Wear It, Bitch

I was referred to an article recently:

Wear It, Bitch

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. Posted January 12, 2005.

This is about a woman who got fired at Harrah's, sued them and she lost the case. Which is why the article is titled, "Wear it, b1tch", meaning that is the real message of the judges.

I liked this line: Now that the most liberal circuit court in the land has paved the way, I can just imagine the proposed federal legislation: no woman shall appear in public without covering her face.

I mean, what is the difference between a US court forcing women to wear make-up and a mullah asking women to cover their face with veil?

Yet, there is another side to the question too: what is the difference between an employer requiring women to wear makeup and an employer enforcing a dress-code at the work place?

Yet another question: would Harrah's have fired this employee if she looked very good without makeup? So, the question was not really about makeup, the question was about measuring upto the kind of looks the employers expected employees to possess. Going by that logic, it's not an unusual thing. Models and actresses routinely lose assignments when the people who hire them decide they no longer look suitable to endorse the product or play the role.

Bottomline: if you chose the kind of job where looks is one of the criteria for employment, don't crib if you are fired for not looking good enough.