Tag: censorship

  • The Problem with Courteous Censorship

    Naomi Wolf in her 1991 book, The Beauty Myth, both celebrated and lamented about the role women’s magazines play in women’s lives. These magazines, she said, provide a place where a female perspective can be expressed, but it is distorted by the advertisers: “Advertisers are the West’s courteous censors. They blur the line between editorial…