Women Wearing Makeup - Sexist Makeup Tax

Women Wearing Makeup - Sexist Makeup Tax | National Review Online:
IT’S COME TO THIS: The Fact that Most Women Wear Makeup Is Now Being Called a Sexist ‘Makeup Tax.’

Huh — I thought the left likes more and more taxes. If the “makeup tax” is bad, please tell me more about what other taxes you’d like to cut along with it.

(Headline via Hot Air.)

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Posted at 5:01 pm by Ed Driscoll 
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"The fact that most women spend more time and money on beauty products than men do isn’t just a reflection of the two sexes’ different priorities — it’s now being called a “makeup tax” and “another form of pay inequality.”
The discussion began when Facebook staffer Libby Brittain asked about it during Hillary Clinton’s July 20 Facebook Q&A:
Every morning, as my boyfriend zips out the door and I spend 30+ minutes getting ready, I wonder about how the ‘hair-and-makeup tax’ affects other women — especially ones I admire in high-pressure, public-facing jobs.
Clinton attempted to look really cool in her reply (it literally began with “Amen, sister!”) but she didn’t actually answer the question about whether or not she considered it a “tax.”
...For example, one piece titled “Women’s health is taxed by makeup, too,” in a liberal blog called Treehugger, explains that the burden goes beyond time and money.
“There’s another way that women pay the makeup tax, one that’s much harder to quantify,” the author, Margaret Badore, continues. “I’m taking (sic) about the price women pay with their health in the pursuit of looking ‘put together.’”...