When women breached the power structure in the 1980s…two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
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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.
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I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women’s appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
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Birth: | 12th November, 1962 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Author, Political Consultant |
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