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Our paper also puts out a publication called, HER Magazine. Three very attractive and fashion conscious ladies work in the HER office. This office is so filled with makeup, frilly clothing, girly things, and estrogen that I can feel my voice rise half and octave anytime I take a trouble call there. If you look close, you could probably see the testosterone leaching through my skin.
I had to run updates on their workstations, so I picked a time when they’d be out of the office. As I sat watching a download bar s-l-o-w-l-y get longer I happened to notice a work file left on the desk. There was a photo of a well sculpted man, probably in his mid-twenties, staring creepily (I’m sure the girls would have said dreamily) at the viewer. He had a perfect 2-week stubble on his chiseled, dimpled chin. Yeah, I know you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but I’d be shocked speechless to find this guy would even look twice at a girl. The sticky note attached to it showed that it was the be the art for an article entitled, “Manscaping.” There followed a pseudo dictionary entry of the term with phonetic spelling and definition. Believe me, you don’t want to know.
I took another sticky note and wrote out an entry for the definition of “Gayifacation,” and left it attached to the photo as well. Only enough, my submission never made it to print.

You make a statement with the face you present to the world. It's not so much the makeup as it is the fact that the makeup is an in your face affront to current norms and mores. I think that is what many of the members here are reacting too. And reasonably so in my opinion.