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The Beauty Myth

The Beauty Myth is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf which argues that as women have become more powerful in society the standards of physical appearance have also grown.

Wolf believes that "beauty" is a societal construct:

"The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us... during the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty... pornography became the main media category, ahead of legitimate films and records combined, and thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal...More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers."

Thursday, 10 April 2014

It's time to move on...


don't worry, I'm not moving on physically, just cyberly. Blogger has official bored me to tears. It's impossible to blog on the go and is very unkind to my photos. I feel my blogging skills have gone past the basic blogger tools so I am moving on to pastors new:

Namely http://crazechickadee.wordpress.com/

I will leave the blog up for a week or so to allow the strangles to adjust to the news. Then I am going to save my wonderful writing on a hard drive, that I will then lock in a drawer and vow never to read again until I am in a better place.


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