Make up, saving face

After discussions with my sisters, who each have distinct world views, about makeup I found their reasons to be for social  purposes (feeling like they need to wear it) and for aesthetics, (feeling fresh, skin care and protection), that make up is a cover, make up is socialized and a girl will use it to fit in, and recently having a beard I note the following observation:
      Makeup can "make up" for other modesty losses in a modesty contest with other women. cultures less blinded by materialism and industry realize a man can also be a commodity, covered in his case with a beard or mustache. Make up is part of sexualization and not just puberty; ie the burka/hijab. Many make ups contain metals and should not be used as a topical serum.
      A man's beard can function as make up. In some cultures it is given religious significance. In the native American tradition a man can't grow a beard, so the hair of his head became full of meaning, me would pluck every hair out with tweezers. Sampson's hair was given meaning, and even today a man is socialized to have hair that is short, but to make up for it with wearing nice collared and accessorized shirts (ties), brands and etc. hats and sunglasses are also in the mix. As a result, a man with nicer things is given benevolence
      We wear make up for social purposes (men do, especially if on the news) and it shows a commoditization that comes from sexual awareness.  I'm not representing anyone, so if you have ideas about who I could share this with let me know, thank you! comments and etc. are also appreciated. Thank you for joining me on this thought romp.
 

Missionary PTSD?

Do I (did I) have ptsd? Obviously it’s not just soldiers who can get post traumatic stress disorder, anyone having trauma, (trauma in German means “dream”) can gave the disorder. In the LDS community we serve missions, some do and some don’t. Some volunteer, others are expected. In the mission community are heard similar things that I imagine I would hear in the military, missionaries earn “attractive wife points” for enduring physical or mental struggle. Missionaries live out of a suitcase, they could be assigned for six weeks in the mission to do anything, anywhere, (I guess they wouldn’t be assigned to just clean.) We did it for our family, our future spouse, and as a volunteer living in Florida, for my country. I’ll describe the emotions of a dream around two years I had after being back.  This time it was real, all the other dreams, even the recurring one that now seemed comfortable, were just that, dreams. I’d had to take a break, a new protocol, but whatever had been keeping me, after a year I was back. Even in a restaurant the sense of duty rested on me, I was a missionary, but there were problems, a car broke down, the other missionaries were non-operating. I sat writing a letter- just one more year, then I’d be done with it.

I awoke and found that all of my emotions were just another set of repressions. It was more than 6 months later- I hadn’t been first asked about my mission, or thought of as a return missionary for months. I’m not the only one who had this type of dreams. A married man who I worked early morning custodial with relayed having had dreams that he was back.

I have dreams I’m in high school, in the marching band, but there more comfortable; though I was viewed weak by some there was that year where I took the time off, enjoyed football games in the stands with my friends, played basketball with them even after school. Then the season ended as well. I recently had a mission dream with a visit from a family member. It was a good dream.

Changing majors?

I’m hoping that to fill some internship time I can get credit for a year’s experience working in a rehabilitation clinic. Knowing sociology, however, where in the intro class students are asked to go around and violate a social norm and take notes, (I didn’t go intro here so I’m not beholden) I think I’d sooner get credit for being in jail. (I would be glad to come back and edit this!)

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Intentionality is a b/#/#t!

Yenor "Family Politics" post1 identity

The idea of choice in the giving of one’s identity is admittedly a hard- to- consider concept in a world that doesn’t allow one to hide their identity and get by, eg: an adolescent’s failure to launch, but in the idea of “sublimating” what is independent and established to make a new reality there is quite a bit of text supporting the idea. The bible says: for this purpose shall a man leave his father and mother, (to be one flesh). An example showing the truth in the “Deep and lasting ties”, even the mystery of conjugal union Yenor describes (conjugal union: the love of one's own), the popular 90’s show “Boy Meets World”, in an episode where the protagonists’ school teacher George Feeney, an older than middle aged man, is observed to be preparing for a date creates a moment where the mystery is described. In the episode Mr. Feeney sets out plates and a candle to set the mood. Soon a call is received and the second plate and the candles are removed from the table. The next day the protagonist asks his teacher about the event. It turns out it was a dinner date with Mr. Feeney’s sister. Mr. Feeney goes on to say that he would like to find someone and the boy asks why. Mr. Feeney uses the boy’s parents as an example saying, they “made the choice to enter into the relationship that brought you into the realm of possibility; choosing to explore the unbounded potential that could result from their union” (paraphrase). The end of the episode hopefully shows the old teacher asking a co-worker out to dinner. So the song goes, “Peace and plenty there abide, smiling sweet on every side”, and “there is joy in every sound, when there’s love at home”. As David Hume points out in the quote on page 7 of Yenor’s book, if there are problems in family the consequences can be severe. “Distrust and mediocrity there abide”, the details of which are also hard to explain. The jaded world of marriage may shy away from marriage and family’s deeper meaning, but an understanding of that deeper meaning is worth the look. Feel free to comment!

Journal

I'm going through some papers. As I have so many memories of where I was, fresh (now) year old paper bearing the marks I made on it. I know that my messages are in store in some server miles away and travel here on the wires of this place, but having the paper matters! Yes, It's true I'm more materialistic than I used to be. Maybe that's a part of growing up-