Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

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

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