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

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

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

Become goddesses of disobedience.

There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.