I've done a lot of reading on sexuality, feminism, rape culture, et cetera.  


A long time ago, I decided that I would be happy with myself.  I do this by having self esteem derived internally, by taking care not to derive my sense of worth from any group of people I couldn't speak with personally on a frequent and routine basis.

It seems that this is an ability unique to me, or at least absent in most women.  I believe this to be the source of much discontent in women.  The inability to ...grok, if you will... the idea that fashioning an ideal self image out of the requirements and specifications of a faceless majority with objectives that never intersect with a care for your well-being is inherently folly and ultimately (as routinely proven by the series of eating disorders, among other self destructive tendencies) suicidal.

This leads to inevitable emotional and psychological insecurity.

But what to do about it?