How These Women Reacted When a Man Told a Woman to Stop Putting on Makeup Is Amazing
Female solidarity is a great thing. Female solidarity in the presence of a self-righteous man is even better.
On New Year’s Eve, one woman was happily touching up her makeup on the train. Nothing wrong with that, right? A fellow male passenger decided this was unacceptable and told her to stop, as “it’s vulgar.”
Suddenly, every woman in the train car began to fix her own makeup. One of the female passengers tweeted about the incident; a tweet which has since been retweeted more than 1,000 times.
Bloke has just told the woman he’s with not to put makeup on on the Tube. Every other woman in the carriage is now fixing their makeup.
— rosamundi (@rosamundi) December 31, 2016
Many replies (from men too) agreed with the women. One stated that “putting on make-up [doesn’t] impact anyone’s life.”
@rosamundi I get the invasive music & loud phone call gripes but how does putting make up impact on anyones life?
— Andrew Curagh (@andy3974) December 31, 2016
Other women shared similar stories, with one saying that a man told her doing her makeup on a bus was “unbecoming of a lady.”
@rosamundi a strange man on the bus once told me “putting make up on in public is very unbecoming of a lady”
— Beth Twiggles (@BethTw) December 31, 2016
The woman who originally posted shared that she doesn’t normally do her makeup on the train because she doesn’t want to poke her eye out, which is a very good reason to avoid it.
@BethTw quite. I don’t normally do makeup in public in case I poke myself in the eye, but we all treated it like a declaration of war.
— rosamundi (@rosamundi) December 31, 2016
Seems like these men need a lesson in what it’s really like to be a woman — and minding their own business.
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