"I don't wanna be a stupid girl" is a new song by Pink. The music video is hilarious. According to Pink, stupid girls are girls who like to play up their sexiness and would do just about anything for that dubious honor. Among the females made fun of are Paris Hilton and her infamous sex video, Jessica Simpson or other soapy sexy carwash girls, bulimic girls, girls with fake breasts, etc etc. You get the picture, they're relatively easy targets after all.
Lately I've been watching with a sort of morbid fascination as girls one after another go under the knife in order to be prettier, more attractive, more "like the person they feel inside." Style Channel: Dr. 90210 and Extreme Makeover and 10 Years Younger, etc etc. It's absorbing and twisted and in a perverse way, very satisfying because it goes back to that whole "Man is in control of his own destiny" thing. Inject some pain killer, artfully sculpt around with a scalpel and voila! A new and beautiful you! The possibility of instant transformation is too much like the powers of the Cinderella Fairy to resist.
The other allure of cosmetic surgery is that for some things, you can't achieve the result through hard work and practice and toil. I will never be a size D even if I worked that "We must we must we must increase our bust" chant til the day I die. But! I CAN shell out some money and achieve barbie doll perfection overnight. Hmmm....tempting indeed. I guess it's just as well that I don't have the option or luxury of considering that at the moment, or my days would be spent researching that possibility. But the question I would like to posit is, "Is it necessarily stupid to undertake these drastic measures to achieve a certain desired and highly idealized aesthetic of your body? Is the answer really very clear cut? What exactly is the big difference between saline and natural fatty breast tissue? If there isn't such a big deal and distinction, do we need to make such a fuss over a "real" or "fake" breast tissue?
So the one possible objection one may say is, what if you had to nurse your baby in the future? You don't want to be feeding it salt water. And the usual risks involving surgery and what not. But almsot everything in life is a gamble anyway. If you never take the chance, you would never know would you?
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I feel bad about this whole plastic surgery thing. I think it's de-spiriting. I'm not speaking about people who use medical and technological advancement to fix their problems which caused them much sorrow in life - to that, I think it's totally fine. But I think it's de-spiriting that women all want to the same look, and for that they blindly and relentless pursue plastic surgery. It's like Stepford wives! it's so lacking in variety and very distasteful. I think most people look quite fine, it's really one's spirit that makes their face shine.
I think they're just going with what works. There is no doubt that men are visual beings. Men will make snap judgements about women in a matter of seconds based on what she looks like. Those women are just trying to get the upper hand. And of course it works because why else would they be doing it? Trust me, men take notice. It's not just about plastic surgery either. It's the whole package. Hair, skin, body, smell, makeup, everything.
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