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At the same time that quote about makeup kind of showed his ass, because it kind of laid bare he doesn't really know anything about makeup or why woman (and men) have used it (including lipstick) for centuries.

Ditto with those comments about high heels improving posture and emphasizing one's hips and breasts. Were Peterson aware of the histories of fashion or makeup, he would realize that both of those inventions/fashion trends were male centric until very recently. High heeled boots made their debut in martial horsemanship in Western Europe and wearing them outside of military contexts was akin to men wearing camo or dogtags in casual contexts today. A low key boast of one's martial prowess.

Makeup too, was used much in the way women use it now, to hide skin blemishes, and emphasize certain facial features. Also for the theater, which is likely where most non-wealthy people would have seen it used. Of course it wasn't women who wore make up, but men. Women wearing makeup was provocative and pretty much only seen on prostitutes. Most forms of makeup didn't break into the scene as a cosmetic commodity for women until the 1950's. Then there's the reasons both men and women use make up, which has increasingly less to do with seducing men and more to do with hiding insecurities and cultivating and maintaining a certain self-image.

Peterson doesn't know any of that, or else he would have chosen a more nuanced example, or at least taken pains to avoid reducing the use of makeup in modern society as one of the 'feminine wiles' women wield use to seduce men towards moral peril. These are all things Peterson ought to have known before going down the path he chose, or at the very least he should have known he was on thin ice speculating. But he's not intellectually honest enough to stop himself from talking about things he knows nothing about or even to premise that he might be out of his depth. He's too much of a diva.
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