OMG I remember why I don't wear makeup. I just went out on the real internetz looking for eyeshadow tips and wow, there sure is a lot of racism! I feel nauseated now. It's all so fraught. I think I'll buy a firewood splitter instead.

I just went out on the real internetz looking for eyeshadow tips and wow, there sure is a lot of racism!

Ugh, sorry.

Maybe cute guy just wanted an excuse to talk to you, ita.

Well, he was holding a bag of trash at the time, so it was a crafty plan.

I just went out on the real internetz looking for eyeshadow tips and wow, there sure is a lot of racism!

Urgh. To bump into it while looking for makeup tips is startling. I mean, people suck, but I'd like to think one can know when to brace oneself.

Yikes, Liese! Sorry about that.

I am glad you mentioned it.

Yeah, I'm glad I did, and glad the rest of the comments (so far) are just condolences.

Ugh, say what, Liese?!

I mean, buy a splitter if that's what you want, my dearest, but I imagine you tried to get some tips on best application tips for eye shapes, or foundations for all skin tones, and got whipsmacked with charming terms for women of Asian ancestry?

Makeup ladies are perhaps not the smartest brushes in the jar. Anything you want to know, you ask here, and I'll vet sites for you.

Stupid prejudice shouldn't take away anyone's delightful forays in self-decoration.

It was kinda amazing, and I guess I should have known better, but man. There was Orientalism fetish stuff, there was a blog entry entitled "Yellow mongrel is back" about how the existence of cosmetic surgery meant that {slur term} are self-hating, since "they are the most self-absorbed self-hating group" the blogger has ever seen. On a Discovery pseudo-scientific blog. And then there was this really bizarre section where the blogger argued that Nazism was on the rise in Japan, and cited photographic evidence that Japanese people a) have white skin and b) wear Nazi costumes (from a cosplay event). The people arguing with him argued with exciting different racial slurs. Lots of stuff on plastic surgery.

And then there was a propaganda editorial from Time in the 40's. Ask me how that came up in a makeup search, go on, ask me. Epicanthic fold. It's how you tell your enemy the Japanese from the honorable Chinese. I'm pretty unclear on how that would work, but okay.

And, there was one awesome female blogger whose post was entitled "You can kiss my epicanthic fold." about how everybody could just fuck off with their Caucasian-centric standards of beauty and she looked just fine, thank you, although not like all the generic Asian celebrities she was constantly compared to.

That sucks. Hard.

So my SIL just called and she's going to be in Ohio this weekend, and invited me to come out to see her and the boys. But: it is a 7 hour trip, I'd have to scramble for the cats, my car REALLY needs to be checked out before I drive that far (it is 13 years old and I haven't had anything checked in a couple years and last time? Emergency clutch job in Buffalo,) I flinch at making drop everything trips at such short notice, I'll see them all in a couple months. So I kinda want to but also think timing is just bad.

"You can kiss my epicanthic fold."

That's pretty damned sweet.

Oh, Opera, why do you not have epicanthic in your dictionary?

Does it have epicanthal? Because I saw that too, but I think that's wrong. epicanthic. Yeah, I guess Firefox doesn't either.

t volunteers to kiss Liese's epicanthic fold