2bucksplus: Some dudes wear make-up actually. I couldn't believe it until I saw it in person.Welcome to the
PhoBWanKenobi: Also, there's something hilarious about a dude saying, "Women should do what they want." Thank you for that, male person! I was waiting for you to give me the go ahead.Don't forget to hate on white people who think blacks should have the right to vote, straight people who support GLBT rights, and everyone else who ever said anything nice about another group.
A little lipstick can go miles in the attraction department. But how can it—or a spot of mascara or blush—help you climb the ladder at work? Recent studies from Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and P&G Beauty (makers of CoverGirl) look at how varying styles of makeup can affect perception. "It plays into the power of adornment," says Harvard psychologist Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D., the studies' lead author. "We've talked a lot about beauty's evolution and biology, but those are genetic givens. In this research, we proved that you can take those features and significantly alter how you're perceived—how much people like you, how confident you appear—using just makeup. It's really astonishing." What's more, a separate study in American Economic Review found that employers expect physically attractive workers to perform better and be more competent at their jobs. So how can you use makeup to your benefit? Here, Etcoff distills her findings and shares some career-building insights that have never been published, until now.
jetlagaddict: The whole miracle of personality is expressed by means of appearance.I'll give you "ability to conjugate Latin" as being independent from your willingness to wear makeup, but there is considerable data showing that one's appearance affects their interactions with others, so I'd have to go with "the latter two are almost certainly affected by your personal appearance, which in turn is affected by your willingness to wear makeup."
Believe it or not, my ability to conjugate Latin, to work with professors, and to teach children are expressed not at all by my willingness to wear makeup.
asperity: And the jobs that make it hard to do all those self-care things are often also jobs in which appearance may count for more than it does when you've got a fancy high-skills job where you're respected for your mind.Not sure I agree there. High-skills jobs tend to have benefits like flex-time, higher salaries, and more vacation time, all of which make eating healthier, getting enough rest, and exercising regularly easier.
boo_radley: IAmBroom: "You're going to have to provide a double-blind experiment to prove otherwise, with a considerable sample size. Good luck."That's fine. Most people strongly believe things that hard, cold data disproves. Looks tend to have an effect on how someone is treated - even if your advisor and you agree that you're unlike all the other humans on Earth.
Unless you're my doctoral advisor, I would tend to disagree with you.
15%posted by esprit de l'escalier at 4:59 AM on January 17 [3 favorites]
she tries to get things
out of men
that she can't get
because she's not
15% prettier
One elephant. ...this thing is about women in the society. All women, even the ones who don't wear makeup. It's not about men in the society. You could argue that this is no invisible elephant. It's the one the whole debate rides on, after all. But sometimes the best way to hide something is in plain view.I liked this, as it starts to get at the indexicality — i.e., the referential quality — of makeup. That is, what does social purpose does makeup serve, and what does it mean to subvert it in different ways, and for/by different people? This of course has it's own outward facing meaning. But there's also the internal struggle, the deeply personal meaning tied to our experiences and in the voices of all the we's that we've been in our ongoing dialogues with ourselves. I know that for me personally, the dialogue is conflicted, divergent, sometimes constructive, oftentimes destructive. In some small way, only really known to me (and not always or entirely), it plays out on my face daily. It's very strange to think about and totally impossible not to once the awareness of what I'm actually doing creeps in.
Two elephant. Women without makeup look less exaggeratedly female and therefore they may not receive the correct responses from the society accustomed to seeing exaggerated sex differences everywhere.
Three elephant. ...the hard work of exaggerating sex differences is mostly the work of women.
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