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...place where "whether we are 5 or 55 the number one predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession head on. Unlike Naomi Wolf, who in her 1992 book, The Beauty Myth, portrayed the elevation of beauty as manipulative and ultimately sadistic, Friday reaches older, muddier and much more happily self-satisfied conclusions. In the end, she isn't angry at the power...
...place where "whether we are 5 or 55 the number one predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession head...
...problem, as detailed in The Power of Beauty, is that most women create insurmountable obstacles to their pursuit of another troika, "beauty/sex/men." For this, Friday clearly blames the feminist movement. As she sees it, the braless raised fisties of the mid-'60s separated women from their natural love of sex and men, and thus made women unnaturally dependent on one another...
Gates has invested in a variety of speculative alliances: with Hollywood's DreamWorks troika (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) to make interactive entertainment products; with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., to build interactive TV systems; with cellular-telephone pioneer Craig McCaw's Teledesic Corp., to build a network of low-flying telecommunications satellites...
This was done, Gregoire charged, so that the troika could secure the passage of the council's new constitution, penned largely by Fine himself...