“To begin with it was a confusion due in no small measure to the various related industries - fashion, cosmetics, media, clothes, etc., etc., - completely distorting the word Beauty to suit their agenda, and then the writer used the word with the same distorted false meaning throughout the book.
That is primarily not her fault and to be fair she often does make it clear that the way those industries use it is not her concept of Beauty at all. Still, the use of the word in the way it...”