Charlotte Gee was the first woman ever to pose nude for the sake of female beauty. (You can read about it here.) This is remarkable because for the thousands of years that mankind has existed, not one single woman has ever stood up to those who denounce female beauty and persecute the women who possess it, not one has ever dared to publicly stake her claim to her own beauty and the power it affords her, not one has ever dared to say within the hearing of others, "I am beautiful and it is good", and not one has dared to promote our idea that persecuting women for their beauty and sexuality is wrong, and must stop. Charlotte Gee dares. And for that, history may well remember her long after the rest of us are gone. Which is appropriate, because beauty like hers, deserves to be.
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