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If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experien

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

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The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wr

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

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HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each h

HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,WHENdid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the personWHOlives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect.

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What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as f

What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?

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What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing,

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, w

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

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Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

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Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh se

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.

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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks throu

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

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Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerf

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

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The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and m

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

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Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

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Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's his

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession a

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

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There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of

There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness

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Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, s

Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we pay for artificially buoying up this market is our heart's desire. The beauty myth keeps a gap of fantasy between men and women. That gap is made with mirrors; no law of nature supports it. It keeps us spending vast sums of money and looking distractedly around us, but its smoke and reflection interfere with our freedom to be sexually ourselves.

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Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

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