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

George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It is terrifying and the left doesn't seem to recognize it.

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

The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

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.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

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