how much money they have, how many women they've fucked, who they've fucked, tell you they're not fucking anyone but you. Men fake it just as much as women do, so we also have to cut through the bull, but just in a different way.

The problem about the way most women are is that they are like that FOR MEN in the first place. If they felt comfortable in their own skin not having to try to live up to some media expectation shoved down their throats before they hit puberty then maybe they would be more natural.

needles

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

A woman can fake her sexuality, her orgasms, her facial features, her height, her boob size, and her hair color without being punished for it. In fact, a woman is often rewarded for faking it.

I saw someone online say this. I think his post was mean to disparage women. But the thing is, it is true! Women who fake her facial features, her height, her boob size, her hair colour etc etc., so get rewards and praised many times for faking it.

I'm a anti-plastic anything person. I like being all natural, I mean, I like my men all natural too, you got these Korean pop artists male who put on so much make up and it's plastic. I've dated men who got angry at me for refusing to wear make up to his company events. He says I will embarrass him. The thing is, I NEVER wear make up even to my own company events, even when I see a client. And I am not gonna start.

It's just bullshit that women are pressured to wear face paint at all.

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins
The problem about the way most women are is that they are like that FOR MEN in the first place. If they felt comfortable in their own skin not having to try to live up to some media expectation shoved down their throats before they hit puberty then maybe they would be more natural.

needles

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Those things are blatant and should have had attention drawn to how false they are. That a woman who is a good parent wouldn't want to do that considering how much it would require someone else taking care of the baby. They were an opportunity for you to address how wrong this is.

Worse than that are tv commercials for soap or laundry detergent when the woman looks like a model and yet has a smiling family in the background. There's nothing to use to start a conversation on the falsity of picking such people as salespeople.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins
The problem about the way most women are is that they are like that FOR MEN in the first place. If they felt comfortable in their own skin not having to try to live up to some media expectation shoved down their throats before they hit puberty then maybe they would be more natural.

needles

I would comment on the first remark there by saying that from my observation women are for more hyper-critical of other women in how they present themselves in public.

As to the second remark quoted, oh boy ...

I loved taking the nieces to the store but the worst thing was the grocery store check-out line. What unbelievable crap in those magazines! That and all the candy bars. The magazines were full of crap about Hollywood stars, etc. but also complete garbage like "How to look like a bikini model 6 weeks after the baby! [is born]. All these 'tips' on make-up, hair, etc.

Looking at a three yr. old and the eight yr. old's eyes locking in on those mag covers (and we know how kids eyes look when locked in) ... disturbed me greatly.

I don't remember exactly what (good improvisors never remember those details) but I did everything possible to divert their attention from that crap.

Ugh! What mind poison those things are.

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

My daughter went to private schools with dress codes. She was a preteen when we discovered that there were no clothes for sale that fit the dress codes. I even tried the Penney's school catelog and zilch.

You can't buy girls shorts that are longer than their fingertips. There are none for sale, only stuff that is cut so high their ass is visible.
She took all her riding jeans and cut them into shorts and I had to buy her new jeans.

So I would have taken umbrage at anyone who claimed it was me dressing her that way. But I wasn't going to insist she wore a burka either. She was a kid and should be allowed to run around in shorts and a tank top when the temps were approaching 90.

As far as it being her clothing that somehow forced grown men to try to pick her up, bs. The first time she was just hitting puberty, in breeches and high boots with the crop in her boot. Fully covered with two other girls dressed identical, waiting in line to buy lunch while the mother who drove them that day was in another store nearby. Explaining what he meant and that her feeling icky was not her fault but his was not something I had expected to do six months before she hit double digits.