Thanks to mass media and science progress, every day we are becoming more acquaintance with how plastic surgery has become an alternative to make people feel happier with their bodies.
We are living in a time in which is common to hear that a celebrity have had a nose job, a liposuction done, or the breasts enlarged in the case of women. They go through these surgeries in order to fit into the celebrity world: runways, movies, magazines, etc. Whatever the reason might be, they have become fashion icons, and plastic surgery with cosmetic purposes has become trendy.
Now, imagine a situation in real life: a girl doesn’t realized that her lips are too thin until she has her nose fixed, then she realizes about some other “defect”, and here is where the vicious cycle starts. As you might notice, there is a narrow boundary between what can be normal and what can detonate the dependence to these procedures.
But, what is about plastic surgery that some people happen to be addicted to it? Well, let us think! It gives people the opportunity to change almost any part of their body that is not pleasant for them; it is faster than doing exercise, letting alone the fact that there are some features that can’t be changed with any exercise or sport; and it completely can change a person’s life. Yet, can plastic surgery cannot change people’s feelings, manners, or personalities. Until what extent looking great has turned to be more important than being a great person from the inside out?
You should watch this video on how a celebrity has changed her face with plastic surgery
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmFayIPLa4
i think that plastic surgery is positive, but there should be limits, there is nothing wrong fixing something that may have always made you feel insecure, the problems is when this little "change" starts an obsession and makes you want to become somebody else. a psychological evaluation should be done before any of this kind of processes, but i think that doctors omit it because for them is more important to make money than to have a patient mentally healthy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Catalina. Nowadays, the outside is more important that the inside of a person. I know that there's nothing wrong with surgeries; in fact, if I had money, I would have a part of my body fixed. But the point here is how obsessed the society is with it. We can see that on TV with show business people. For me (at least) it is frustrating to think how they points out superficial and shallow thoughts showing that their ways of living are the best. It is really sad and I wonder myself how this have influenced in teenagers and adolescents. Is it a good influence or a bad influence? What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with both of you. Catalina got my point; there is nothing wrong with plastic surgery as long as you don’t get obsessed with it because it can change your body but not your personality. In my opinion, if you are infatuated by something it makes you change and you life as well.
ReplyDeleteNatalyn, I think that you have made an important contribution which is the influence of celebrities` plastic surgeries in teenagers. For that respect, I consider that it may be one of the many reason for which young people have self-esteem problems together with eating disorders. Isn’t it worrying?
I have mixed feeling about plastic surgeries. In a way they can be useful to fix grave deformities in people who have suffered from birth or as a result of an accident, so they can improve their quality of life. On the other hand, nowadays we are living in a world in which our image is considered more important than what we have in our souls, more important than our values and how smart we are, and these kind of procedures just help to pander to the idea that we have to look a certain way to be beautiful, but this image of what we consider beautiful or not beautiful doesn’t come from within us, it comes from what the media have imposed on us.Besides this topic directly affects women, who have historically been subjugated by men.Plastic surgeries are more common on women than on men, because we are always being judged by how we look, you can see how models on television have to look, they have to follow a certain body-type, that is supposed to be desirable for men, this strongly affects us as women to want to look like them, because we think that that’s how we should be, so we help continue the vicious cycle.
ReplyDeleteSociety in general forces you to fit in certain squema of beauty... starting by dyeing your hair, wearing coloured contact lens, make up, etc. So the plastic surgery is the natural next step. I'm not againist it, but you must be aware that it can be addictive, in the nmedia there are several cases of women who have had 30 or more surgeries in their bodies.
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