Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of … - Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor.

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