“Well apparently, the Gemora says there was more than one reason. Not sure why this got such a sarcastic reaction from you…”
Really? Maybe because I am tired of all the ills of Klal Yisroel continuously being attributed to something that WOMEN have done. Every bad thing that happens apparently is because of something women are or are not doing. I don’t buy it. Men need to take responsibility for their actions that are delaying Mashiach from coming.
The Gemarah clearly states that it was sinas chinam that was responsible for the Churban. To make a moral equivalency between the wearing of cosmetics by womem (whose nature is to want to wear cosmetics to look pretty)with the extreme evil of sinas chinam, is unfair, to say the least. Even if a rov in the Gemarah said such a thing about women, I would rather be in a roomful of women wearing a lot of makeup, than with even one nasty-minded person.
Somehow, in my heart I believe Hashem cares much less about lipstick, than people’s interactions. The many halachos we have referring to mitzvos bein adam l’chaveiro would seem to validate the idea that He very much cares about people who are mean to each other, enough to have destroyed our B”HM because of those actions.