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

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

The Tea Party is not monolithic. There is a battle between people who care about liberty and the Constitution and the Republican Establishment who is trying to take ownership of it and redirect it for its own purposes.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

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From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.