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Shitty thread Wasshoi!

Gender Bender Quest

Create Date: 2016-03-16T01:15:00Z
Modify Date: 2016-03-16T01:39:00Z

For my gender bender quest I decided to break the gender norm of women wearing makeup exclusively. I had my friend Jeremy's sister apply eyeliner, eye-shadow, blush, mascara and lipstick to my mug before prowling the mall for the next two hours. To accentuate the contrast between an obvious male and a feminine norm of wearing makeup, I decided to shave and bake my head and shave all but my goatee and mustache before applying the makeup. The results that I found from this social experiment were mostly what was to be expected.

Makeup is something that women use increase their sex appeal and femininity. Mascara, eyeliner and eye-shadow add emphasis to eye-lashes and make the eye more catching. Blush makes the face's skin more appealing and toned while lipstick is meant to unconsciously remind a male of the rosy-pink color of the lips of the vulva, the labia denoting health and sex appeal. Personally I prefer women who wear little or no makeup. I always thought it was funny how the body-acceptance movement has been focused on overweight women. Facial beauty and weight are the problems women are most concerned with and yet they have quite a lot of leeway and control in the form of makeup, plastic surgery, dieting, exercise and even liposuction. Despite this there is an entire social movement focused on women being accepted for things they have relative control over. On the other hand men have little control over things like body size and facial attractiveness and none over height; the irony being in what I perceive to be more social acceptability around denying a man for these reasons he has less control over than accepting a woman for features she could control but chooses not to. It seems as though there is a double standard to the criticism of double standards.

Before the experiment I felt excited and ready to do what I was about to do, which was ideally to make as many people feel as uncomfortable and offended as possible. When I got to the mall I found myself much less anxious than I had thought I would be and felt rather at home breaking the norm. There were times when I forgot I was even wearing makeup but was reminded by the piercing eye-contact. I have long felt a sort of placating sense of helplessness and especially shame at making eye contact, especially with the opposite sex, and so I force myself to do this in the hopes that it will eventually go away, and I've found that internally I cringe much less when I know the person I'm looking at is disgusted with me, that I really enjoyed. In some instances I do so simply to spite myself or out of malice for whom I'm looking at. And so increased eye contact mainly in the form of either long stares of shooting glances was something I noticed. I was never really nervous which was something I didn't expect was. Men also noticed more than women, and typically older people noticed more. I made an effort to adamantly greet people with enthusiasm and an obnoxiously loud voice, which was usually met with abject and complacent stoicism. It was exquisite. While walking around the mall I was accompanied by friend Jeremy who is extremely masculine (in facial and bodily physique as well as attitude and posture) and also quite insecure (in underlying demeanor and mannerisms). I'm pretty sure some people thought we were an item and I was the bottom. Older Asian women seemed the most embarrassed at the sight of me. Some men became extremely uncomfortable and would leave the area with their wives and girlfriends. I saw three people I knew who were all very friendly. I even got recommendations on my makeup from a couple girls. Different minorities responded differently; Asians were the most unaccepting, blacks the most friendly, Hispanics and whites were a combinations of indifferent to jovial.

By far my favorite experiences were going to the Marine Recruiting station and hitting on two girls. The first simply told me should had a boy-friend when I gave her my standard pickup-line "there's no way in hell you're single". The second girl answered in the affirmative so I asked for her number, at which point she almost laughingly-yelled "no" before virtually cowering behind a four year old boy that was with her and speed walking in the opposite direction. The Marine recruiters were friendly and tactful though I could tell they were full of contempt. They rejected me on the reasonable grounds that I was on probation.

Personally I have reservations about what reasons a person breaks gender norms for, if they are doing it so that they may retain the conscious belief in their heterosexuality while performing homosexual acts without acknowledging their underlying homophobia and accepting that they are gay; then I can't condone it. However, I would die for people's right to do whatever the fuck they want even if I don't agree with it and I really enjoyed this social experiment. One recommendation, if we had a transgender person in our class I would've like their standard for this quest not to be that they defy a gender norm in public but rather that they conform to a gender norm, which would be stepping out of their comfort zone. This was great.