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How extraordinary! The richest, longest-lived, best-protected, most resourceful civilization with the highest degree of insight into its own technology is on its way to becoming the most frightened. Just count the female victims paraded before us all during the last decade: Princess Diana, Amy Fisher, Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Lorena Bobbitt, Nicole Brown Simpson, Susan Smith, Louise Woodward, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson and, of course, Hillary Clinton. The vast right-wing conspiracy couldn't keep the worst poll numbers of any first lady ever from shooting through the roof when news broke of the Lewinsky affair. Though Hillary is a supremely powerful woman, she learned to milk the victimization card for all it was worth, notes Blyth. It wouldn't surprise me, however, to see Bill conveniently fall off the marital wagon publicly sometime in 2007, just in time for the long-suffering senator to publicly don a victim's rage one more time. Oprah's Fake 'Science' Fools the U.N. But there is a bright side to all the stress of victimization. It en_title_s you to focus on yourself. As Dr. Alice Domar of Harvard says, Your plan for yourself ... is just as important as any other. And women should not be required to give up anything if they need it for themselves. Interestingly, Blyth notes that anti-depressants have become a $10 million market. Could there be a correlation? Stress also sells self-indulgence, writes Blyth, which in turn sells everything from Botox injections to body creams, spa visits to yoga mats. Even the United Nations and the World Health Organization got in on the act when Oprah Winfrey devoted an entire show to a brand new female ailment
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