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Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, society, self esteem, culture, feminism, sexuality, images, body image, magazines, marketing
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(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Market
(n.) The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.
(n.) Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and mor...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition-- women will only feel healthy if we are t...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because it is hers, that is next...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is mere vapor. His speech is empty, without substance or content. His use of language, accordi...
Harry G. Frankfurt
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truth, reality, philosophy, logic, critical thinking, speech, marketing, critical examination, depiction
Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image
For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexu...
Naomi Wolf
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beauty, equality, society, self esteem, culture, aging, feminism, sexuality, images, body image