Can male soldiers wear lipstick, earrings and ripped clothes while off duty, but on post?

While, yes policy states that males can’t wear earrings on post, they’re obviously wearing make up. So if my math is correct, they’re trans. Just live and let live until they’re wearing their uniforms then correct the living hell out of them.

Lord have mercy. I'm sitting here totally stunned by these discussion topics. Lipstick, earrings, flaming individuals, gender officially changed by DEERS? Are these issues Company Commanders and 1SG's have to deal with today?

The problem is that you ultimately cannot extend a benefit to one group/gender etc without extending it to everyone (or barring everyone from it). For example. If Sheiks are permitted to wear beards, other people like Nazarene Christians can demand long hair, beards etc. You either apply same rules - restrictions to everyone or permit it for everyone. That's equality.

My thoughts on the question are not 'Can' a male soldier wear lipstick, etc., etc., but 'WHY' he would want to..
Color me Old and out of touch...

Sounds like this may be related to the transgender policy. At best the earrings may be a violation, as far as I know lipstick and the rest are valid.

Let this private propose a situation as devils advocate where I am the enemy OK? Maybe I'm a middle eastern soldier, or Chinese or Korean . The sight of a charging soldier screaming bloody hell with a look of fire in their eyes in a Donna Karan mini and earnings and complimentary lipstick would probably make me shit my pants. I mean really. The idea is laughable but think of that poor bastards mind trying to encompass a deviant killing machine! As to rules and regs I never met any thatI couldn't politic my way around. That is a good thing about the American Soldier, adapt, improvise, overcome.

the military should have some guidelines or codes of clothing conduct when off duty on or off base. Tattoos have ruined the professional image of the military. When people look like wall, paper or sign boards, they don't look professional.

I wouldn't allow It! If you are In the military you represent the military on or off duty.

Well I for one am damn glad I got out when I did and didn't have to deal with these Goth individuals or whatever they call themselves! In my book they can do this stuff around the end of October and that's it!

I can remember a E-5 corpsman, almost 40 yr ago, terribly aggravated & hurt by being told to remove his thin hoop earring while in uniform. He stuck what looked like a piece of stalk from broom thru his earlobe; personally, I thought he was still outta uniform.
I too cannot understand why people would volunteer to be part of ostensibly a strict rules-&-regulations institution like the armed forces; then steadily look for ways to contravene the rules. I was hardly a paragon of military bearing; but I simply believed that my job was to keep the ship on course, on the ready, on time, & to keep the crew safe. & I believed my time off-post was to make sure I was ready to do just that at a moment's notice & that my family was ready too.