According to the Guardian columnist William Leith, the Clinique Concealer is the first step down the slippery slope of insecurity and he is talking about men.
Concealer is a symbolic step-change. It's not about enhancing what you've got. Concealer is about pretence. It's about wanting to look unworn, untested, smooth and blameless. It's about denial
It is a long essay and I got bored after a bit but the concealer bit was fun reading and then when he talks about a woman's view of sperm cloning and why its a good thing
The even scarier thing about sperm cloning is what people say about it. A woman I talked to typified the reaction. 'Well,' she said, 'now women will be able to have children with other women, and breed out all those adaptive male genes.'
'What?' I said.
'All the killer genes that ruin the world, and the shagger genes that ruin relationships.'
'I see.'
'Because there's no need for those genes any more. We've evolved beyond them.'
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