Guys would you wear makeup to succeed in the workplace?

[MovingTarget]

Nope. It would feel too....unnatural for me. I'm honestly surprised at the number of women that wear it just to go to the grocery store, much less a special event or job interview. It can accentuate good features or eliminate some flaws, but it isn't drywall spackle.

 

[OverVolt]

Are you seriously suggesting Americans play more games than Koreans?

It doesn't have the same looser stigma as it does here. For how much people knock it, alot of people do it anyway. What is so sissy about wearing makeup in a culture where "appearance is power." For men.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[spidey07]

I really want to hurt you.
I really want to make you cry.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I don't think people in American really understand exactly what it takes to get a job in Korea these days. So many people in Korea are overqualified to do even the most specialized things because such a large amount of people go to higher learning.. Its 2 decades of extensive schooling, brutal exams, and even a more brutal work environment.

When EVERYONE is smart, you go to the next best thing, personal looks.

S.Korea is a very. . . material place, full of merchandising and very focused on being what society tells you to be. I personally would NOT want to put on makeup, but when you're in that much competition for jobs, women, and really any for of recognition, you do anything to get ahead.

 

[0roo0roo]

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I think this image is just bad lighting.

 

[SlitheryDee]

We wear all kinds of unnecessary shit to succeed in the workplace. We think nothing of it because it is what everyone else does as well. If everyone else was wearing makeup and it was getting them ahead in life I think we would too. Thank god we live in a patriarchal society where men have defined their grooming necessities to be considerably less rigorous than what is required of females. These men who have taken it upon themselves to raise the bar for masculine hygiene and grooming should be considered as nothing less than traitors. They're just adding to what is already a mountain of useless effort spent making relatively little improvement in our appearance.

 

[Leros]

As a software developer, I would probably get less respect if I looked nicer.

 

[shabby]

I think this image is just bad lighting.

Totally... just look at this example.

 

[wirednuts]

I don't wear makeup or jewelry of any kind.

i dont even have tatoos for that reason. im just not the type of guy who wants to add things to look cooler. some people have tats because they want the reminder of something, and i appreciate that. i just dont like the fact that most people get them to look stylish... it bugs me.

 

[wirednuts]

Nope. It would feel too....unnatural for me. I'm honestly surprised at the number of women that wear it just to go to the grocery store, much less a special event or job interview. It can accentuate good features or eliminate some flaws, but it isn't drywall spackle.

ha... it only looks like drywall spackle when youre sober

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Years ago I was very tempted. My acne is pretty minor now. I do have some scar tissue on my face (not acne related) that is oddly inflamed today, however, and have considered putting a small dollop on it.

I have transvestite fantasies fwiw.

 

[mmntech]

I work in the broadcast industry but I'm not on-air. If I was gunning for an on camera position, of course I would. It's mandatory, or you'll look shiny under studio lights. However, it's a world where appearance matters a lot. For a general office job, probably not.

Korea is sort of a strange place. They're making Japan's wacky pop culture look normal by comparison. So I'm not surprised by this. It's the same country that people get plastic surgery on their eyelids in droves.

 

[amdhunter]

I'd wear makeup, miniskirt, knee high pantyhose, garter and crotchless thongs if it would help me succeed more at work.

 

[shortylickens]

I'd wear makeup, miniskirt, knee high pantyhose, garter and crotchless thongs if it would help me succeed more at work.

It wouldnt.
But I wouldnt mind seeing that in any case!

:awe:

 

[0roo0roo]

Totally... just look at this example.

lol that eps...

wonder if they got around to converting that eps into hd yet...

 

[Phoenix86]

It doesn't have the same looser stigma as it does here. For how much people knock it, alot of people do it anyway. What is so sissy about wearing makeup in a culture where "appearance is power." For men.

First, I wasn't really responding to the sissy comments.

Second, to compare cultures as different as this is pointless. Just because it's ok there is moot when compared to how people here would feel about it. Might as well ask why is capital punishment ok here but not elsewhere? Simple, because it's acceptable here (in places) and not there.

Finally, in the US, only women and a very very small population wear makeup (those in front of cameras). It's really not much different than going out in drag. You pretty much answered your own question in bold.

Why are you so sensitive about this?