Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.
Naomi Wolf
advertising, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, self-esteem, sexuality, society