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


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The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.



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Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.



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



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Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.



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Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.



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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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