This preoccupation with physical stature, which was punctuated so perfectly by steroid scandals in pro sports, is thought by many to have been a reaction to hird-wave feminism, one of the most influential gender movements in history.
It is time for women to stand up to seize this moment, as sure to wreak havoc with prevailing norms as the Second Wavefeminism that inspired me in the 1960s to morph from real West Texas housewife (I mean really real -- three kids by age 20 and no employable skills) to college student to volunteer women's activist to a full-out career.