# If you choose to wear so much makeup, you must accept the consequences

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 30, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872 "2014-03-30T01:20:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Intolt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@Intolt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intolt)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/1 "2014-03-30T01:20:35Z")

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I didn’t know if I should post here or in MPSIMS.

I just found this absurd.

[BBC video](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26803014)

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**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/2 "2014-03-30T01:29:37Z")

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Just what is the point? Video on opposition to same sex marriage and the spokesperson is wearing a tad too much eyeliner?

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/3 "2014-03-30T02:34:20Z")

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Good lord, if every woman in the world looked like her, I’d become gay!

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/4 "2014-03-30T02:44:11Z")

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> [@Athabasca](#):
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> Just what is the point? Video on opposition to same sex marriage and the spokesperson is wearing a tad too much eyeliner?

I think the point is how stupid her argument is. And that her silly argument is backed up by her looking silly.

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**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/5 "2014-03-30T03:08:46Z")

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I thought this was going to be about clowns or mimes.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/6 "2014-03-30T03:49:31Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I think the point is how stupid her argument is. And that her silly argument is backed up by her looking silly.

While I agree that her argument is completely invalid, I honestly don’t see much shock value in her appearance. She looks like a lot of other people I see around me everyday. This thread is stupid.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-choose-to-wear-so-much-makeup-you-must-accept-the-consequences/684872/7 "2014-03-30T11:46:51Z")

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Yeah, this was a bit of a let-down.
