extemporanea: "part-meming"

This entry from extemporanea makes everything I've written about makeup worthwhile.

My original intent was to connect with other women about this issue, and by speaking "out loud" about it, to lend it some legitimacy as a political issue that needs attention from feminists, and women in general. I've previously quoted an eloquent piece by War on Error that bears repeating here:

"4. The intimate, personal, private aspects of our lives have political dimensions. [...] First, though, you have to connect your struggle, your situation, with the situation of others, and that's a political act."

The isolation one girl or woman feels when she questions makeup doesn't have to exist. We have the internet, live and uncensored (at least, at this point in time). I encourage all women to talk about things which bother them, but which they feel is too trivial or personal to bring into the light of day - partly because such discussions are not tolerated by the patriarchal press.

There may be more people than you realize who have had the same thoughts and feelings as you. Connecting is the first step.

Related links: War on Error's three-part series, "The Personal and the Political", "Bad Words" (can be considered "Part II"), and "Personal & Political", Part II (or Part III).

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