Beauty and the Beach

There's an insideous theory going around that says the periods of sexual freedom enjoyed by women after WWI and WWII were actually the opposite - that actually they were periods of tyranny over women perpetrated by men who tied women's value to how good they looked in a bathing suit and thus subjugated them by forcing them to spend all their time and effort trying to look their best.

In reality, gaining the right to vote after WWI and their integration into the workfroce during WWII gave women greater control over their lives, and their assertion of their right not to be smothered in dowdy head-to-toe bathing suits after WWI or bustier-and-girdle type swimsuits after WWII came more from their exhileration in their new found freedom than from their desire to please men.

The women who espouse the "beauty is tyranny" theory, which incidentally is the accepted theory today judging from accounts given in all the swimsuit documentaries lately, are simply evil. You can see just how evil they are by considering that fact that they are willing to smear over the true method by which women gain equality and sexual freedom and to misrepresent the true nature of both and thus to risk thrusting women back into the dark ages of sexuality all because it's an effort for them to look as good as supermodels do in a bathing suit!