The reason I am asking is because I saw a lot of women who look great after surgeries and I see nothing wrong with them, but when I browse Reddit I see people hating on them so hard, why?
For me, I find it sad. There is so much pressure on people (especially women) to look a certain way. I find beauty in uniqueness. When a certain “look” becomes fashionable, you see a lot of people get the same face. Then, you see people get “addicted” to the surgeries, and end up looking totally alien.
I will tell you from personal experience it sure makes you feel a certain way when your insurance denies a treatment for a life-threatening condition and that same system says that unnecessary treatments are a fine use of resources.
have you tried being richer? i hear that drastically changes how your insurance feels about your operations.
Because your face says a lot about you. By modifying it, you’re lying.
Not my conviction, but that’s the subconscious reasoning.It often makes people look terrible
Yup. Lip injections? Quack quack.
Dunno… why do people hate fake money so much?
gee I don’t know, maybe it’s because these poster children are bonkers?
Probably a lot of noise coming from the incels.
It’s a very vain thing to waste your money on that most of us cannot afford.
I don’t blame people for getting it when they have exceptional flaws, but for normal people to get it is rather disgusting.
It’s self mutilation in response to a mental illness cause by societal pressures and misogyny. Chopping up your face to appear younger, should not be something anyone feels the need to do.
Not all cosmetic surgery is this. Helping burn victims or people who have suffered injuries, nothing wrong with any of that. There’s lots of legitimate reasons for cosmetic surgery to exist. But so much of it is the symptom of a broken society.
I’m a bit split on the whole topic.
The cultural reasons for why people get it done are bullshit. Maintaining youth, eliminating every single perceived flaw, and so on. Making people believe that they are worthless without their good looks. It’s a culture that isn’t healthy for our minds or bodies.
On the other hand, some of the insults levelled at people who have had cosmetic surgery are incredibly vicious and I don’t think it’s fair. Much of it is misogynistic when directed at women, and homophobic when directed at men. I believe everyone is entitled to full autonomy to do as they wish with their own body, as long as noone else is harmed by it.
I don’t hate the people who got cosmetic surgeries done on themselves, but I hate the culture that made them feel like they needed them. I also think it often just doesn’t look good.
Because it perpetuates the myth that you’re somehow a bad person if you show signs of aging.
…there is a myth like that?
Women and men are not supposed to hold the secret to beauty for infinite amount of years, for actors and actresses who are dependent on their looks, they would always have the choice to stop being dependent on their looks or improve their looks.
The choice is not related to any sort of culture, but the consumption choices of consumers.
If a person liked the look of another person in their 20s, they don’t need to like their looks forever in their 40s and 50s.
This feels like not really the reason.
Tell me, why is this “improving” their looks? You’ve just proven my point.
If I have a daughter I hope I can teach her to love and appreciate herself for who she is, be proud of herself and that everyone is beautiful and worthy, rather than to fit in with the stereotypical standards of beauty and if she doesn’t match that, she has to get surgery to do so.
On Lemmy and Reddit? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face
“Excessive” obvious cosmetic surgery became a status symbol, and then it got politicized.
I think it might be similar to CGI in movies: you do not notice those good ones, they blend in and look natural. But you DO notice those that went wrong or way too far.
Yep. The “Uncanny Valley” is deep, and it is not limited to robots and mannequins.
