Welcome to 2007 - the time when more people than ever, with absolutely no medical conditions or sicknesses, are taking themselves off to the operating theatres of the world and paying rich surgeons a fortune to be sliced, diced, nipped, tucked, sucked, stretched, and implanted. To be made beautiful, hot, or more attractive at the very least. To be made new and improved, popular, noticed - a surgical path to happiness.
Perhaps we should forget the wrinkles around our eyes and get the doctor to take a look at our brain while we're on the table.
Somehow, on some level, some people (okay, many) have bought into the disturbing belief that if they have fewer wrinkles, less sag, more perk, less fat and skin, and perhaps a different nose they will be happier and more fulfilled; their life will be better.
They must have bought into it, otherwise, why would they risk their life (all surgery is a calculated risk) and pay a fortune to do it? People who are already in debt are so desperate to be enhanced they are taking out more loans to undergo cosmetic surgery. Somewhere along the line they (we) have been programmed to believe that a Certain Physical Appearance = Attractiveness = Desirability = Happiness.
We bought into the lie. How do we un-learn this crap when we live in a society that constantly screams at us how beauty equals success? See any movie, watch any TV show, read any magazine; it's all about being gorgeous - at all costs. Even the TV show Ugly Betty is all about the unlikely situation of a less-than-glamorous girl with eyebrows like a Muppet trying to survive in the beautiful, bitchy, glam world of the fashion magazine. While many viewers identify with the character and feel for her (perhaps because they see some of themselves in Betty) and want to give her a big old hug, I haven't spoken to anyone who actually wants to look like her.
Article comments
1 - Elsa
I am so tired of looking at face-lifted faces I wanna bang my head against a wall. Great piece! I plan to (continue to) age in whatever way I do, and whoever doesn't like it can KMA! :)