Beauty standards make women self-inflict bodily injury through intramural competition

Evidence

Similarly, paternalistic sanctions and incentives in gender relations drive self-interested women to compete with one another in the self-infliction of bodily injuries in order to avoid stigmatization and earn the social rewards that come from meeting or exceeding the beauty standards of their day. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 678

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the dress/immodesty moral-panics piece — beauty-standard self-infliction is a complementary mechanism of bodily norm enforcement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 678