In the "traditional" world of Bill O'Reilly's fevered imagination, demure women love a falafel infused breast massage and macho men never wear make-up because that suggests drag queens, transgenderism, and all that non-hetero-normative stuff that makes O'Reilly's already inflated, giant head explode. During last night's "Is it Legal" segment, Bill and his legal eagles, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lis Wiehl discussed a South Carolina teen's lawsuit against his local DMV for their refusal to issue him a license until he removed his make-up. Not surprisingly, the muy macho O'Reilly sided with the DMV cuz guys don't wear make-up, don't ya know!
Bill reported the backstory of how the DMV forced Chase Culpepper to remove his make-up because "we want to have a clean picture of you as a guy, cuz you are a guy." He noted that "now there is a big lawsuit." Wiehl felt that the DMV's requirement was highly discriminatory. O'Reilly interjected with some trademark inanity: "If you're a police officer and this is on your license, you get a crew cut, Chase might go into the Marines." (WTF?) When Wiehl asserted that women wear make-up, O'Reilly shouted "baloney, he's a boy, he goes in, he's gotta be looked at as a male."
Guilfoyle had Bill's backside (ewww) when she said that the DMV doesn't permit people to alter their physical appearance which is certainly not the case here. Bill shouted "that's right" as Guilfoyle defended the DMV's requirement that you can't have a photo that drastically alters your appearance. A photo of Culpepper, in make-up, was shown. Suffice to say that he wasn't sporting Kiss make-up, but wearing basic (and very well applied) make-up that didn't change his facial features.
Wiehl said that this was no different from a woman applying make-up for a license photo. O'Reilly responded, "he's not a woman, Lis, did that occur to you." O'Reilly made some sort of spitting sound when she said that this is "sexual discrimination." Bill shouted "this is so ridiculous, he's a male and he walks in in his natural state." Good little rightwing fembot Guilfoyle made the ludicrous analogy between Culpepper's make-up and her donning a fake beard. O'Reilly mental circuit board was definitely overheating because his only retort, leveled at Wiehl, was "you're crazy." He predicted that the Culpepper can sue and "will probably win, you know these pin-head judges."
So I guess that Bill O'Reilly is trying to alter his splotchy, blotchy face with the make-up that is obviously applied quite generously before his nightly bloviations? But hopefully, he'll be sporting his real man visage when he goes to the DMV.
And I say a REAL man doesn’t sexually harass his subordinates, doesn’t send toadies out to stalk HIS critics and doesn’t try to get his children’s mother excommunicated from church while making a mockery of the established custody agreement by moving his children’s supposedly neutral therapist into his house.
And the hair metal bands in the 80s was largely theatrical to a degree, but I know some of the groups’ lead singers did admit to wearing eyeliner and lip blush (or full-out lipstick) on a daily basis rather than just “for the show.” The more outlandish looks (such as Dee Snider’s from Twisted Sister that more closely resembled “traditional” war paint) were definitely for theater but quite a few of guys did wear simple makeup out in public.
BTW, today is Bill-O’s birthday. Maybe he’ll be in a better mood than usual?
But really, I don’t get it. If a woman’s allowed to wear makeup for her driver’s license, then guys should also be allowed. It’s not like cops are confused when they stop a woman wearing green eye shadow and a pinkish orange blush and her license shows her with brown eye shadow and cinnamon brown blush. A cop won’t be confused if the eye color listed is “blue” but the person’s wearing green contacts. And what about those of us who wear corrective lenses? I occasionally wear contact lenses but usually wear glasses so I prefer to have my picture taken without glasses. It hasn’t caused problems when I’ve been stopped. Hell. What happens when/if I change the frames? Will the cops be confused because I go from wire-rimmed to tortoise-shell frames?
As Priscilla noted—as long as the make-up isn’t KISS-level or looks like something from FaceOff (pic exampls at http://thechive.com/2014/04/25/there-very-best-makeup-designs-from-the-reality-tv-show-face-off-47-photos/ ), then I don’t see the problem. Except for right-wing conservatives. (Decades after Boy George, Phil Oakey of the Human League and the whole hair-metal onslaught and we’ve still got people who can’t get over the idea of men wearing makeup.)
