Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 12, 1962
Birthday: November 12
A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
source: "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.
topic: Bad Ass, Mad, Political, Female Beauty, Thinness, Beauty Myth