Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's e…

Naomi Wolf
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. ✨ Naomi Wolf (1990). The Beauty Myth, Vintage
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