Re: Plastic Surgery: Please Help Me Understand
cyberpainter wrote:
I don't see anything wrong with it. So people change themselves, so what? Who cares? I do think sexism is still around, and women should rise above the stereotypes. But no one wants to get old, and if you want to be in the dating scene as an older woman it can be very difficult in our society. Going to obsessive extremes with it though and botched jobs is another story.
plastic surgery is a weak attempt at trying to escape the inevitable.
it's true, no one wants to get old. but we do get old. we're supposed to. there even used to be a great deal of value attached to that fact -- the wisdom and experience that could be sounded down from an older generation to the next one was serious business. but with the schism that's occurred within the western family structure, our rapidly decreasing interest in history, and with so much uncertainty about our future as a civilization, all that value has been lost. so we try to waylay getting old, not only because it makes us wrinkled and saggy but also because getting old means being relegated to the fringes of society, tucked away in a home where you wait out your remaining years among strangers and apathetic nurses who make minimum wage...
this is much bigger than a sexism issue -- men and women alike have to contend with it.
i swear, this life is becoming more and more like a kurt vonnegut novel everyday...
