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

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

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

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale. We look down on people we don't agree with. It doesn't serve us well.