Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the ideal. When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his c...
What I saw as the negative effect on women’s minds of such mundane tracking activities as calorie counting, I had sensed that the reason so many tasks women are expected to do in society involve this...
Women who looked like fashion models—admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or...
Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The g...
When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those mom...
As qualidades que um determinado período considera belas nas mulheres são apenas símbolos do comportamento feminino que aquele período julga ser desejável. O mito da beleza de fato sempre determina o...
Obviamente sob o ponto de vista físico os homens não envelhecem melhor. Eles só envelhecem melhor em termos de seu status social. Esse nosso erro de percepção deriva do fato de nossos olhos estarem tr...
Of course, men don’t age any better physically. They age better only in terms of social status. We misperceive in this way since our eyes are trained to see time as a flaw on women’s faces where it is...
Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.
Societies tell themselves necessary fictions in the same way that individuals and families do. Henrik Ibsen called them vital lies, and psychologist Daniel Goleman describes them working the same way...
The beauty myth posited to women a false choice: Which will I be, sexual or serious? We must reject that false and forced dilemma. Men’s sexuality is taken to be enhanced by their seriousness; to be a...
The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent...
The harm is apparent in the way such imagery represses female sexuality and lowers women’s sexual self-esteem by casting sex as locked in a chastity belt to which beauty is the only key.
What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home barefoot, holding her...
Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner’s interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman’s destructive rival for her man’s s...
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled t...
Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn’t care about women’s appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to l...
It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses aside to serve the needs of a tiny creature around the clock—especially in...
Let’s say a man really loves a woman; he sees her as his equal, his ally, his colleague; but she enters this other realm and becomes unfathomable. In the krypton spotlight, which he doesn’t even see,...
The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result.
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