Status Updates From The Beauty Myth (Vintage Fe...

The books and films that [teenagers] see survey from the young boys point of view his first touch of a girls thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, as if they were not part of their bodies, their thighs crossed self-consciously, learning how to leave their bodies and watch them from the outside … little girls learn not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.