Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi WolfHistorically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.
Naomi WolfWhen [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiarโ-who hands him the paper every morning.
Naomi Wolf