“In 1991, Naomi Wolf wrote, in ‘Beauty Myth,’ about the peculiar fact that beauty requirements have escalated as women’s subjugation has decreased. It’s as if our culture has mustered an immune system response to continue breaking the fever of gender equality – as if some deep patriarchal logic has made it that women need to achieve ever-higher levels of beauty to makeup for the fact that we are no longer economically and legally dependent on men.”