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Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, journalist and (by around 2014) conspiracy theorist. Wolf's first book, The Beauty Myth (1991), gained international attention.
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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
While a polemical argument in prose may reach tens of thousands of the usual suspects - formally educated people who like to follow such texts - the video version reached far beyond that audience.
It was amazing to go to Belfast, which does not yet have 5G, and feel the earth, sky, air, human experience, feel the way it did in the 1970s. Calm, still peaceful, natural, restful.
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'
The Beauty Myth (1991)
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men’s sexual—and hence social—confidence while undermining that of women.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying a mutually suspicious set of insecurities. He does gain something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.
The Beauty Myth (1991)
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