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.
Naomi Wolf
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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.
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.
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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