Who doesn’t want to be slim and good-looking? Our society clutches external appearance so highly that if you were somehow birthed ill-fated enough to be repulsive yet bright, you still don’t hold as much value in the eyes of humanity today --not like the "pretty people are". If you were born less than blessed, or with a few too many defects or if you just need a nip here and atuck there, however, you have a a way out: Plastic surgery.
My initial reaction
The women's liberationist portion of my mind is appalled that anybody would ever want to fatten their lips, get crap injected into their cheeks, beef up their boobies with cyanogenic refuse, deliberate liposuction or get a abdominoplasty.
It’s conceited. It’s inconsiderate. It’s false advertising. See, underneath all that plastic, nothing is really “you”. After all, what happens when you have nippers and they are born ugly? Where do we draw the hereditary line? Or do we throw our hands up and say, “plastic for all”?
My initial reaction
The women's liberationist portion of my mind is appalled that anybody would ever want to fatten their lips, get crap injected into their cheeks, beef up their boobies with cyanogenic refuse, deliberate liposuction or get a abdominoplasty.
It’s conceited. It’s inconsiderate. It’s false advertising. See, underneath all that plastic, nothing is really “you”. After all, what happens when you have nippers and they are born ugly? Where do we draw the hereditary line? Or do we throw our hands up and say, “plastic for all”?
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However…
The female portion of my psyche, the part with the rumpled self-respect assures me that if I had the money to blow, I’d be not only get plastic surgery, I'd get an overhaul. I’d get new lips, I’d get my eyes face-lifted, I’d have boob implants, abdominoplasties and liposuction galore. I’d be so plastic that my surgeon could tattoo “Made by Mattel” on my hind quarters and put me in a package with “Low Self Esteem Friend of Barbie” besotted on the front.
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Why?
Because I, like so many other adult females (who would like to admit it or not) have abstruse issues with what we see in the mirror. They oftentimes stem from a lifetime of looking just a trifle ungainly, of spending time being fleshy, or of choosing to consort with an abundant line of men who always find us “deficient” in some manner. It comes from being a mouse in the rat’s labyrinth of social forked measures and coalesced messages.
“Be who you are, as long as you fit in this cast.”
And so, I find myself with a moral quandary, a conflict raging smack dab in the middle of two militant factions of my long-standing psychoneurosis. While a big part of me jeers at the plastic promenade, the less than self-assured part of me wants to be a part of it.
So, I ask you (since I can't seem to figure it out): How do you feel about plastic surgery?
Plastic surgeons take all the crap for catering to the looks-obsessed...but they also repair cleft palates, damaged hands, apply skin grafts to burn victims, "make" ears and noses for folks damaged in battle, or even just involved in your every day car accident. Soooo...if the plastic surgeons want to ALSO feed the neuroses of people who may be just fine, but want to "enhance" their appearance...I don't have a problem with that. And who doesn't like boobies? Soooo...can't argue with breast augmentations. Yes, it's "fake" and it's man-made and it's artificial...but so is an American Beauty rose or a maroon Bluebonnet...or a cocker spaniel, for that matter. And all are just as pretty. Mankind does a lot to "uglify" the world: strip mining, city dumps, polluted rivers and lakes and air. I like to think that (except when things go horribly wrong, like in that picture) mankind artificially injecting a little extra beauty into the world can't be all bad.
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the person and circumstance to whether it is good or bad. If a lady is flat chested and feels the need to get some boobs that match her body then I think it is good if she is doing it for the right reasons.
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the person and circumstance to whether it is good or bad. If a lady is flat chested and feels the need to get some boobs that match her body then I think it is good if she is doing it for the right reasons.
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the person and circumstances. After nursing three kids I might only have flaps of skin left dangling in the wind. If that is the case I would consider a breast enhancement, but only to look like I did pre-children.
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