Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Even though I'm appalled when racism surfaces, and I personally don't agree with certain policy solutions and a lot of what they believe in, as someone who is very concerned about reinvigorating democracy the Tea Parties are an answer to what I asked for.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

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

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.