cliffovevo:

seals-cats-and-random-stuff:

sheabutterbitch:

Someone on here once pointed out how whenever beauty vloggers on youtube do those, “my boyfriend does my makeup” challenges; the guy never seems to know what he’s doing, he doesn’t know what contouring is or highlighting and everyone thinks he’s just being a dude but really it shows that he obviously doesn’t watch his girlfriend’s videos that she’s clearly passionate about making, if he can’t understand something as simple as a primer and that really sucks

I also think about how wild it is that women get mocked and made fun of for pretending to be interested in sports and other things that are typically understood as male interests, and it seems like we’re the weird ones for doing that, but it’s crazy how there’s no pressure on men to be interested in, or at least understand anything considered feminine, like, wouldn’t you want to have knowledge about something your significant other is interested in?

I see memes where the guy is shopping for what to get his girlfriend and someone suggests a highlighter and dude goes out and gets sharpie highlighters! Then people think it’s hilarious, because he’s just a guy being a dude y'know but if a girl doesn’t know shit about basketball, or football, or video games, or cars, or comics or whatever else she’s an idiot

Here’s another angle on this:

The guy knows exaclty what he is doing. He might not be an expert but he could apply a basic face of makeup to himself or anyone else.
But that’s a “girl thing”, and if dudebros on the internet know that he can do that then he will be seen as Gay™, so he pretends to be utterly fucking clueless and pretends not to have watched any of his girlfriend’s videos, because toxic masculinity means it’s better to make a fool of yourself by not being able to do something than to admit to the world that you can do it.

I actually totally think this could be a valid issue for men! Thanks for this opinion/angle!