Re: Plastic Surgery: Please Help Me Understand

I agree that plastic surgery can at times be important to help someone avoid questions and discomfort and salvage appearance after a trauma.

I disagree with women doing it to feel good or look "better". I think a lady with wrinkles looks better than one whose face looks under strain from strethching and has all the unique features hacked away to look like a doll. I would rather a woman had a big nose than a silly little button made by a surgeon.

Moreover, my point was especially about the negative effects where males now actually long for the "perfection" of fake boobs or think a featureless face with peroxide hair is better than a person who looks natural. I think the idealisation of collagen lips, baseball boobs and white hair exemplified in Pamela Anderson has done women and girls across the world a major disservice. I think plastic surgery actually isn't just a case of "who cares?" but actually something that ruins life for everybody, like advertisements.

Finally Gary, I am happy with what I've got and the thought of someone going there with a knife is a double disincentive :)

Actually finally, this was a good thread to dig up.