Feminist Cheng Chih-hui believes that people aren't encouraged to meet frankly with each other in our society any more anyway. Under assault by the modern Western concept that "it's not polite not to make up," the fine old Chinese story of "meeting the emperor in a plain face" is no longer suitable.
婦女運動者鄭至慧則認為，這個社會好像本來也就不鼓勵人們坦誠相見；古代女子「素顏朝天子」的千古佳話，在現代西方「不化妝就不禮貌」的衝擊下已不再適用，而美容不過像是「把妝永遠畫在臉上」，它的「虛假」程度，其實也不比化妝嚴重多少。