[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Cosmic Eyelash Rule (was Small rant about cosmetics' ads)

[Jamieson Wolf Villeneuve]

Amy Z wrote:

> So how did it come about that women are supposed to have long, full
> eyelashes and men are supposed to have practically invisible ones?

Actually, from what I can remember, long and full eyelashes came around
in medevil times to prevent womans tears from flowing. The idea being
that with all that black stuff around their eyes, it would 'block' the
tears. Aparently women cried a lot in those times?

Just something my Mum told me...

Jamieson

--
"Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life.
Can you give it to them? Then
do not be too eager to deal out death
in judgement." - Gandalf (The Fellowship
of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien)

--

Transported to a surreal landscape,
a young girl kills the first woman she
meets and thenteams up with three complete
strangers to kill again. - Marin County
newspaper's TV listing for
The Wizard of Oz

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