Moments of Permanence - Also: Bathroom products and gender identity

From: nicki Date: June 3rd, 2009 04:23 am (UTC) (Link)

Buying "for Men" products, on my part: cisgendered privilege, feminist transgressive act, or both?

Sensible acknowledgment that a lot of the gender identity specific stuff that society pushes is artificial and stupid.

The fact that I have to get "for Men" products to get packaging that's in soothing monochrome and products that suit me (e.g. a facial wash that isn't designed to remove makeup, and therefore likely to strip my un-makeup-touched skin, or "moisturising", and therefore hideously greasy, or both): misogynistic, stupid, or what?

Stupid in that it is labeled "for Men", vaguely sexist in assumptions about women and vaguely reinforcing artificial gender bilateralization that is unnecessary in this case.

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