{"id":3289,"date":"2014-03-22T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2014-03-22T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:23:04","slug":"how-to-totally-miss-the-point-nomakeupselfie-manupandmakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3289","title":{"rendered":"How To Totally Miss The Point (#nomakeupselfie & #manupandmakeup)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You would have thought that people would have reacted to the grass roots Cancer awareness campaigns known by their hash tags of #nomakeupselfie and #manupandmakeup either by joining in, or by thinking it’s a bit silly and ignoring it. But no, someone<\/a> has to miss the point and run off at a tangent.<\/p>\n

Now it’s possible that what she writes about women wearing makeup is true … I’m not qualified to judge, although it’s interesting to note that men and women have\u00a0both<\/em> been wearing makeup for thousands of years. There’s no signs that women or men started first.<\/p>\n

Oh! And just for the record, if a woman pops down the shops early in the morning without wearing makeup and happens to look like a zombie that’s been that way for three weeks, men do\u00a0not<\/em> stop, gawk, and then run off down the street shouting “The zombie apocalypse is here”.<\/p>\n

But what I do have to take exception to is the idea that the men behind (and in front) of #manupandmakeup are mocking\u00a0femininity. I don’t think femininity was in their heads at the time, except when looking at a #nomakeupselfi picture and wondering “how can I get involved”.<\/p>\n

Because it’s self evident that a campaign that involves taking off your makeup is somewhat tricky for most men to get involved with. Making the switch from taking makeup off to putting makeup on, is a simple and indeed brilliant way of changing that.<\/p>\n

If there is any mocking involved, it’s self-mockery. Men are deliberately making themselves look ridiculous to make a point.<\/p>\n

And just for the record, it’s noticeable just how many #nomakeupselfie pics come complete with a statement along the lines of “nothing you haven’t seen before”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You would have thought that people would have reacted to the grass roots Cancer awareness campaigns known by their hash tags of #nomakeupselfie and #manupandmakeup either by joining in, or by thinking it’s a bit silly and ignoring it. But no, someone has to miss the point and run off at a tangent. Now it’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[1194,1193,1195],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-manupandmakeup","tag-nomakeupselfie","tag-makeup","category-7-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-R3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}