It's easy to criticize beauty when you're beautiful...

First off - sorry for spelling it 'criticize.' I'm living (and writing) American now. Today I got told off for using the word 'untidy.' That's unAmerican, apparently.

Anyway. Further to my post on The Ugly Truth About Beauty, I thought I'd write about a stunningly beautiful woman I saw on The Colbert Report tonight.

Naomi Wolf pretty much punches every button as far as beauty goes. Luxurious brown hair. Beautiful green eyes. Dimples you could copyright. And just as I wrote in my blog, she's not just defined by her beauty. She's also a bestselling author.

But Naomi Wolf's bestselling book is a feminist masterpiece called the Beauty Myth - in which she criticizes the way modern society forces women to conform to an unrealistic standard of feminine beauty.

Which is kind of stupid, because Naomi Wolf IS an unrealistic standard of feminine beauty. I mean, she's gorgeous. There's nothing worse than a gorgeous woman telling us that society demands women should be gorgeous.

There I was, going on about how nobody should be defined by their beauty - and up springs Naomi Wolf. She's not defined by her beauty at all - she's totally undermined by it.