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Editing the article Lipstick Feminism.

Original Article with my edits--

SECTION ONE seen below from Lipstick Feminism-- to "make up or stilettos." My edits for the first section are below.

Editing suggestions- Eliminate "could" be feminist. Change to "can" be feminist

Edit the sentence that says "would often take on physical characteristics and persona that was far from what the average woman looked like." This is not a factual statement because this would imply that there is a norm that "the average woman looks like."

Edit "Lipstick feminism embraces the concepts of womanhood and the female sexuality emitted from a woman body and the need to embrace sex." Lipstick feminism is about more than "sexuality emitting from a woman's body." Lipstick feminism also does not force women to embrace sex but rather to embrace their womanhood and the choice to have sex however they would like to.

(Original Text Below, Section 1)

Lipstick feminism is a variety of third-wave feminism that seeks to embrace traditional concepts of femininity, including the sexual power of women, alongside feminist ideas.

Unlike early feminist campaigns that focused on the basic fundamental rights of women, starting with the Women's Suffrage Movement, lipstick feminism seeks to ascertain that women could still be feminist without ignoring or negating their femininity, particularly in terms of sexuality. During the second wave of feminism, feminists had focused solely on legal and social equality of women and refused to 'embrace' their sexuality; some even abhorred the idea of men and would often take on physical characteristics and persona that was far from what the average woman looked like, thus creating stereotypes of what feminism and feminists looked like. Lipstick feminism, on the other hand, embraces the concepts of womanhood and the female sexuality emitted from a woman's body and the need to embrace sex. Lipstick feminism also seeks to reclaim certain derogatory words and turn them into powerful tools for their cause such as the word 'slut' as seen in the SlutWalk movement. It developed in part as a response to the ideological backlash against radical varieties of second-wave feminism, with the negative stereotypes it generated of the “ugly feminist” or the “anti-sex feminist”; in part the result of the belief that the successes of second-wave feminism had made it possible to reclaim aspects of femininity that had earlier been seen as disempowering, like make-up or stilettos.

There is a need to add LGBTQ individuals to this section:

-Part of lipstick feminism should included non gender conforming individuals who embrace their femininity by applying cosmetic products and performing beauty rituals. There is a large part of the population that is being blatantly ignored here, that gender roles play a role in and it is essential that it is addressed.

-The trans community needs to be included in this article as well because the act of empowering yourself through sexual practices and the presentation of self needs to be accessible to this group, and therefore they should be included in the definition of Lipstick feminism.

-Lipstick feminism needs to stem further than just the "good girl," "decent woman" "abnegated mother" "virtuous sister" etc.

-I believe that the critique section of Lipstick feminism should be immediately removed from the Overview section. The critique section starting at "Other feminists," is also an extremely gendered narrative particularly in the last sentence. "Sexual allure is a form of social power in the interpersonal relations between a man and a woman, which may occur in the realms of cultural, social and gender equality." This is an incredibly gendered sentence and ignores large swaths of the population that identify with Lipstick feminism such as the LGBTQ community.

-Sexual allure and interpersonal relations do not simply occur between men and women but also between trans individuals, non-conforming individuals as well as the lesbian, gay, queer communities.

Section 2 Edits:

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Linguistically, lipstick feminism proposed to semantically reclaim, for feminist usage, double-standard insult words, such as “slut”, in order to eliminate the social stigma applied to a woman whose sexual behaviour was "patriarchically" interpreted to denote “immoral woman” and libertine.

Overview[edit source]
Philosophically, lipstick feminism proposes that a woman can be empowered — psychologically, socially, politically – by the wearing of cosmetic make up, sensually-appealing clothes, and the embrace of sexual allure for her own self-image as a confidently sexual being. The rhetoric of choice and empowerment is used to validate such overt sexual practices, because they no longer represent coerced acquiescence to societally established gender roles, such as “the good girl”, “the decent woman”, “the abnegated mother”, “the virtuous sister”, et aliæ.

Other feminists object that the so-called empowerment of lipstick feminism is a philosophic contradiction wherein a woman chooses to sexually objectify herself, and so ceases to be her own woman, in control neither of her self nor of her person. In an ongoing debate, lipstick feminism counter-proposes that the practice of sexual allure is a form of social power in the interpersonal relations between a man and a woman, which may occur in the realms of cultural, social, and gender equality.

(Section 3) Original Text Below:

Stiletto feminism, a more ideologically radical variety of lipstick feminism, sees the postmodern use of fetish fashion as empowering; and extends the argument from the acceptance of makeup, to the validity of women practicing occupations specifically predicated upon female physical beauty, such as working as a striptease dancer or as a pole dancer, as well as flashing or lesbian (girl-on-girl) exhibitionism.

Edits for Stiletto Feminism--

Again this section is incredibly gendered. Lipstick feminism and stiletto feminism do not just concern women. "The acceptance of makeup, to the validity of women practicing occupations specifically predicated upon female physical beauty such as working as a striptease dancer or as a pole dancer as well as flashing or lesbian (girl-on-girl) exhibitionism." This sentence needs to be immediately revised to include the LGBTQ community. The acceptance of makeup, to the validity of women or individuals that identify as women practicing occupations specifically predicated upon the patriarchal standard of "female physical beauty or female presenting physical beauty." Ammend "Lesbian (girl-on-girl)" exhibitionism. Lesbianism is not an "occupation predicated upon female physical beauty.

Refrence:

Lipstick lesbian this article on Lipstick lesbianism, about how to address gendered content in this article to include the LGBTQ community.

In criticism it might be important to include knowledge that LGBTQ individuals still have the right to identify as lipstick feminists without conforming to all rigorous beauty standards that are expected of women. Accepting that both women and the LGBTQ community can still embrace their sexuality and identify as lipstick feminists without subjecting themselves to all said behaviors.

https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/20876203.html source