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/^t/The Sixties in the 20th century were the true beginnings of emancipation. The early Sixties' response was to decide not to grow up at all, to remain a spindly-legged girl-child - the look that was piloted by model Twiggy, a perfect Queen of Beauty. It was at this point that cases of anorexia nervosa and bulimia began to multiply. To be perfect was most important, even if you have to die for it, or play the no-food game to the brink of death. Nowadays women still go, in pursuit of the impossible, to hairdressers, to the cosmetic surgeons, to the beauty counters, to the dress shops, to the physical fitness clubs, pushing their food away, making themselves vomit, constantly tripping into the Beauty Myth, the Beauty Trap. Why? To show men a raised female consciousness, to show men that if they want, they can be perfect and better. But is it really the case? Certainly, it is not. There is no perfection and beauty in artificiality, in a woman who due to dieting and worrying about her appearance suffers eating disorders or nervous breakdown. Emancipation has gone too far, it turned into the constraint. Women did not prove to be better than men either in physical or psychical sense. Moreover, they harmed themselves.