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“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily available, well-lit, cheap images of boys slightly older than herself, in their late teens, smiling encouragingly and revealing cuddly erect penises the color of roses or mocha, she might well look at, masturbate to, and, as an adult, "need" beauty pornography based on the bodies of men. And if those initiating penises were represented to the girl as pneumatically erectible, swerving neither left nor right, tasting of cinnamon or forest berries, innocent of random hairs, and ever ready; if they were presented alongside their measurements, length, and circumference to the quarter inch; if they seemed to be available to her with no troublesome personality attached; if her sweet pleasure seemed to be the only reason for them to exist--then a real young man would probably approach the young woman's bed with, to say the least, a failing heart.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of power. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not exist on the woman's body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their searching hungry gazed returned to their own bodies. The questions, Whom do I desire? Why? What will I do about it? are turned around: Would I desire myself? Why?...Why not? What can I do about it?
The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts estranged as if they were not part of their bodies, their thighs crossed self-consciously, learning how to leave their bodies and watch them from the outside. Since their bodies are seen from the point of view of strangeness and desire, it is no wonder that what should be familiar, felt to be whole, become estranged and divided into parts. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys; that takes up the space that should be devoted to finding out about what they are wanting, and reading and writing about it, seeking it and getting it. Sex is held hostage by beauty and its ransom terms are engraved in girls' minds early and deeply with instruments more beautiful that those which advertisers or pornographers know how to use: literature, poetry, painting, and film.
This outside-in perspective on their own sexuality leads to the confusion that is at the heart of the myth. Women come to confuse sexual looking with being looked at sexually ("Clairol...it's the look you want"); many confuse sexually feeling with being sexually felt ("Gillete razors...the way a woman wants to feel"); many confuse desiring with being desirable. "My first sexual memory," a woman tells me, "was when I first shaved my legs, and when I ran my hand down the smooth skin I felt how it would feel to someone else's hand." Women say that when they lost weight they "feel sexier" but the nerve endings in the clitoris and nipples don't multiply with weight loss. Women tell me they're jealous of the men who get so much pleasure out of the female body that they imagine being inside the male body that is inside their own so that they can vicariously experience desire.
Could it be then that women's famous slowness of arousal to men's, complex fantasy life, the lack of pleasure many experience in intercourse, is related to this cultural negation of sexual imagery that affirms the female point of view, the culture prohibition against seeing men's bodies as instruments of pleasure? Could it be related to the taboo against representing intercourse as an opportunity for a straight woman actively to pursue, grasp, savor, and consume the male body for her satisfaction, as much as she is pursued, grasped, savored, and consumed for his?”
― The Beauty Myth
The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts estranged as if they were not part of their bodies, their thighs crossed self-consciously, learning how to leave their bodies and watch them from the outside. Since their bodies are seen from the point of view of strangeness and desire, it is no wonder that what should be familiar, felt to be whole, become estranged and divided into parts. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys; that takes up the space that should be devoted to finding out about what they are wanting, and reading and writing about it, seeking it and getting it. Sex is held hostage by beauty and its ransom terms are engraved in girls' minds early and deeply with instruments more beautiful that those which advertisers or pornographers know how to use: literature, poetry, painting, and film.
This outside-in perspective on their own sexuality leads to the confusion that is at the heart of the myth. Women come to confuse sexual looking with being looked at sexually ("Clairol...it's the look you want"); many confuse sexually feeling with being sexually felt ("Gillete razors...the way a woman wants to feel"); many confuse desiring with being desirable. "My first sexual memory," a woman tells me, "was when I first shaved my legs, and when I ran my hand down the smooth skin I felt how it would feel to someone else's hand." Women say that when they lost weight they "feel sexier" but the nerve endings in the clitoris and nipples don't multiply with weight loss. Women tell me they're jealous of the men who get so much pleasure out of the female body that they imagine being inside the male body that is inside their own so that they can vicariously experience desire.
Could it be then that women's famous slowness of arousal to men's, complex fantasy life, the lack of pleasure many experience in intercourse, is related to this cultural negation of sexual imagery that affirms the female point of view, the culture prohibition against seeing men's bodies as instruments of pleasure? Could it be related to the taboo against representing intercourse as an opportunity for a straight woman actively to pursue, grasp, savor, and consume the male body for her satisfaction, as much as she is pursued, grasped, savored, and consumed for his?”
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
― The Beauty Myth
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life.
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.”
― The Beauty Myth
Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.”
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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. A thin young woman with precancerous lungs [who smokes to stay thin] is more highly rewarded socially that a hearty old crone. Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty used to punish women for their failure to achieve and conform to it]and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Werner Herzog](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1665231799i/22565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman can exact from her lover. If he appreciates her face and body because it is hers, that is next to worthless. It is very neat: The myth contrives to make women offend men by scrutinizing honest appreciation when they give it; it can make men offend women merely by giving them honest appreciation. It can manage to contaminate the sentence "You're beautiful," which is next to "I love you" in expressing a bond of regard between a woman and a man. A man cannot tell a woman that he loves to look at her without risking making her unhappy. If he never tells her, she is destined to be unhappy. And the "luckiest" woman of all, told she is loved because she's "beautiful," is often tormented because she lacks the security of being desired because she looks like who she lovably is.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.
Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.”
― The Beauty Myth
Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.”
― The Beauty Myth
![Fran Lebowitz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1536147926i/8127311._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Lisi Harrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1502742971i/4605._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! The messages were the exact opposite of Vik and Viv's.
Hmmmmm.
Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the yellow wardrobe. She opened her robe and examined her body. Fit, muscular, and exquisitely proportioned, she agreed with the magazines. So what if her skin was mint? Or her limbs were attached with seams? According to the magazines, which were - no offense! - way more in touch with the times than her parents were, she was suppose to love her body just the way it was. And she did! Therefor if the normies read magazines (which obviously they did, because they were in them), then they would love her, too. Natural was in.
Besides she was Daddy's perfect little girl. And who didn't love perfect?”
― Monster High
Hmmmmm.
Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the yellow wardrobe. She opened her robe and examined her body. Fit, muscular, and exquisitely proportioned, she agreed with the magazines. So what if her skin was mint? Or her limbs were attached with seams? According to the magazines, which were - no offense! - way more in touch with the times than her parents were, she was suppose to love her body just the way it was. And she did! Therefor if the normies read magazines (which obviously they did, because they were in them), then they would love her, too. Natural was in.
Besides she was Daddy's perfect little girl. And who didn't love perfect?”
― Monster High
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
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