makeup is inanimate and thus cannot contribute to sexual harassment
That is an idiotic argument. It's not the makeup that causes the sexual harassment you dolt. It's the reactions that it causes.
Just like walking down a dark street in a bad part of town isn't inviting getting mugged, but it does contribute to that action happening. If you're serious about not getting mugged, you probably can't really claim it if you're doing that action.
It'd be best if there was no reaction from men, that would be the best outcome to the makeup scenario. Unfortunately, we live in reality and there are things that affect human behavior, whether it be sexual harassment, theft, murder, or any number of other things.
please stop defending sexual harassment by males towards women. a woman is not a hypocrite if she decides to wear makeup to work and not be sexually harassed for it
if you are so base that a woman's makeup precludes you from acting decently to her then you need to not be in a workplace. period. employers cannot afford liabilities like you
i say that as an employer
For 99.9% of men, it's not an issue. If you're a woman and want to protect yourself against the 0.1%, you might want to consider not wearing makeup. It's not an "all men issue", it's a very small subset of men that behave like that, but looking at contributing factors is not a victim blaming exercise.
Stop being so fucking dumb.