I'd just flip it around to talk about Western constraints on female appearance. It's offensive that (professional) women still largely have to wear heels, make-up, and skirts of a length somewhere below the knee but above the ankle in order to be seen in the public sphere.

If a male politician were to say that masking one's face with make-up—which, after all, disguises many facial nuances—discourages honest and straightforward community dialogue, we'd all think it was pretty odd.