Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.