So yeah, I’d love to see this happen, but I can’t imagine having anything to author for at least a few months.

If it became the norm for men to wear makeup, it would just lead to the attitude that men’s makeup is better than women’s makeup.

I kind of addressed that, but here’s the thing…I get the impression that often, when something is a mixed bag of disadvantages and advantages and has previously been assigned to a less privileged group, when the privileged group takes it on, they get rid of many of the disadvantages–and make it “cool” to have a version that truly is better!

For example, purses…the better version is a messenger bag / laptop bag. Had women been doing ugly, practical one-shoulder bags long before they caught on with European men? Yes. But could a professional woman look promotable sporting one? Not until men decided they were a great idea to carry.

Unfair that it took men to popularize an improvement upon the pretty purse? Yes. But still an improvement for all? Yes.
 
 
I don’t think your scenario–where men invent a brand new “purse” out of nowhere–is nearly as likely for things that have already existed assigned to women for a long time. That is, “feminine” things.

Makeup has been around as a mixed bag of blessing & burden for a long time…and I can’t imagine you can come up w/ much more to improve it. Someone probably already tried it and sold it to a few hippie women who were willing to buck judgment. I can’t imagine men inventing a new makeup that’s solely for them as much as popularizing a better makeup (perhaps a lighter one) that women will finally be allowed to wear without harsh judgment, too.
 
 
What do you think?