A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty society culture body-image weight eating-disorders images
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty society culture dieting body-image weight eating-disorders
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty culture body-image weight eating-disorders thinness
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
Carrie ArnoldTags: self-esteem society eating body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.
Cheri K. ErdmanTags: self-esteem society culture diets body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.
Cheri K. ErdmanTags: self-esteem beauty society diets body-image diet-industry
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: self-esteem beauty body-image weight eating-disorders diet-industry
[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman’s 60 year old face looks like in print because it’s made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they’re comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.
Dalma HeynTags: self-esteem beauty society magazines aging editing body-image
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
Germaine GreerTags: self-esteem beauty society body-image weight
Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduced "beautiful" images? Though unconscious personal anxieties can be a powerful force in the creation of a vital lie, economic necessity practically guarantees it. An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that "justify" the institution of slavery. Western economies are absolutely dependent now on the continued underpayment of women. An idealogy that makes women feel "worth less" was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more. This does not require a conspiracy; merely an atmosphere. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth.
Naomi WolfTags: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism culture magazines aging cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography eating-disorders images plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery fashion-industry mass-culture
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