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+ What Women Want

January 25, 2011 – 4:24 pm

Women’s increased participation in the workplace is seen as evidence that with every passing day, women draw closer to fulfilling their potential. Yet the cheering and applause drown out the reality: this is not what women want. Most women don’t aspire to the kind of lives that their supposed champions are busily engineering for them. [...]

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+ Fashion & Self-esteem

October 17, 2009 – 6:13 pm

Do we follow fashion out of an underlying, bitter self-loathing? In response to a German magazine’s decision to cease using professional size-zero models, Karl Lagerfeld commented that “No one wants to see curvy women,” elaborating that it is fat women with low self-esteem who wish to see curvier figures: “you’ve got fat mothers with their [...]

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