If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.

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

The '60s and '70s - I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury - people around me were going to school by day and all night long having these incredibly exciting meetings, mobilizing, marching, drafting statements. It was very intoxicating. It was very energizing. We've really forgotten a lot of those skills. Or they haven't been transmitted. It's useful to the people controlling us to have those skills not be available.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

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, twice as good.