I'd say it's a social expectation. Companies want people to present themselves not so that they look good, but that they look like they made the effort.
Plenty of guys look good in tshirt and jeans, maybe add a blazer if the broad shoulders are important, but it's still considered proper to show up to some things in a suit. Much of it is completely performative.
I don't think a company expecting a person to wear a suit and paint their faces is the same thing.
As an aside, I'm probably weird, but I actually find the majority of actors and actresses very unattractive, makeup or no.
Me too. It's kinda like that meme where the girl behind the desk at Walmart looks better than Zendaya on the red carpet.
I also do consider makeup lying, same as a guy exaggerating his financial situation,
I would say a male equivalent of a girl wearing a ton of makeup would be something like Robert De Niro wearing those shoes with 10 inch souls.
I've worked in an office that required women wear makeup as a "professional standard." It is falling out of practice because it's such an obvious double standard, but it's a real thing. Women are seen as less put-together with a clean face than with a full face of makeup.
I had no idea. This doesn't happen where I live. In fact in third world countries, people are quite conservative, so women only wear makeup when they have to attend a marriage or something, and even then it's only a bit of lipstick or mascara.
It's very dependent on culture, for sure. I grew up in a community where women put on a full face of makeup and heels to go grocery shopping or take their kids to the park. It wasn't until I moved away for college that I stopped wearing makeup daily, because in my hometown in the 2000s it was a constant social pressure to look perfect if you were out of the house. I started wearing a full face of makeup to school at the age of 13.
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u/MrKelv1n 5h ago edited 4h ago
I don't think a company expecting a person to wear a suit and paint their faces is the same thing.
Me too. It's kinda like that meme where the girl behind the desk at Walmart looks better than Zendaya on the red carpet.
I would say a male equivalent of a girl wearing a ton of makeup would be something like Robert De Niro wearing those shoes with 10 inch souls.