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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
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Conspiracy Theorist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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