What do you think about the effects the media has on the plastic surgery craze?
I am writing a cause and effect paper for my college English class. I think the media has a great impact on looks and what looks good and what doesn’t.. I think it also has something to do with the way MANY people are getting plastic surgery. What is your opinion? Do you think too many doctors are doing plastic surgery, and messing a lot of people up because they have little/no experience? Thanks for the help!!
Hard to generalize about plastic surgeons — "who" is best qualified, and "who" isn’t ! A little bit probably wouldn’t hurt someone with self-esteem issues, as many people with large noses, big stomachs, protruding chins and lopsided breasts STILL MANAGE TO GO THROUGH LIFE without going under the knife. But, as shown on some of these "investigative" TV SHOWS, many people (especially women, who constitute the majority of candidates for surgery) tend to get "addicted" to the whole false idea of "perfection" through surgery. Especially models, actresses, and just plain "vain" types (who actually aren’t vain, again (in my opinion) just "low self-esteem" masquerading as "beauty improvements". Why else do so many female candidates "buy into" this whole "beauty myth" trip ?
March 19th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Hard to generalize about plastic surgeons — "who" is best qualified, and "who" isn’t ! A little bit probably wouldn’t hurt someone with self-esteem issues, as many people with large noses, big stomachs, protruding chins and lopsided breasts STILL MANAGE TO GO THROUGH LIFE without going under the knife. But, as shown on some of these "investigative" TV SHOWS, many people (especially women, who constitute the majority of candidates for surgery) tend to get "addicted" to the whole false idea of "perfection" through surgery. Especially models, actresses, and just plain "vain" types (who actually aren’t vain, again (in my opinion) just "low self-esteem" masquerading as "beauty improvements". Why else do so many female candidates "buy into" this whole "beauty myth" trip ?
References :
The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolfe (book)
March 19th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Society has put too much stock on looks. It used to be that you weren’t to judge a person by how they looked, because that was the one thing about themselves they couldn’t change. You were to look to the inside and get to know them that way. Personality used to mean so much more. Now we have the media, and magazines, and everything else telling us just how we should look, and it’s crazy. Now plastic surgery is around, and if you can’t fix how you look by yourself, then you can get someone to fix it for you if you can find the money to do so. That just makes it easier for the world to keep juding people by the outside, and it’s truly superficial. Also, if you don’t love yourself inspite of your flaws, how can you really love yourself without them?
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