Flipping through the multitude of TV channels I stumbled onto a plastic surgery show. Awesome... Except I missed all the good parts. No blood, no guts, nothing even close to disgusting... except for the people getting the surgery... They were kids.
I understood why one of the girls got surgery, she had severe facial deformaties that impeded her daily life. The youngest girl was still somewhat understandable, she had her ears pinned back because they were so prominant. But the other two girls, both in high school...they just made me sad. One had a breast reduction, the other had an enlargement. Not even 18 yet, not even done growing up, and already taking a knife to their bodies.
It reminded me of my days in high school where girls got boob jobs and Daddy's Bimmer for their sweet 16. Never being taught that they can love their bodies or that life doesn't operate at their pace. They escape the reality that they have to work for things that they want and the idea that not getting everything you want is ok sometimes. I couldn't look at these girls without feeling a little sick to my stomach.
But maybe I'm just being pushy with my sense of right and wrong...
Posted by Princess Cat at July 2, 2005 05:41 PM @ 05:41 PM in What the Crap? // Permalink | TrackBackThat's easy for you to say! Actually, I view it as being symptomatic of "hot chick syndrome." I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed that hot chicks are generally against plastic surgery. And women with beautiful, beautiful knockers would denying implants to everyone under, say, 30.
Of course, such people never grew up incredibly ugly. I did. I looked (and continue to) like Eric Stolz in the stupid friggin' Cher movie. You try getting laid looking like that! I dare you!
Accordingly, I advocate that cosmetic surgery be available immediately upon birth. As a matter of fact, if I could figure out a way to make pre-natal plastic surgery practical, I'd be for that too!
All I ever wanted was to be a hot guy, like Keith Richards....
Oh, and really smart, like Tom Cruise! Life would be so much easier if I knew the history of psychiatry.
Posted by: skippystalin at July 3, 2005 11:30 AM