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“The trope of feminine beauty, demanding harmony and proportion, is often at odds with the dictate that women are more emotive, with access to a greater range of facial expressions than men. But at the same time, women are more transparent precisely because they cannot control these emotions; the emotions are involuntary and burst through the facial/dermal membrane, aligning them with irrationality”