Is This Lipstick Promoting Statutory Rape?
The Twitterverse has been up in arms since yesterday evening, when writer Parker Molloy tweeted the following picture from a Sephora location.
Went shopping for some makeup. How on earth is this a lipstick color? pic.twitter.com/mJanAVKlAd
— Parker Marie Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 15, 2015
The tweet, which featured a shot of “Underage Red,” a lipstick color from tattoo artist’s Kat Von D makeup line, was then retweeted by Ana Marie Cox, another writer, who boasts 1.3 million followers, and boom! You’ve gone viral. People are enraged because they believe a name like “Underage Red” promotes or glorifies statutory rape. Kat Von D has faced similar issues with the names of her cosmetics, when in 2012, one of her lipsticks was named “Celebutard,” which people thought to be mocking people with disabilities. At the time, Sephora stopped selling that particular lipstick in their stores.
@anamariecox @ParkerMolloy Was Pedophile Pink nearby?
— Michael Buckelew (@MichaelBuckelew) March 15, 2015
@CaptEmoTrash @anamariecox @ParkerMolloy JESUS do they have a whole sex offender line?
— Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) March 15, 2015
@SuperScienceGrl @jlms_qkw @anamariecox @ParkerMolloy it’s disgusting that products marketed to women glorify statutory rape.
— Shayna (@SCJoson) March 16, 2015
While naming a lipstick “Underage Red,” may seem inappropriate, but jumping from a funky name to “promoting statutory rape” might be a bit much. After all, many women start wearing makeup before they turn 18, and are drawn to bolder colors like intense reds and pinks, because they want to be seen as more grown up. Although, did we learn nothing from Tai in Clueless who famously said, “I was talking to Josh, and we were discussing the difference between high school girls and college girls. The college girls wear less makeup on their face and that’s why guys like them more.” While women may favor more subtle colors, teen girls go wild for a bold bright lip and there’s nothing creepy or crime-inducing about that.
Sephora has yes to make a comment regarding this controversial lip color, but it’s likely that they will just yank it out of their stores. Which means that “Underage Red” will probably to turn into a must-have lipstick, and people will flock to eBay and pay insane amounts of money in order to get their hands on it. We all want what we can’t have.
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