The tl;dr version of the previous post

[textualdeviance]

Dear The World

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[textualdeviance]

No, that's definitely not the issue. The problem isn't in the identities themselves, but in how some people execute them

[noveldevice]

So what is your solution for example 2? You don't want to stop Sandy from wearing makeup, you want to ensure the right of other women not to...how?

[textualdeviance]

Pretty easy: she makes a point of purchasing stuff from companies that don't do sexist advertising. There are quite a few indie cosmetics companies out there that don't do the awful stuff the big guys do. And the bonus is usually that they're more environmentally friendly/not tested on animals, etc.

Shopping mindfully is probably one of the easiest--and in large scale, most effective--things an average person can do to make the world a better place. Sometimes there aren't good alternatives for something, and sometimes life's just too busy to research everything you buy, but there are almost always a few better choices folks can make. I'm hardly perfect about it myself, but I do try to make better choices when I can: organic, local, not from homophobic companies, etc.

I'm really looking forward to the app Darcy Burner wants to develop: scan a product's bar code and it tells you how "blue" the company is.