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— Naomi Wolf"A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience."
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.
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