pretty *in progress*

People do what they are rewarded for doing.

Men are rewarded for far more things than women are. Men are rewarded for:

Being male

Women are rewarded for: Being pretty

Where 'pretty' is defined in such a narrow way that only .00073% of women can possibly hope to conform adequately to the absolutely insane beauty standards being foisted on us.

Men are required to:

Be clean, neat and tidy
Wear decent clothes
They may shave or not, as they see fit.
They may wear their hair any way they like; convenience is more important than style. Any man who spends more than 5 minutes a day on his hair is considered a WUSS.


Women are required to:

Remove every speck of body hair, visible or not except

The hair on her head, which she must wear inconveniently long, and which must give the appearance of a healthy mane, the maintenance of which shall consume not less than one tenth of her daily energy, time and income.

At the same time, a woman must achieve all this while NEVER inconveniencing anyone in the production of said miraculously perfect appearance; she must never keep anyone waiting, or inconvenience someone by having to stop and check her makeup or comb her hair.

Yet no matter what her age, income or social status, she must CONTINUALLY take into account the FEELINGS of the people around her, who may be offended if she is less than PERFECT.

A woman may, if she is exceedingly fortunate, find herself periodically in conformance with the prevailing beauty trends at any given moment. Her hair may happen to naturally be straight at just the moment that stick-straight hair is all the rage; she may happen to be thin, or curvy, or have a particular complexion that just happens to be the flavor of the day.