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- What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
- 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.…
- The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born…
- Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic…
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
- Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be…
- From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an…
- The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W.…
- Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been,…
- When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed…
- 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.…
- What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
- As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle