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⌈ Secret Post #3765 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Cosmetic surgery

[(Anonymous)]

Cosmetic surgery to look prettier, making big $$$ for "doctors" who presumably took the Hippocratic Oath. At the same time, people are going bankrupt and/or dying because they can't afford life saving surgery.

Fuck this shit. Society is a mess!

(That said, sometimes cosmetic surgery can really make a person's life better...but this is usually about repairing damage or birth defects, rather than "make me prettier, doc!")

Also there is a risk involved in ANY surgery. I would never have surgery if it was an OPTION to "look nicer."

Re: Cosmetic surgery

[(Anonymous)]

Also there is a risk involved in ANY surgery.

I feel like so many people ignore this part. As someone who has had two medically necessary surgeries, I would NEVER go through that just to make myself look a little bit "prettier." It does have risks and the recovery can suck and there's no guarantee that you're going to get the results you want from it.

Re: Cosmetic surgery

[(Anonymous)]

DA Yeah I've known people who went in for cosmetic surgery and had complications so I basically would never. I don't understand people who are going under the knife constantly just to alter their outer appearance (when they really don't need to.)

Re: Cosmetic surgery

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I feel like if someone feels that they really must have cosmetic surgery for whatever reason, that money would be better spent on seeing a therapist to dissect exactly why they feel that they need surgery in the first place.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

This is silly.

First of all, most people who get work done don't do it because they believe they need it; they do it because they want it. There's a big difference. Maybe to you it seems like one would have to be desperate in order to have work done, and maybe that's why you assume someone must be in need of therapy if they want to have something done. But to many people, having a cosmetic procedure is just not that big of a deal. They're not desperate. It's just something they've kind of wanted for a while, they have the money, they do their research, and they go for it.

Secondly, it's usually not much of a mystery why people (the ones who don't need it for health reasons) want to get cosmetic surgery. They want it because they want to be better looking, because society values good looks, and because certain aspects of life become easier when one is good looking. They want it because they want to feel desirable and they want to be desired. They think it would feel empowering, and they'd like that nagging sense of insecurity or dissatisfaction they have with a particular feature to go away. They don't need a therapist to tell them that, or to help them stop wanting to be good looking and desirable. Most people want to be good looking and desirable; that doesn't make them mentally ill or seriously troubled.

In an ideal world would people care less about appearance - both their own and others? Sure. But we're talking about a theoretical world here, and I would never expect someone to live aspirationally for a theoretical world some people wish could be real, if doing so means they have to forego things that would make them feel comfortable and happy in their real lives in the world as it actually is.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

But people rarely look better after plastic surgery, especially on their face. They always have a slight hint of uncanny valley about their looks.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

Do seriously believe that you are aware of even ten percent of the cosmetic surgery you've seen in your life? You're aware of the bad cosmetic work, and that's what makes it bad - that you can tell it's been done.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

But why would you even want it unless you felt there was something somehow inherently wrong or bad about your appearance? No one is perfect and no one's body is perfect. You look at even the most good-looking of celebrities and they have flaws and imperfections just like everyone else.

If you're so unhappy with a particular aspect of your appearance (and it's not something like a scar or a birthmark or a crooked nose from a broken nose that didn't heal right) that you want to get it changed, then yes, you do need to think about why that's the case, because getting it changed isn't going to get rid of that underlying insecurity about your appearance that makes you feel like there's something wrong in the first place. What are these people going to do when they start getting older and developing wrinkles and age spots and saggy boobs? Because those things happen.

Getting cosmetic surgery is just putting a bandaid on a larger underlying self-esteem issue that needs to be addressed or else it's going to keep rearing its head.