Mancouch recently featured an entry about the types of girls to avoid. In general, I agree, but I feel that one bit is way off base:
"If a chick gets her nose done or liposuction at age 19, this means that in the prime of her life she was dissatisfied with her body."
Excuse me? I'm nineteen, and if I had that kind of money to toss around, I would get a nose job AND lipo in a heartbeat. That doesn't mean I'm "dissatisfied" with my body. It means that I recognize the importance of beauty in today's society, and I also recognize that the younger you have such procedures, the lower your risk of permanent scarring.
I do draw the line somewhere. If you've had more than two procedures done, that's probably really overboard. If you've had breast or butt implants (yes, people get those, too), then I think you may have a problem. But if you just had one procedure? Give me a break.
Of course, it all depends on the motivation for doing it. If a girl really thinks that plastic surgery will solve all her problems, then she's a nutjob (this is completely unrelated to whether she actually has the surgery). If a girl understands that how she looks really
does affect what she is able to do get accomplished even in the most professional circles, then why penalize her for that?
Who's with me?
Comments (36)
Well, I wouldn't get lipo or a nose job.
@Dare2BDiferentt - But you're also probably not opposed to breast implants.
I disagreed on quite a few point of that article. The whole plastic
surgery thing was one of them, but I think you did a good job at
explaining why so I don't feel the need to repeat you.
I would list all the reasons why I disagreed with that article, but that would be such a long comment.. I'll just go write a blog about it. haha.
@la_faerie_joyeuse - I wouldn't get them, but I don't disapprove of them.
i think id go scooter shopping,,,,, if i had that kind of money to throw around,,, my present one is fine,,, but,,,, hey,,, ive got money to throw around.....
I don't know... i mean i'm not a fan of inserts and augmentation or anything fake in the body of a woman... at 19 though I think there is something to be said about a girl who is dissatisfied with her body... but then again, the cultural standard of beauty is rather fickle and honestly, I don't think a girl who is in the prime of her life should adhere to the standard of beauty today... in their own right and in each girls own way, each girl has beauty to offer... and no amount of augmentation will change that... but that's my opinion...
I personally think that society's view of how a woman should look needs to take a flying leap off a very tall building. If I am unable to get ahead in this world because my butt is too big, my boobs are too small or my nose is the wrong shape then I am in the wrong business. I believe that God made us look the way that we do for a reason and it is not my place to change that...nor is it society's place to tell us to change it.
"I do draw the line somewhere. If you've had more than two procedures
done, that's probably really overboard. If you've had breast or butt
implants (yes, people get those, too), then I think you may have a
problem. But if you just had one procedure? Give me a break."
i agree. i also think 19 is still kinda young for plastic surgery, and i would bet that most of the girls who have procedures done aren't think about it as YOU are.
so you may, but you probably don't need to, IF that picture is you. uh oh.
I'm definitely am. But there's breast augmentation nothing wrong with breast augmentation. It doesn't make it that much lower than a nose job or liposuction.
I want a boob job. I feel that I will feel so much better about my body if I had nicer breasts. And I don't mean bigger, I don't even want size D boobs. I want to feel better about my body, and I accept that not everyone is perfect and I don't even care if my eyes are a little off or if I have thunder thighs, but I need this for me and no one else.
I think 19 is a little young for permanently altering your body. A nose job I'm a bit more okay with, I think at 19 most people have pretty good judgment about it, but lipo and breast implants have a lot of complications. Lipo, tummy tucks especially I have an issue with because most people are very capable of altering their physique at a young age with diet, exercise. I'd be worried about it encouraging a lack of responsibility towards their health. However, you seem more mature than most your age, so I'm sure you have your reasons.
@awokenfatality - I knew someone would ask about this. Here are the reasons that I don't like the idea of breast implants:
1. I find the vast majority of them really unattractive. Some of them really do look nice (Scarlett Johansson, for instance), but most remind me of Victoria Beckham: they don't look like boobs. They look like someone just popped a square balloon into the area between your skin and your rib cage. Wtf is the point of that?
2. There is a risk of permanently losing the ability to breastfeed or sensation in your boobs. Who wants that?
3. They only last 10 years. If you get them at 20, then you will have to get the surgery probably at least four times over your life!
4. I think there's a fundamental difference between taking something away, and adding something foreign. Adding something to your body feels wrong; chopping off a piece of what's there seems healthier (less risk of infection/rejection) and less unnatural.
5. Saline implants can rupture. Enough said.
6. I don't - and never will - need them. This shouldn't be a reason for me to dislike them in others, but it is. I am less able to sympathize, I suppose?
7. Things like rhinoplasty, liposuction, etc. actually do make you more marketable in terms of a career. Boob jobs pretty much only make you more marketable as a sex object.
8. I don't know why anyone would wish this curse on themselves. It's really hard to find shirts, run, and men don't take you as seriously. Just wear a push-up bra?
@steph843 - Even when I weighed 130 lbs (I had a 24" waist!), I still had fat on my stomach. It wasn't large, but it was there. I have always dreamed of having a flat stomach, and the only way to achieve that would be lipo.
But like I said, I wouldn't do it unless I had a ton of spare money floating around.
I think 19 is very young for plastic surgery. I disagree with you about "the importance of beauty in today's society," barring actual disfigurement. On the other hand, I think the quote you gave from the mancouch article is all kinds of stupid and I agree a 19 year old who gets plastic surgery is not "dissatisfied with her body in the prime of her life."
appearances are viewed as important in today's society. but that's not necessarily something we should accept and enforce.
but I really don't think it matters if people have surgery to make themselves "prettier." it is their body, not mine.
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@la_faerie_joyeuse - I can see what you mean. I'm not going to make my breast bigger per se, just make them more nicely shape. I know that you have to reget it done every 10 years and you can loose sensation. I imagine the sensation is if you decide to cut out the nipple, there are other ways.
@awokenfatality - Actually any place of insertion can cause you to lose sensation in your breast. Just saying.
I will say it surprises me that you're okay with a nose job and lipo, but not breast implants or other types of augmentation/surgery. I think to each woman their own with this...I think we each have one or two things that we don't like about ourselves and if we could, would change. I think if there's a gal out there who has, for example an incredibly small chest, that getting perhaps a size B enhancement is totally reasonable. Same thing with a lady who was perhaps born with a larger than normal nose, I don't think there's anything wrong with getting that fixed if it makes her feel better about herself.
I do agree completely that more than one or two of these things is perhaps leaning towards going overboard.
lol i dont care how many among of plastic sugery a person gets as long as the person is happy..what r we to judge who makes what happy ? :)
I think 19 seems young for plastic surgery, but I get what you are saying. I don't think at 19 your body has settled into how its going to be before it gets changed.
remember the girl in dirty dancing with Patric Swayze? beautiful in her own way...yet with a nose job now you never recognize her,but she has been in a few movies since, Sandra bullock if she ever had one... Sofia Loren... Audrey Hepburn ... so many ..so many body types, short, skinny, tall, voluptuios .. so many beautifull... but should you take their images apart you find they all defy the laws of beauty.. they are quite ugly actualy so..what made them all beautiful? belive it or not..go under the knife and get hacked into beauty if you wish...most of us jus say hmm look at that plastic surgery case... what made them beautiful was how they simply saw themselves..we saw thier strengths..weaknesses we saw what was in them .. who they were inside is what simply brought out their beauty...soo if yer a mouse...you look it but a tigress..sighs... umm my two cents..
I think this is situation heavy and it should be played by ear, but in general I agree
I'd get a tail, if they ever figured out how to implant a working one.
Being a guy, I personally like women who have not and will not go through any operation to change any part of their bodies. Natural beauty is the way to go for me.
You make some valid points in your post.
@RoidBear - What if you didn't know? With many procedures, it's impossible to tell. Or, what about something like laser hair removal?