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What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

— Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth (1991)

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

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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

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

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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

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