Ugliness as a Tool of Social Control

[Anomalocaris]

Sounds like a dressed up maid fantasy to me.  If I were looking to resist an invader I think I'd spend my beauty product budget on bullets.  The reason that you see dirty cities run by tyrants has nothing to do with any active plot to deprive their lives of beauty so as to better subdue them.  They're alrweady subdued.  It's because the tyrant pockets the cash that services would require....usually to buy bullets.....

Not that I have anything against clean streets and pretty women, but it seems like the kind of detail you focus on after you've expelled an invader, and it's certainly not a precondition to your rights.

Depends on the tyrant.    Mao’s China clearly made concerted effort to break down any outward distinctions between individuals, social origins and sex and dress literally everyone, men and women, old and young alike, in identical green, faintly military style but baggy uniforms, but uniforms that are also devoid of rank insignia, piping, badges, or other means of individual and collective distinction, or expression.   During that era any hint of cosmetics on a women will earn her an expenses paid multi-month journey to an re-education camp. 

The same,  magnified by several orders of magnitude, prevailed in pol pot’s Cambodia. 

Many of the leftist revolutionary movements during 1960-1980d inspired by Maoism in Latin America, Africa, and Oceania also aspire towards similar enforced sexual and social anonymity.

While hitler’s germany didn’t get time to implement a full suit of sexually anonymizing measures, the objective was also to make women both sexually anonymous and sexually promiscuous breeding stock.  Cosmetics, personal decoration, and other assertions of sexual individuality that aren’t direct enough in getting women impregnated were increasingly discouraged as the Nazi regime lasted.