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THE BEAUTY MYTH BY NAOMI WOLF "How Images of Beauty Are Used…

- - - - There was a clearly defined class of those explicitly paid for their “beauty”: workers in the display professions—fashion mannequins, actresses, dancers, and higher-paid sex workers such as escorts. Until women’s emancipation, professional beauties were usually anonymous, low in status, unrespectable. The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate
      - Many economists agree that women do not expect promotion and higher wages because they have been conditioned by their work experience not to expect improvements in work status: Women, writes Sidel, “are often unsure of their intrinsic worth in the marketplace. The PBQ reinforces the double standard. Women have always been paid less than men for equal work, and the PBQ gives that double standard a new rationale where the old rationale is illegal. Men’s and women’s bodies are compared in a way that symbolizes to both the comparison between men’s and women’s careers.
- - - - The Church of Beauty
        is, like the Iron Maiden, a two-sided symbol.Women have embraced it eagerly from below as a means to fill the spiritual void that grew as their traditional relation to religious authority eroded the rite counter women’s new freedom by combating women’s entry into the secular public world with medieval superstition, keeping power inequalities safer than they might otherwise be.
      - The Social Effect of the New Religion
        The international consequence of indoctrinating newly enfranchised women into the Rites of Beauty is that we once more are being politically sedated. Three elements used by the Rites—hunger, fear of a chaotic future, and indebtedness—have been used throughout the world by political leaders who want to keep an aggrieved population humble and quiescent.