Anyone else finding the BearFaced campaign deeply depressing?

[tweetytwitcher]

Specifically the way that it treats the concept of an un-made-up woman as so unusual, almost like a freak-show. Something outrageous that you do to raise money, while at the same time the women involved blather on about empowerment.

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

Ridiculous.

I haven't worn makeup for about 20 years - maybe I should backdate my sponsorship?

[tweetytwitcher]

Exactly. If it's so special I want a medal every bloody morning. Except I don't, I don't want anyone to look at me or anyone else and think 'ooooh she's not wearing make up'. Either in a positive or negative way. I want to it to be utterly unremarkable.

[Trills]

It encourages people to confuse "bare" and "bear".

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

Yes. Apparently the "Bear" part is about wanting women to wear paw marks on their faces. Not about them looking like bears without makeup, oh no...

What a load of bollocks.

[summerflower]

Agree, it is ridiculous on so many levels. Not least because the model on the BBC webpage for this (which I have just looked at) clearly has make up on and also looks airbrushed.

[maybenow]

ahahahahahahahahah - hahahahaha - sorry, i can't quite get over how ridiculous it would be if i asked people to sponsor me to not wear make up..... hahahahaha.......

i can't even get people to sponsor me to run anything less than a full marathon because they know i run for fun anyway...

[Alameda]

what is it? I never wear make up but don't look anything like as nice as a bear :(

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

Children In Need, Alameda. Apparently women not wearing make up is SO radical that it deserves to be sponsored. I'm going to go tweet about it.

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Another one here who thinks this is bollocks. So depressing.

[Alameda]

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[MrsMangoBiscuit]

I'm confused, what is mascara and highlighter if not make-up?

Friday the 9th I'm off work, you'd have to sponsor me TO wear make up for me to even consider it that day. Same goes for getting dressed!

[Alameda]

mascara and lip balm = huge personal effort, rarely undertaken

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

There's plenty of pro tweets on Twitter about it with #bearfaced. Let's balance things a bit.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

I like it. Let's face it, the only women worth sponsoring will be those who wear loads of make up. Why not get them to try a day without and raise some money for charity at the same time?

[Alameda]

I don't get it though? Who wears that much makeup in real life anyway?

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Not me. In fact I'm increasingly thinking that this real life business is overrated.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

Loads of women wear tonnes of slap. I have worked with quite a few. Thing is, after very little time in my company they tend not to bother.

Dione the Diabolist: looking like a homeless person since 1993.

[Alameda]

I might, if it didn't make me look like a man in drag?

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

I will also not be wearing a peacock costume, eating a live aardvark or cooking over a candle on Friday. Same old, same old.

You all owe me £1 for each of the above, though.

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

It's the implication that not wearing makeup is somehow radically against the norm that bothers me. And I know that for plenty of women wearing makeup is the norm, but that's not the point - they're equally valid choices.

[PickledFanjoCat]

It's daft. I don't know hardly anyone who wears make up regularly I wear it about two or three times a year.

I should volunteer to wear make up for charity.

[EmpressOfTheSevenRomanCandles]

Maybe they should just be getting women to buy & wear their fake pawprint tattoos & make the money from that.

[LaundryFairy]

Whole thing seems ludicrous to me - like it is meant to bean an act of heroic bravery for a woman to go out in public without makeup! Aren't there other, more useful things that we could be sponsoring people to do?

[Anniegetyourgun]

Snatch, you've got it on its head. We don't owe you because you're not wearing a peacock costume; you owe CiN for the privilege of being seen in public not wearing one. Er, I think.

Someone would have to pay me to go to the trouble of putting make-up on. I do it for job interviews and probably would if ever invited to the Queen's garden party, but that's about it. They'd get short shrift if they tried to charge me for not wearing it. Like the people did who wanted to charge me for wearing my own jeans on a Friday, like I did every Friday anyway.

Here's a radical idea. Why don't they try sponsoring people to do something useful?

[Anniegetyourgun]

Damn, cross-posted. What LaundryFairy said.