NAOMI WOLF, TOO, HAS SAID THAT MAKE UP IS GREAT

CURRENTLY reading original periodical texts from the Victorian era, to write an article, and am bursting with outrage at someone writing in --shock horror!-- All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's magazine! He says that only desperate women use make-up, older women, who make a caricature of beauty, and imitate the "savage peoples" who paint themselves!

Grrrrrr! I cannot begin to list those insulted by this guy: women, racial groups, older women, you name them!

My aim is to produce a review and outline of Victorian beauty discourse from periodical and other sources (not tried before for the Victorians). I am sure I will find more friendly texts. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, for example, is more tolerant, provided that make up is discreet. I will keep you posted!

We feminists now counter these arguments against make up. Not all of feminism approves make up, but there is a branch which does. Third Wave feminists like the lipstick feminists, Riot Grrrl and Girlie approve of make up and speak for a woman's right to enhance her own beauty and appearance if she wants to. Naomi Wolf, too, has said that make up is great so long as we do not feel inadequate without it.

Have a good day and be well!
P.S. I hope the writer in All the Year Round is not Dickens himself. I love Dickens so much. Gr!