Notice that I was not criticizing or responding to those who show such pictures as this is how the person looked at some time and during which she was not wearing makeup. My post was about using these pictures to insinuate how that person would generally look without makeup and in turn making the claim that her good look in general belongs externally to applying the makeup and not her own existence. It is troubling because it shows that the problem in dealing with the existence of women has even reached the level of denying physical attributes.
These insinuations many times make sense like that of someone showing pictures of good tennis players miss using their hands and dropping things in order to suggest that their good tennis playing belong to the rackets they hold instead of the racket being an extension that depended on the capabilities of the player. That is in addition to the difference that a tennis player cant play without a racket while makeup may be applied just as an addition instead of for the purpose of correcting anything. But you wont see such insinuation applied there not just because it is a far fetched idea or the difficulty in executing it but also because tennis players are not the target of common habit of having their existence fought as the other target here.
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