Watch Tracy Spicer give a wonderful TED Talk about the pressures society puts on women to look a certain way. She explains that women spend an average of 3,276 hours of their lives grooming. Men spend a third of that primping themselves.
“Imagine what we could achieve if we weren’t beholden to society’s unreasonable expectations about how we should look,” Spicer says. In the amount of time it takes every year grooming, women could learn another language or get a degree. The sky is the limit to what women could accomplish with that time.
The best part of the talk is when Spicer decides to “deconstruct” the image of what women should look like. She takes out cleansing wipes and removes her makeup. Then she takes off her dress to reveal a comfortable tank top and shorts. Next, the shoes come off.
Spicer says it’s uncomfortable wearing all that stuff. “I don’t like wearing 2 inches of makeup.”