Great news guys 🎉
So if women wear makeup at work we’re “frivolous” and it harms our leadership chances.. but if we don’t wear makeup we are being unprofessional and are deemed less competent.
So we just need to think of a way for women to not have faces and we’re all set 🤔
A clear example of how performance of femininity is both compulsory (enforced by social, legal, and economic consequences) and devalued because of misogyny.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk, via princedorkface)
When women used to be depressed or were not “taking care of their men” properly their husbands could send them to the psych ward for attitude adjustments. This was part of conditioning them to always wear a smile. They believed that if a woman saw herself smiling that it would become natural practice and that she would be “cured”. This often went along with shock therapies.
This gives a whole new level of creepiness to when random men tell you to smile.
People who talk about the 50s like they were this golden Era frighten me
My dad used to threaten me with “an attitude adjustment” all the time, but for him that meant a belt, branch, or paddle. I always wondered where the term came from though.
(via sigmabunny)