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I find it sad beauty is so prized that women will deform themselves for it. Like any person, I love beauty when I see it. I thrill to rainbows and radiant sunsets, grand architecture and gorgeous clothing. But I don’t thrill to one particular type of beauty, and that is the beauty myth. Because for some reason, all these so-called ‘beauty treatments’, whether face creams or Botox or diets or liposuction, all conform to one particular image of beauty. It is blonde, smooth-skinned, unwrinkled, thin, regular-featured, white-toothed, shiny-haired but not too hairy, well-endowed and moist-lipped. A young, white, Western beauty, in fact. Continue reading →